Spider-Girl
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Template:Superherobox Spider-Girl (May "Mayday" Parker) is a comic book superheroine in an alternate future of the Marvel Comics universe. She was created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz as a spin-off of the Spider-Man character, and first appeared in What If volume 2 #105, later getting her own ongoing comic book which has become the longest-running superhero book with a lead female character ever published by Marvel, partly due to the fan backlash which has caused them to recant several cancellation attempts.
The story concerns Mayday Parker, the future offspring of Peter and Mary Jane Parker, who was born a few years before Peter lost a leg and was forced to retire following the horrific final conflict with the Green Goblin. (It's implied that Peter was responsible for the Goblin's death but this has never been confirmed.) For many years the duo chose to keep their past from Mayday and kept their fingers crossed she wouldn't develop powers of her own.
Despite her parents' hopes, May began developing versions of her father's Spider-powers when she was 15. At the same time, Normie Osborn (Green Goblin's grandson) set out to restore the family name (as he saw it). Mayday donned the Ben Reilly Spider costume to stop him and soon took to crime fighting, at first hindered, then helped, by her worried parents.
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See also
External links
- Spider-Girl Message Board (http://www.comicboards.com/spidergirl)
- Spider-girl MC2 Universe (http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/mc2.html)
- Interview with Tom DeFalco on Spider-Girl and Last Hero Standing (http://www.newsarama.com/forums/printthread.php?threadid=31503)
- Interview with the whole creative team (http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=5174)
Bibliography
- What If (volume 2) #105 (Marvel Comics, February 1998)
- Spider-Girl #0-present, (Marvel Comics, October 1998 - present)
- Spider-Girl #½ (Marvel Comics/Wizard Entertainment, 1999)
- Spider-Girl Annual 1999 (Marvel Comics, 1999)