Welcome to the 917th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our second legend, learn whether Spider-Girl’s debut in the pages of What If…? was intended as a “backdoor pilot” launch for the character. A backdoor pilot is when an episode of a TV series is really secretly a pilot for a whole OTHER series that would spin off from the main series (the theory being that if you disguise it as a regular episode of a popular series, people will be more likely to watch it and then hopefully get invested in the new character/situation that you introduce in the episode). A notable comic book-related back door pilot would be “Fear” from Super Friends which was meant to serve as a back door pilot for a proposed new Batman TV series. I have a whole feature spotlighting backdoor TV pilots.As introduced in December 1997’s What If…? #105 (which came out the same month as Kurt Busiek and George Perez’s Avengers #1, making that a difficult Look Back choice. I went with Avengers #1), May “Mayday” Parker was the daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson-Parker (the concept of the What If…? was “What if Peter and Mary Jane’s daughter had not died?,” referencing an abandoned plot from the late 1990s about Peter and Mary Jane having a kid). Ron Frenz and Bill Sienkiwiecz were the art team on that initial issue.
Welcome to the 917th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our second legend, learn whether Spider-Girl’s debut in the pages of What If…? was intended as a “backdoor pilot” launch for the character.
A backdoor pilot is when an episode of a TV series is really secretly a pilot for a whole OTHER series that would spin off from the main series (the theory being that if you disguise it as a regular episode of a popular series, people will be more likely to watch it and then hopefully get invested in the new character/situation that you introduce in the episode). A notable comic book-related back door pilot would be “Fear” from Super Friends which was meant to serve as a back door pilot for a proposed new Batman TV series. I have a whole feature spotlighting backdoor TV pilots.
As introduced in December 1997’s What If…? #105 (which came out the same month as Kurt Busiek and George Perez’s Avengers #1, making that a difficult Look Back choice. I went with Avengers #1), May “Mayday” Parker was the daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson-Parker (the concept of the What If…? was “What if Peter and Mary Jane’s daughter had not died?,” referencing an abandoned plot from the late 1990s about Peter and Mary Jane having a kid). Ron Frenz and Bill Sienkiwiecz were the art team on that initial issue.
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