Welcome to the 921st installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the second legend of this installment, we take a look at the origins of the Slingers, and whether they were always intended to spin out of Spider-Man’s “Identity Crisis.”One of the interesting things about following comic book fandom for long enough is that you start to become somewhat attuned to the “standard” way of doing things, whether it is actually the intention at the time or not. For instance, in 1993, DC launched the massive Knightfall crossover, where Batman was replaced by Jean-Paul Valley. At the end of the long story the following year (following KnightQuest and KnightsEnd), Batman was back, and Jean-Paul Valley received his own spinoff series as Azrael. During that same period, DC released the Reign of the Superman crossover, introducing four possible “new” Supermen, including a teenage clone of Superman that everyone called “Superboy” and an armored former weapons-maker named John Henry Irons that people referred to simply as “Steel.” At the end of the event, Superman returned, and Superboy and Steel both received spinoff series.One of the things that Ralph Macchio, the head editor of the Spider-Man office in the late 1990s, felt that Spider-Man had lost over the years was that he was no longer seen as an outsider by the world. The concept of the “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” was that the name was somewhat ironic, pointing out that no one (not the police and not the average New York citizen) really trusted Spidey, so he would retort with humor and stuff like leaving notes signed “your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.” However, over time, that’s basically what happened to Spider-Man. He really WAS now the “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” to a lot of people. Macchio did not like that development, so he challenged his writers to change things around and the thing that writers Tom DeFalco, Todd Dezago, J.M. DeMatteis and Howard Mackie settled on was “Spider Hunt.”
Welcome to the 921st installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the second legend of this installment, we take a look at the origins of the Slingers, and whether they were always intended to spin out of Spider-Man’s “Identity Crisis.”
One of the interesting things about following comic book fandom for long enough is that you start to become somewhat attuned to the “standard” way of doing things, whether it is actually the intention at the time or not. For instance, in 1993, DC launched the massive Knightfall crossover, where Batman was replaced by Jean-Paul Valley. At the end of the long story the following year (following KnightQuest and KnightsEnd), Batman was back, and Jean-Paul Valley received his own spinoff series as Azrael. During that same period, DC released the Reign of the Superman crossover, introducing four possible “new” Supermen, including a teenage clone of Superman that everyone called “Superboy” and an armored former weapons-maker named John Henry Irons that people referred to simply as “Steel.” At the end of the event, Superman returned, and Superboy and Steel both received spinoff series.
One of the things that Ralph Macchio, the head editor of the Spider-Man office in the late 1990s, felt that Spider-Man had lost over the years was that he was no longer seen as an outsider by the world. The concept of the “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” was that the name was somewhat ironic, pointing out that no one (not the police and not the average New York citizen) really trusted Spidey, so he would retort with humor and stuff like leaving notes signed “your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.” However, over time, that’s basically what happened to Spider-Man. He really WAS now the “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” to a lot of people. Macchio did not like that development, so he challenged his writers to change things around and the thing that writers Tom DeFalco, Todd Dezago, J.M. DeMatteis and Howard Mackie settled on was “Spider Hunt.”
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