This is the character that got me interested in comics. My brother and I would go to the used book store near our home, and there we discovered the comic books for $.75 section. And I saw the Spiderwoman limited series, and thought it was interesting, as it actually featured a female character as the lead. So I bought issue number three, love it, and went back and bought the other three parts. Then I set about collecting everything with her in it. Avengers West Coast (which I own just about every issue since she joined) and Force Works. And now, as far as I can tell, she's in comic limbo. Her costume was cool, a sort of flashback to the symbiote Spiderman look, (factoid: technically her costume inspired the symbiote costume for Spiderman, and not the other way around) and she had spiderpowers too. Strength, speed, agility, walking on walls-just like Spiderman. But she had something else too-mental webs that she could create to snare enemies and swing on if she needed. And the woman behind the mask was very different from your average herione too. She's a divorced mother with a younger daughter, and she has to juggle her carreer with the Avengers with her responsibilities as a mother. It was different, to say the least. I watched the Marvel Action Hour's Iron Man just because she was on it. Oh, yeah, and she's the first action figure I ever bought too.
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Real Name: Julia Carpender First Appearance: secret Wars #7 Team Affiliation: Last I heard...Force Works Other Teams: Freedom Force, Avengers West Coast Powers: agility, superstrength, mental webs, sticks to walls
And according to my Marvel Metal card for 1995, she has the following: |
Where to find her: Avengers West Coast: Issues Spiderwoman Limited Series: Issues One to Four Force Works: Issues One to Twenty-two Secret Defenders: #1-3 and 20-21
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From an Avengers West Coast cover, one of the few that actually has Spiderwoman featured so promanantly |
Marvel Masterpieces card 1994 | Marvel Metal card 1995 |