Canon immigrants are plentiful, with new ones coming all the time. That's the whole premise of this blog, after all. But for every one that gets media attention, three or four slip under the radar. Which is how it came to pass that I'm posting a new Spider-Verse spotlight YEARS after that event.
For those who don't know, Spider-Verse was an event that had "every" version of Spider-Man teaming up for reasons that aren't really important. I put "every" in quotes because there were a couple versions that were left out for legal reasons, and a couple more that just didn't appear. But overall it was surprisingly thorough, as this entry can attest.
I'm not sure we realize how lucky we have it as comic book fans these days. Just look at toylines like Hot Toys are Figuarts, which give us hyper-poseable action figures that look exactly like the character they're supposed to be, even if that character is from a live action movie. If you buy a Hot Toys Avengers: Infinity War Captain America figure, I hope you like Chris Evans's face because you're getting Chris Evans's face. It's like they shrunk him down and encased him in plastic.
But it wasn't always that way. Accuracy was more a suggestion than anything, and you need look no further than this Spider-Man Halloween costume to see the results.
This costume is from 1963 and made by a company called Ben Cooper. And this is surprisingly one of the more accurate ones of the era. As you can see from the below catalog, they were still selling this costume as late as 1986, and the general style of costumes - at least from this company - had not really improved in those 20 years.
Surely no one would be upset if this costume stayed in the past where it belonged, but when Spider-Verse said "every Spider-Man ever", they (mostly) meant it! So when we get a shot of the Spider-Army in Spider-Verse #2 (January 2015), there he is, in the bottom left corner:
The coloring isn't completely on-model, but it's closer to the Halloween costume than the Halloween costume is to the original character.
OMG! I had that costume! It would've been the early 1970s, because I became a fan thru the Electric Company when I was babby
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