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Fly and his hot dog stand of doom, Spider-Man is told he needs a permit to operate a hot dog cart and is given a court date. Measles, but contracts the measles himself. Bittersweet Ending: A surprising amount of the Electric Company-based comics end this way.

Doom's Star Jaws attempting to eat the Earth.

Artistic License – Physics: The comic runs on this trope (even by the already incredibly-loose standards of regular comic books), leading to scenarios like the entire Grand Canyon being full to the brim with garbage, a toddler climbing the Statue of Liberty and reaching the tip of the torch, and Dr.

Adaptation Distillation: The backstories of guest characters and/or villains are compressed into a four-panel page with around six or seven lines of explanation, so Ice-Man and Storm are just explained to have been born with a strange/special power and Hank McCoy is just a scientist who was turned into the Beast because of an experiment gone wrong.

Adaptational Wimp: Almost every established Marvel villain suffers from this, but it can't get much worse for poor Thanos than to be arrested by the police after accidentally dropping the Cosmic Cube.

Adaptational Badass: Oft-mocked Spidey foe the Kangaroo beats Spidey up no less than three times in a 5-page story, only losing because he stops to explain his origin which lets Julie bonk him on the head.

This is not to be confused with either Spidey or Spidey and His Amazing Friends. The comic is notable for having the first appearance of a Spider-Woman in any Marvel continuity, with Valerie of the Electric Company taking the role years before Jessica Drew.Īlso, this is the series where the infamous Thanoscopter came from. Spidey Super Stories was made to appeal to younger readers, and is most often remembered for hilarious scenarios, derivative plots, and a slew of original characters, most of whom originated from the TV show. Several stories were based on segments from the show, but there were many original stories as well, using established Marvel villains and characters. Spidey Super Stories is what happens when you take the kid-friendly, often wacky adventures of Spider-Man from The Electric Company (1971) and turn them into printed material.

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