Spider-Man Crawlspace Podcast

I had a chance to visit the Wizard World Tulsa Comic Con and interview one of my heroes. Jim Shooter was the Editor in Chief of Marvel Comics during the 1970s and 1980s. He also wrote Secret Wars and helped usher in a great era of comics. He also shares a fun Steve Ditko story.

JR takes us back to October 1999 with this episode of Spider-History. Sorry for the lack of podcasts this month. My computer blew up after several years. Luckily I was able to recover all the shows we already had in the can. In this episode JR tackles: *Amazing Spider-Man (Vol 2) #10 *Peter Parker: Spider-Man # (Vol 2) #10 *Spider-Man: Chapter One # 12 *Webspinners # 10

George takes us back to 1976 for this Friday Night Fight. Spidey takes on the Human Fly in the Amazing Spider-Man Annual #10. Will the fly get caught in the web?

JR takes us back to September 1996 for this month's Spider-History. He takes a look at the following books. *Amazing Spider-Man #415 *Sensational Spider-Man # 8 *Spectacular Spider-Man #238 *Spider-Man # 72 *Untold Tales of Spider-Man # 13

Here are the news topics we tackle in this episode of Spider-News. *MJ and Tony Stark a couple?-George *New Gwenpool title-JR *Bagley and Romita Jr get tense-BD *Marvel Creative Committee ends-Mike *Sha Sha Returns-Zach *Spidey as a Pansexual? -Mike *Garfield on loosing Spidey-Ashley *Spidey moves into the Baxter Building-Ashley *Carnage tells man to burn down house-Zach *Itune reviews

The gang tackles the following reviews in this episode. *Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows # 3 *Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows # 4 *Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows # 5 *Amazing Spider-Man # 20.1

We head back to 1967 for this classic fight from Amazing Spider-Man #49. Spidey isn't at 100 % but that doesn't stop him from taking on Kraven and Blackie Drago Vulture. Join George and Brad as they break down this classic.

We tackle 18 reviews in this episode of Spider-Satellites. It's a supersized episode and clocks in at a little over two hours. Here are the books that we tackle. Deapool's Secret Wars # 1,2,3,4-BD Spider-Island # 1,2,3-Mike Spider-Verse #2,3,4-Zach Ultimate End # 2,3,4-Mike Spider-Gwen #5-Ashley Silk # 5,6,7-Ashley Guardians Team Up #9-Ashley

Brad, George and JR tackle some Spider-News items in this episode. Topics include: *Stan Lee is getting sued by his assistant *Spider-Man Movie news *Spider-Man Director Jon Watts is a Spidey fan. *Andrew Garfield recommends Tom Holland for the job. *Spider-Man fight in Times Square *A Guinness world record has been set with Spider-Men *Odd Ebay Spidey auctions

We answer your dozens of message board questions on this episode. Here are some highlights: *Why haven't we seen a Kraven's Last Hunt animated movie? *Favorite Marvel run? *Ashley gives advice on how to cosplay and make your own costume *Who would win Lou Ferrigno Hulk or Jason Vorhees? *Michael Bailey discusses what Superman writer would be good on Spider-Man.

Back in August 2006 we started the Spider-Man Crawlspace podcast. JR wasn't on that first episode, he joined on the third episode. So it's nine years in the making, but you can now hear what he thought of Spider-Man unmasking during Civil War. Here are the books he takes a look at. *Amazing Spider-Man#533 Sensational Spider-Man#27 Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man#9 Civil War #2 Front line #1-2

In this special episode we take a look at race and Spider-Man. Our friend Donovan Morgan Grant returns for this episode to join in the discussion with Brad and George. There are some several topics we discuss in this episode. Those include: *Is it racist to want to keep Spider-Man the same race? *Why Spider-Man? Why not change the race of Superman or Batman? *Why does changing the race of the Kingpin or Heimdall seem ok, but not Spidey? *People freaked out about changing the Human Torch's race. Why? *Can you change the race of Luke Cage or Black Panther? Why not? *Why have Miles in the same universe as Spidey? *Stan Lee says he doesn't want to change Spidey's race, who are we to argue?

This month's Friday Night Fight is an epic one. It's the first fight between the Kingpin and Spider-Man. George takes a look back at Amazing Spider-Man # 51 and #52 from 1967.

In this episode we read your iTunes reviews and answer your dozens of message board questions. Highlights include: *How much longer can Spider-Gwen sales outsell Amazing Spider-Man? *Would you read a Mary Jane ongoing? *Is teaming Spider-Man up with Deadpool a good thing? Can it be an ongoing? *Best villain for Marvel Spider-Man villain? *Spider-Retcon we enjoyed.

We tackle a months worth of news in this episode. Highlights include: *Tom Holland cast as Spider-Man *Marissa Tomei cast as Aunt May *New Spidey book and other San Diego Comic Con News *New Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #1 with Parker Industries going global *Stan Lee on Spider-Man's race *Supreme Court works Spider-Man into law? *Webb and Raimi talk new Spider-Man movie.

JR takes us back to July 1995 for this month in Spider-History. We're very much into the Clone Saga with this one. JR looks at the following issues. *Web of Spider-Man # 126 *Amazing Spider-Man #403 *Spider-Man # 60 *Spectacular Spider-Man #226

In this episode we review *Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows 2 is reviewed by JR *Amazing Spider-Man 19.1 is reviewed by Mike

We wrap up our long two part Spider-Satellite reviews. Here are the reviews we tackle in this episode. Spider-Verse # 1 reviewed by Zach Ultimate End # 1-reviewed by Brad Secret Wars 2099 # 1-reviewed by Brad Spider-Gwen # 2, # 3, #4-reviewed by Ashley Silk #2, #3, #4-reviewed by Ashley Free Comic Book Day All New Avengers # 1-reviewed by Zach

We catch up with a bunch of reviews of Spider-Satellite titles. Here are the books we review. Miles Morales # 11, 12-Zach Spider-Man 2099 # 10, 11, 12-George Spider-Man Special #1-Mike Captain America Special #1-Mike Inhumans Special # 1- Mike Spider-Man and The X-Men # 4, 5, 6-Brad Secret Wars #1, 3-Mike

We celebrate George's birthday by bringing you this Friday Night Fight for July. In this fight Luke Cage takes on Spidey after he just lost Gwen Stacy. We're looking at Amazing Spider-Man # 123 in all its 1970's glory.

We tackle a lot of Spider-News in this episode. Here are our topics. Dan Slott Leaving? -George Ultimate Spider-Man Gets Fourth Season-George Spider-Actors Narrowed Down-JR Spider-Gwen movie? -Ashley Matthew Maconaughy as Norman? -JR New Spider-Man Movie title-Ashley Sony Concerns about ASM2-George New Spider-Man animated Cartoon-JR Mike's roundup of Movie wiki leaks Spinoffs, Sinister Six, Sequels Feige's ASM 2 notes-George

JR takes us back 25 years ago for this months Spider-history. We go back to June 1990. JR looks at *Amazing Spider-Man # 333 *Spectacular Spider-Man # 165 *Web of Spider-Man #65 *Avengers #318

This is a giant sized episode where we catch up on all the Amazing Spider-Man issues for the last few months. Here's what we're tackling. Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows # 1 is reviewed by JR Amazing Spider-Man #17 is reviewed by Ashley Amazing Spider-Man #18 is reviewed by Mike Amazing Spider-Man # 16.1 is reviewed by George Amazing Spider-Man # 17.1 is reviewed by Mike Amazing Spider-Man # 18.1 is reviewed by Ashley

Who's ready for a Friday Night Fight with the Jack O'Lantern? In this classic fight from Amazing Spider-Man # 254 Spidey takes on another villain who uses pumpkins in his arsenal. This fight even crashes into a toy store. Who wins this one?

The podcast returns with a supersized episode. This one runs more than two hours. Highlights include: *Itune reviews *How to design the perfect comic book man cave *Thoughts on Avengers: Age of Ultron *Thoughts on the Netflix Daredevil show and how Spidey should show up. *Michael Bailey discusses a black Superman. *Is Secret Wars making us buy less comics? *Brad learns to never mispronounce Dr. Stranges girlfreind Clea. It is Clea-UH. *Disucssion of Dan Slotts thoughts on Tom Defalco ruining Mary Janes character.

JR takes us back to April 1973 for this month's Spider-History. Granted it's a day late to technically be called April. In this episode JR takes a look at *Amazing Spider-Man 119 *Marvel Team Up 8 which has the first appearance of the Man Killer. Yeah, she hates dudes. Brad also gives an update about the hiatus of the podcast for April and May.

On this last day of March we take a look at JR's Spider-History and travel back to March 1985. JR takes a look at *Amazing Spider-Man # 262 *Spectacular Spider-Man # 100 *Secret Wars # 11 *Uncanny X-Men # 191

George, Zach, Ashley and Brad take on 17 Spider-Satellite titles. Here are the issues covered. X-Factor # 20 Miles #9 and #10 Guardians # 23 and # 24 Silk # 1 All New Ultimates # 12 Spider-Verse # 2 Spider-Man 2099 # 8 and 9 Scarlet Spiders # 3 Spider-Woman # 3 and #4 Spider-Gwen # 1 Spider-Man and X-men # 2 and #3 Howard the Duck # 1

In this month's Friday Night Fight we take you back to a great Hobgoblin fight from 1986. Hobgoblin gives just as good as he gets in this fight with Spider-Man. Who comes out on top and who gets framed? Take a listen to the fun play-by-play with Brad and George.

The Spider-Panel tackles your dozens of message board questions. Highlights include: *What Marvel universe characters would you cast in a Cannonball Run remake? *What new creative team would you put on a Spider-Girl title? *What's the best collected edition of Spider-Man? *Compare the 1999 Spider-Man reboot versus the 2014 one. *What happened to Ollie Osnick? *Who should replace Dan Slott on ASM?

The Spider-Panel reviews three issues of the Amazing Spider-Man comic in this episode. We tackle *ASM # 14 *ASM # 15 *ASM # 16

Here are the topics discussed in this episode of Spider-News: *Slott insults KFC a Marvel advertiser *A man gets a tattoo of a web shooter on his wrist *Should there be three different types of Spider-Movies *Sony Selling it's parts. FYI, this podcast was recorded in early February, so it was before the Marvel/ Sony team up news broke *How much protein should Spider-Man eat to have organic web shooters? *End of the Ultimate Universe? *Spider-Man 2099 ending? *Spider-Man love letter statue *Spider-Man needs a roomate? *Secret Wars Battleworlds *Ditko explains why he left Spidey?

George takes us back to one of the best Spider-Fights of all time. We head back to 1982 for this epic fight with the Juggernaut from Amazing Spider-Man # 229 and #230.

JR takes us back 13 years and looks at February 2002 for this episode of Spider-History. JR looks at the following issues: *Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 # 38 *Peter Parker:Spider-Man # 38 *Spider-Man: Tangled Web # 9

The Spider-panel assembles for a discussion of Sony and Marvel coming to an agreement to use Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Topics we discuss: *Thoughts on a new Spider-Man movie in 2017 *Thoughts on Andrew Garfield not returning *Should Spider-Man be back in high school? *How should Spider-Man appear in Captain America: Civil War and Avengers 3? *Should Marvel use Miles Morales instead of Peter Parker? *What Marvel character are we most excited to see interact with Spider-Man? *Should Spidey have a love interest in the new film and the Avengers films? *We also answer your dozens of message board questions about the new film series.

In this podcast the Spider-Panel reviews Amazing Spider-Man Vol 3 number 13. We also read your iTunes reviews from around the world.

We tackle 18 reviews in this episode of Spider-Satellites. Brad, George, Zach and Mike divvy up the spider-books in this episode. Here are the books that are reviewed. X-Men 34 Scarlet Spiders#2 Spiderverse Team Up#2 and 3 Hobgoblin #3 Axis #8 Spider Woman #2 Carnage #3 Spider-Man 2099 #7 Captain America and The Avengers # 3 Miles Morales # 7 and 8 Inhuman # 10 Guardians Of the Galaxy# 22 Spider-Man and The X-Men # 1 All New Ultimates # 10 and 11 Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1

We answer your dozens of message board questions in this episode include. *Have you ever dressed up as a Spider-Man character before? *If you could go back and kill someone besides Gwen in Amazing Spider-Man # 121, who would it be? *What is a good run of Spider-Man post 1990? *What are our favorite non-Mary Jane female moments in Spider-Man's history?

JR takes us back to January 1996 to review a record number of titles that came out this month 19 years ago. JR reviews * Sensational Spider-Man # 0 *Amazing Spider-Man # 407 *Spider-Man # 64 *Spectacular Spider-Man # 230 *Spider-Man Unlimited #11 *Web of Scarlet Spider # 3 *Spider-Man: Final Adventure #2 *Untold Tales of Spider-Man # 5 The episode begins with a bit of a follow up to a news topic we discussed earlier this month. Eddie DeAngelini is our guest and he discusses selling his Amazing Spider-Man collection to buy a portion of Hi De Ho Comics. JR took him to task a bit in episode # 354 and Eddie has a rebuttal.

In our first Friday Night Fight of 2015 we head back to a classic 1967 battle. Spider-Man takes on a new villain named the Shocker. We take a look at Amazing Spider-Man #46. Spidey takes on this new villain with literally one hand. Does he come out on top?

We tackle a lot of news this month. Here are our topics. *Sony leaks and Spider-rumors *Dan Slott explains Silk's popularity. *Selling a complete Amazing Spider-Man collection to own a comic shop. *Director Sam Raimi regrets making Spider-Man 3 movie. *Gerry Conway returns to write Spidey. *Drake Bell breaks wrist. *Lost Erik Larsen art. *Spider-Girl revival *Steve Ditko news

In this episode we review three episodes from the Ultimate Spider-Man: Webbed Warriors Show. We review: Season 3 Episode # 8 New Warriors Season 3 Episode # 21 Halloween Night at the Museum Season 3 Episode # 22 A Nightmare On Christmas

We answer your dozens of message board questions from December in this episode. Highlights include: *Does the Daily Bugle have any credibility anymore? *Favorite heroes besides Spider-Man? *What makes an "A" list villain? *We learn more about Ashley's favorite Spider-Villains *Godzilla vs Stegron? Who wins? *If you could change one Spider-storyline besides One More Day, what would it be? *George's Top 5 Spider-stories of all time *Would Slott's stories work better in the 1970s?

The Spider-Panel is back for it's first review of 2015. We tackle reviews of *Amazing Spider-Man 11 *Amazing Spider-Man 12

We had a chance to interview legendary Spider-Man artist Mark Bagley at the Wizard World Tulsa Comic Con. He talks about his love of Spider-Man, his work on Amazing Spider-Man in the 1990's, and returning to pencil him in Ultimate Spider-Man. We also discuss his dislike of clones. During the interview we also answer your dozens of message board questions. It's a fun interview and a nice way to celebrate our 350th episode.

The Spider-Gang tackles 13 different Spider-Satellite reviews. Join Brad, George, Ashley and Zach as they plow through the following issues: X-Men 33 Scarlet Spiders#1 Spiderverse #1 Spiderverse team up#1 Fantastic Four#12 Hobgoblin #2 Axis #5 Spider Woman #1 Carnage #1 and #2 Superior Foes #17 New Warriors #12 Spider-Man 2099 #6 This is a long two hour podcast, but we cover a lot of material.

We're wrapping up the last Friday Night Fight of 2014 with a fun one. Stegron and the Lizard take on Spider-Man. There's a meat gun involved and two tails swinging for Spidey's head. Who comes out on top? We take a look at Amazing Spider-Man # 165 and #166.

The Spider-panel tackles two issues on this podcast. We review: *Amazing Spider-Man # 9 *Amazing Spider-Man # 10 *These are the first two parts of Spider-Verse. *We have a new female panelist on the show. What does Ashley think of Silk? *What is plot armor?

Merry Christmas everyone! In this episode the Spider-panel exchanges virtual spider-gifts. Who knew there were so many off the wall gifts to get? Join Brad, JR, George, Mike and Ashley. You'll never guess some of the things they gave each other with a spider on it. This is a very fun episode.

We tackle the latest in Spider-News in this episode. Here are our talking points. *We introduce Ashley to the show. She's the newest member of the Spider-Panel. *Itune reviews *Ultimate Spider-Man Cartoon ending? *Everything ends with Secret Wars? *$90 for a Black Suited Secret Wars Spider-Man figure *Scientific Spider-gloves *Spidey has the most licensing profits of any superhero *Sony hacked and discuss Spider-Movies *Aunt May movie?