Spider-man Crawlspace Podcast

The yearly tradition continues where we test everyone's Spider-Knowledge. It's a fun show to play along with at home. Each question is worth five points and the categories this year include: *Team Up *Bad Villains *Potpourri *Chicks *The Hardy Files *Hold the Peter Please *Daily Bugle *Besties

JR takes us back to November 1968 for this episode of Spider-History. During this month Amazing Spider-Man #66 came out. Also the Spectacular Spider-Man magazine #2 came out. This often over-looked classic has one of the best Norman Osborn/ Green Goblin stories in it. And it has a beautiful cover that was painted by John Romita. As if that was not enough, it also holds a special place in JRs heart, as it sealed his life-long love for the character with him.

The Spider-Panel tackles 11 Spider-Satellite comics in this episode. Spider-Man 2099 #1, 2-George Secret Wars # 6-Mike Spider-Island #4, 5-Mike Spider-Verse # 5-Zach Web Warriors #1-Zach Spider-Gwen #1, #2-Ashley Carnage # 1-Brad All New, All Different Avengers-#1-Brad

The gang tackles Spider-News for the month. Here are our topics. *Tom Holland has a familiar haircut for his appearance as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War *Spider-Costume in the movie will have comic inspired back spider. *Dan Slott's will write Spider-Man until he's fired. *Axel Alonso compares Dan Slot to Michael Jordan *Two new spider species named after Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield *Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone break up *Spider-Tattoo fail *Singer Rod Stewart can't spell Spider-Man *Actor Bruce Campbell says Macho Man was Savage in the sheets with his girlfriend. This topic is hillarious. *Spider-Mable *Spider-Man saves couple from burning car *62 Year old man dressed as Spidey breaks up a riot. *Steve Ditko's 88th birthday

The gang tackles reviewing the fourth attempt to relaunch Amazing Spider-Man in his 50 year history. In this podcast we review: *Amazing Spider-Man (Vol 4) #1 *Amazing Spider-Man (Vol 4) #2 *Amazing Spider-Man (Vol 4) #3

George takes us back to 1982 for this Friday Night Fight for November. We take a look at Peter Parker: Spectacular Spider-Man # 70. Spidey takes on Silvermane in a new robotic body. New kids on the block Cloak and Dagger also join into the fight.

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.