For today’s super-quick post we have another entry in the
shamelessly swiped Spider-Symmetry series. Ron Frenz presents Spider-Symmetry:
Spider-Man ’67 and Spider-Girl.
Spider-Girl and MC2 co-creator and artist extraordinaire
Ron Frenz is an admitted lifelong fan of the original 1967 Spider-Man
cartoon and he once again took the opportunity to slip several direct
references into Amazing Spider-Girl. I’ll let Ron’s own Facebook
post
provide the explanation:
99% Inspiration!
Remember the 1967 Spider-man cartoon? Every frame is
pretty much burned into my frontal lobe!
As the show changed production teams they would
spend(waste?) several minutes of any given episode with a traveling montage of
the web-spinner web-swinging through the concrete canyons of New York City
accompanied by some of the coolest soundtrack music known to man IMHO!
We've spoken before of my cartoon-addled brain and my
tendency to indulge it in my comics work, well here's another example from the
pages of The Amazing Spider-Girl!
Mayday Parker is desperately searching the city for her
missing Father and infant Brother who have been taken by Carnage! (I know!)
Inks by Mr.Sal Buscema, colors by Gotham, letters by
Mr.Dave Sharpe and words by The Legendary Tom
DeFalco!
This calls for a traveling montage! Cue the music!!
For anyone wondering, the issue referenced is Amazing
Spider-Girl #11 and an example of previous ’67 homage would be La
Fantome aka Staci
Smythe. Mr Frenz has even talked about some unused concepts such
as a Halloween story idea ‘Night
of Evil’.
Here’s the page and referenced shots for comparison:
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