For today’s post we have another entry in the occasional
series where I endeavour to highlight the visual or narrative symmetry between the Spider-Man and Spider-Girl comics.
For this entry of Spider-Symmetry,
we are taking a look at a silver age era comic classic and a modern era classic.
This instalment, we must credit the amazing penciller and Spider-Man
co-creator Steve
Ditko and MC2 and Spider-Girl co-creator, artist
extraordinaire and friendly fella, Ron
Frenz, but we have a few stops on the way…
First up we have the iconic cover to 1964’s Amazing
Spider-Man #19 by sturdy Steve Ditko, featuring our webbed wonder, Spider-Man
swinging directly toward the reader with various familiar faces surrounding him
in a stylized web. Seriously, this guy was talented.
It would be remiss of me not to mention the amusing Spider-Man
cameo from the pages of Fantastic Four Annual #3 released in 1965.
I’ll let it speak for itself.
For the generations of Spidey fans who know the 1967
Spider-Man cartoon will no doubt recognize this pose, as it (along with
many other poses) was ‘recycled’ for various episodes’ swinging segments.
Now, here’s the cover to Amazing Spider-Man #68 by jazzy
John Romita Senior, coincidentally released in 1968, which
features a similarly swinging Spider-Man albeit rendered very much in
the style of Mr. Romita.
One more time, we have the original Steve Ditko pose
brought back and referenced in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #261 by
artist and major Marvel fanboy Ron Frenz.
Coming full circle, the cover to Spider-Girl #42
pencilled by Ron Frenz and released in 2002 demonstrates a
combination of both Mr. Ditko and Mr. Romita’s cover poses and
art styles, no doubt influenced or informed by Mr Frenz’s own
affection
for the 60’s Spider-Man animation.
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Once again, it’s wonderful reverence and references like
this that really make the MC2 feel familiar and inclusive of the whole
history of the Spidey mythos.
Until I make a post about the 70’s series, I remain
frogoat