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.
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