Jim Shooter reveals the secret origin of Spider-Man’s marriage:
Toward the end, someone in the back asked Stan [Lee] if he was ever going to have Spider-Man get married. A lot of people in the crowd voiced support.Stan said that it was up to “Marvel’s entire editor,” and right then, right there in front of all those people, Stan asked me if I would allow Spider-Man to get married.Well, I may have been the “entire editor” but anything to do with the comics that Stan wanted I would have cheerfully done.
Well, no wonder everyone at Marvel wanted to undo it before too long, if it was basically just the result of a dodged question at a convention…
September 23rd, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Or you could say that marriage was a great responsibility that nobody at Marvel knew how to have Parker bear. Disposable girlfriends aren’t responsibilities.
SRS