Spider-Woman

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caption=Jessica Drew, Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin and Charlotte Witter, along with Madame Web. Cover to "Spider-Woman" (v3) #1; art by Bart Sears.
code_name=Spider-Woman
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Marvel Spotlight" #32 (1977)
creators=Archie Goodwin
Sal Buscema
Jim Mooney
characters=Jessica Drew
Julia Carpenter
Mattie Franklin
Charlotte Witter
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"Spider-Woman" is the codename of several fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe. They are based on the character Spider-Man. An earlier "Spider-Woman" was published by Harry "A" Chesler Comics in 1944; a non-superpowered crime-fighter named Helen Goddard, she made her first and only appearance in the Golden Age comic book "Major Victory #1".Another Spiderwoman was in "Spidey Super Stories" #11 (story 3), although that is not official canon.

pider-Women

* Jessica Drew, the original and current Spider-Woman. She starred in her own animated TV series in 1979.
* Julia Carpenter, a former Avengers member, now called "Arachne" and a member of Omega Flight.
* Mattie Franklin, who briefly impersonated Spider-Man before receiving her own short-lived comic series was active during the 2007 "Loners" miniseries.
* Charlotte Witter, the only villain to use the name.

Alternate continuity

*Prior to Jessica Drew's debut, Valerie the Librarian became Spider-Woman in "Spidey Super Stories" #11 (August 1975). She had no superpowers.
* A "Spider-Woman" animated series was based on the Jessica Drew version.
* Spider-Woman (Mary Jane Watson), ninja of the Spider-clan, is an alternate version of the character in the Marvel Mangaverse reality.
* Another version of Mary Jane as Spider-Woman can be found in the "Exiles" series.
* In MC2 continuity, Jessica Drew has never regained her powers and thus did not return to being Spider-Woman.
* In the comic book "Ultimate Spider-Man", an Ultimate Spider-Woman debuted in issue #98, but was not given the name "Spider-Woman" until issue #102. Though her creators named her Jessica Drew, she is a female clone of Peter Parker, and retains all of his memories up until the end of the Carnage storyline.

ee also

*Spider-Girl (May Parker), daughter of Spider-Man in an alternate future
*Madame Web (Cassandra Webb), grandmother of Charlotte Witter

More female Marvel characters with spider powers/affiliations

*Agony
*Araña (Anya Corazon)
*Black Widow
*Scream
*She-Venom
*Tarantula (Maria Vasquez)

External links

* [http://marvel.com/universe/Spider-Woman Spider-Woman on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki]
* at the Marvel Database Project