33 Years of Spider-Girls and Spider-Women

Spider-Girl #1 comes out this week–the first issue of an ongoing series by Paul Tobin and Clayton Henry, starring Anya Corazon, the young superheroine formerly known as Araña. But she’s far from the first woman to wear a variation on Spider-Man’s costume. Here’s a quick history of the half-dozen-or-so Spider-Women and Spider-Girls who’ve appeared over the past few decades.


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