The first portrayed Spider-Girl, Mayday Parker, first appeared in a one-shot story in the ongoing series What If. Following positive fan response to the concept, Spider-Girl and two other series (A-Next and J2) set in the same alternate future universe were launched under the MC2 imprint with The Amazing Spider-Girl and The Spectacular Spider-Girl.[1][2] On November 8, 2008, Marvel EIC Joe Quesada confirmed that Spider-Girl would become a feature in the monthly anthology magazine Amazing Spider-Man Family. The series would replace the feature "Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man", written by DeFalco, which served as a prequel series to the Spider-Girl universe.[3] The title would continue to be simultaneously published in paper form within Amazing Spider-Man Family. Amazing Spider-Man Family #5 (published April 2009) through #8 (July 2009) contained these Spider-Girl stories until the title's cancellation with issue #8, followed by one last Spider-Girl tale, Spider-Girl: The End, in which fellow Spider-Girl April Parker is killed.
In November 2010, a new Spider-Girl series was launched that was unconnected to the MC2 universe. The MC2 Spider-Girl title was cancelled, having surpassed publisher expectations for longevity. The new series featured a new character, Anya Corazon, whose adventures occurred on Earth 616. The series was canceled after only eight issues. No official reason was given for the cancellation. This character returned for a Spider-Island limited series.[4]
The character who would in 2023 become the second Earth-616 Spider-Girl was introduced in Avenging Spider-Man #16 (January 2013),[5] before returning a decade later in X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #69 (January 2023) under the name "Gwen Warren", assuming the mantle of Spider-Girl as a member of the X-Men.
Spider-Boy vol. 2 #12 (October 2024) introduced the supervillain Funhouse (Makawalu "Maka" Akana), the villainous protégé of Bullseye, who aiming to become Spider-Boy's nemesis, temporarily takes the name "Spider-Girl" to mock him while the two partake in a tournament, ultimately keeping the name as the third Earth-616 Spider-Girl. She was created by Dan Slott and Michael Cho.[6] This Spider-Girl later gained her own comic series that detailed what happened to Spider-Girl after she parted ways with Bullseye.[7]
Prior to calling herself "Mayhem", Mayday's clone April (the "Brand New May") goes by Spider-Girl, the two sharing the mantle (April known as Spider-Girl Blue due to her blue suit).
The first Spider-Girl in the mainstream Marvel Universe is Aña "Anya" Sofia Corazon, the Latina superhero who originally called herself Araña (Spider), and occasionally goes by Spider-Girl.
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The second volume of Spider-Boy introduces a new incarnation of Spider-Girl who is the supervillain minion of Bullseye. She accompanies him in ambushing Spider-Boy and Daredevil on top of the Daily Bugle to reclaim the trophy. As Spider-Boy is surprised that Spider-Girl knows his true identity and claims that she is like this because of him, Spider-Girl webs up Spider-Boy and Daredevil with her barbed webbing as she and Bullseye escape with the Golden Fang Trophy. Daredevil and Spider-Boy follow them to Madripoor.[11][12]
In a flashback to three years ago in Kawainui Falls, Hawaii, Spider-Girl's history as a Hawaiian girl named Makawalu "Maka" Akana is explored. After diving off a cliff, she was approached by Bullseye who recognized her talents and took her as his protégé. In the present, Makawalu and Bullseye are en-route on an unmarked airplane to Madripoor. They arrive at the sight of the Challenge of the Jade Dragon overseen by the Gaping Maw and present the Golden Fang Trophy as their entry into the tournament. Bullseye tells Spider-Girl about some of the competitors which consist of Bengal, an Iron Fist user, the Sisters of Stone, the Perfect Golden Duo, and El Gigante and La Mota. Bullseye and Spider-Girl are surprised to learn that Daredevil and Spider-Boy have entered the Challenge of the Jade Dragon as the latest competitors.[13]
Spider-Girl and Bullseye watch Spider-Boy and Daredevil's fight with El Gigante and La Mota. Then they face off against the Perfect Golden Duo. Spider-Girl and Bulleye come out as the victors. Spider-Girl later catches up with Spider-Boy after the match. He then recalls that "Spider-Girl" is actually Funhouse, a supervillain with the ability to duplicate the superpowers of anyone she makes eye contact with. Years prior, Bullseye dispatched Funhouse to attack Spider-Boy and Ms. Marvel at the time when they were after Stegron. After copying the abilities of Ms. Marvel and Stegron, Funhouse copied Spider-Boy's powers, but lost control of them. Spider-Boy states to Funhouse that what happened that day was comparable to when Rogue copied the abilities of Ms. Marvel, offering to hook her up with Rogue and the X-Men when the tournament is over. Hulkette later appears telling them that they are needed back at the arena. Funhouse is told by Bullseye that the Sisters of Stone won their match. As Spider-Boy and Daredevil face off against Bengal and Tigris, Funhouse informs Bullseye that she has successfully gotten into Spider-Boy's head, and that she will destroy him when he least suspects it.[14]
During their fight against Daredevil and Spider-Girl, Mist has the Gaping Maw warriors look away so that Spider-Girl cannot copy their abilities again. As Spider-Girl finds herself unable to copy Daredevil's abilities, Bullseye starts beating up Spider-Boy with his backpack until Daredevil yields.[15] When the Gaping Maw found that Bullseye had a concealed card that was foreseen by Spider-Boy that led to Bullseye getting disqualified, Spider-Boy and Spider-Girl fought Mist next. They manage to defeat Mist and Spider-Girl cuts all ties with Bullseye afterwards.[16]
After parting ways with Bullseye, Spider-Girl struggles to be a superhero in New York City while attending the Red Snow martial arts studio. She soon ends up targeted by Vermin and his clones, who have been sent by Doctor Tramma. Spider-Girl copies Vermin's abilities, allowing her to subdue the clones. Tramma speaks to Spider-Girl through a drone, vowing to see her later.[17] While contending with her grandmother's upcoming birthday party, Spider-Girl is attacked by Lady Bullseye, who was sent by Tramma to find out how her powers work.[18] Tramma receives instructions from her employer Tombstone to get Spider-Girl as he is shown near a device.[19]
After Hijack is injected with a formula and gets into Rand Enterprises' systems, Spider-Girl rescues some of the employees as she is confronted by Spider-Man, who helps to pursue a drone controlled by Hijack. Tombstone advises Tramma to dispose of them.[20] After seeing a vision of Hijack begging to be stopped, Spider-Girl ends up disabling the drone as Tramma tells Tombstone and Lady Bullseye that it will be back to being operational soon. Spider-Girl finds Tramma with Hijack. After knocking Tramma and her minions to the ground, Spider-Girl wakes up Hijack and accidentally taps into his abilities, shutting down all power in Manhattan. This knocks out Spider-Girl, with Hijack carrying her away. He uses his powers to work a pay phone in order to call for help. Maka wakes up in her apartment and encounters Rogue. Maka expects herself to be grounded by her mother and asks Rogue for the X-Men's number so she can use it once she is no longer grounded.[21]
Maka's mother has the family flown back to Hawaii even in light of what happened to her father's business partner Dr. Ikaika. After returning to her school, Maka becomes Spider-Girl to investigate the disappearance of Ikaika. She arrives at the Hale Research building, where Noa is talking with Mr. Hale. Spider-Girl quickly changes back into Maka when Hale's assistant senses that she is nearby. While driving Maka home, Noa is notified that someone is breaking into their house and drops Maka off near Ānela's place. As Spider-Girl, Maka confronts the masked gunmen and webs them up. However, she is attacked by three mutated one-eyed dogs who have been held in the gunmens' truck.[22]
Miscellaneous
Peter Parker #1–4 (March–June 2010) features a Spider-Man advocacy group known as The Spider-Girls in "The Private Life of Peter Parker", consisting of Becky, Emma Paley, and Leila Goldberg, who operate a community service centre in Spider-Man's honour, opposed in merchandising by Teri Hillman, also calling herself Spider-Girl, with the four coming to peace and ultimately all being known as Spider-Girl by the storyline's end.[23]
In "What If Someone Else Besides Spider-Man Had Been Bitten By The Radioactive Spider?", Betty Brant is one of three candidates – along with Flash Thompson and John Jameson – who is bitten by the radioactive spider which gave Spider-Man his powers. After confiding in Peter, and with his assistance, she begins to fight crime under the name "The Amazing Spider-Girl", with a mask similar to Spider-Man's but a very different costume. One time, she fails to stop a certain crook, who subsequently murders Peter's uncle Ben. The shock over the consequences of her failure makes Betty quit her Spider-Girl identity, although Peter takes up the identity of Spider-Man later on by synthetically recreating and ingesting the irradiated spider's venom.[24]
An Ultimate Marvelversion of Spider-Girl/Spider-Woman is featured with the Ultimate continuity. This version, known by various names, is a gender-swapped clone of the Peter Parker of the Ultimate Universe, with all of his memories, from their perspective having gone to sleep one day a boy and woken up the next as a girl. Initially known as Spider-Girl/Spider-Woman, she joins the Avengers and takes on the mantle of Black Widow, before returning to their original name.
In Ultimate Spider-Man #200, a glimpse of the future shows Kitty Pryde to eventually become Spider-Girl.[25]
In the pages of Old Man Logan, Ashley is the daughter of Tonya Parker and Hawkeye who did not like the way that Kingpin was running Hammer Falls. She becomes "Spider-Bitch", allying herself with a new Punisher and Daredevil, and plans to take back Hammer Falls, only for the group to be captured and Daredevil and Punisher to be fed to the carnivorous dinosaurs.[26] Hawkeye breaks his daughter out of her cell, whereafter Ashley immediately beheads Kingpin which avenges Daredevil and Punisher's deaths.[26] Then she attempts to kill her father, before taking over Hammer Falls as the new Kingpin.[26] Old Man Logan rescues Hawkeye as Ashley sends her men after them.[26]
The character appears in the "Spider-Verse" and Spider-Geddon storylines, now referred with her father's surname as Ashley Barton, and alternately referred to as "Spider-Girl" and "Spider-Woman" due to the family-friendly nature of the narrative, and is among the spider-powered characters who are recruited by The Superior Spider-Man (Doctor Octopus's mind in Peter Parker's body) to help fight the Inheritors, before returning to the Wastelands in "Venomverse" and "Old Man Quill".[27][28]
Penelope Parker
Introduced in "Spider-Verse", Penelope P. Parker is the 11-year-old Spider-Girl of Earth-11, who is best friends with Mary Jane Watson and has a crush on Flash Thompson.[29]
Charlotte Morales
The celebrity daughter of Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales from Earth-8, Charlotte "Charlie" Morales operates as Spider-Girl alongside her brother Max as Spider-Boy.[30] In Spider-Man: Reign 2, Charlotte and Max are revealed to be Miles' children with Tiana Toomes, and just Gwen's stepchildren on Earth-8.[31]
Anya Corazon / Spider-Girl appears in Spider-Man (2017), voiced by Melanie Minichino.[37][38] This version is a student at Horizon High. After developing spider-powers during the first season, she later adopts the Spider-Girl alias in subsequent seasons.[39]
An alternate universe variant of May Parker/Spider-Girl originating from Iron Man 2020's timeline appears in the novel Time's Arrow 3: The Future by Tom DeFalco and Rosemary Edghill.
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↑ "Bring On the Bad Guys Pt. 2". Spider-Man. Season 2. Episode 9. July 30, 2018. Disney XD.
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