Spider-Woman Intros

Dork Note: I always thought DC had a leg up on Marvel when it came to female characters, because characters like Supergirl, Batgirl, and Wonder Woman (Marvel doesn't have an equivalent - to Wonder Woman) seemed to be more central stage in the public eye. While Marvel female characters like Spider-Woman and She-Hulk were hardly promoted with little impact as an IP/Brand. Spider-Woman in particular could have been a huge success for Marvel in the late 70's and early 80's. Her costume was very icon and would have looked great on a t-shirt.

Spider-Woman (1979)

Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D. (2009)

Web Woman (1978)

Fun Fact: Web Woman introduction prompted Marvel Comics to introduce a character called Spider-Woman, real name Jessica Drew, so it could secure intellectual property rights to the name. Stan Lee said in 1978,

I suddenly realized that some other company may quickly put out a book like that and claim they have the right to use the name, and I thought we'd better do it real fast to copyright the name. So we just batted one quickly, and that's exactly what happened. I wanted to protect the name, because it's the type of thing [where] someone else might say, 'Hey, why don't we put out a Spider-Woman; they can't stop us.' ... You know, years ago we brought out Wonder Man, and [DC Comics] sued us because they had Wonder Woman, and ... I said okay, I'll discontinue Wonder Man. And all of a sudden they've got Power Girl [after Marvel had introduced Power Man]. Oh, boy. How unfair.

Fun Fact: Due to lawsuits from Marvel Comics Web Woman cartoons have been withdrawn from distribution.