2006-09-11 15:32:13 · 8 answers · asked by trxr4kdz 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Spidy has always been on the cutting edge.. He kept his maiden name of "spider" during his Same sex marriage. ever since then superheros everywhere are better off for it..
2006-09-12 05:56:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He got shot early in his career by a villain's hyphen-gun, and it was decided that it would be life-threatening to try to remove it. He is almost as powerful as he was before and can do most of the things he used to do.
Seriously, I think it was to distinguish him from Superman. In fact, in one of the early Spider-Man stories, a villain (I think it was Doc Ock!) actually taunted Spidey by CALLING him "Superman" while they were fighting. Marvel claims it was an accident, but we know better.
The person who claimed it was so that people could find Spider-Man (hyphenated, instead of two separate words or one word) in an Internet search was wrong. The Internet didn't exist when Spider Man first came out. There were no searchable data-bases. Files were on paper in filing cabinets. Spell checking was something the editor did, manually.
This was a good question, by the way! Much better than the stale "Who would win this fight?"
2006-09-12 09:07:32 · answer #2 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Spider-Man was created in 1962, the hyphen was intentionally put into the character's name by co-creator Stan Lee to help readers distinguish the character's name from Superman.
2006-09-12 12:34:27 · answer #3 · answered by Hector S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple answer? Because many, many years ago all superheroes had hypens. Bat-man, Spider-man, He-man and others. Over time many of them lost the hyphen but Spidey kept his! = )
2006-09-11 23:17:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on who writes it, some people like it, others do one word but Marvel.com has it as a hyphen.
Why? Well, Spiderman comes up wrong in spell checks, but Spider Man seems like two seperate, unrelated words...
Ok, that was total b.s....
If you wanted to know badly talk to Stan Lee...
I don't really get it, the compition didn't when he was created. (Superman and Batman were his compition, but they had since lost their hyphens)
2006-09-11 22:55:12 · answer #5 · answered by littlegrady2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SPIDER-MAN has a hyphen in his name because his name should not be confused with SUPERMAN, which is one word.
2006-09-12 14:43:26 · answer #6 · answered by Louise Smith 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because someone already got to his hymen
2006-09-11 22:56:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
is this a joke or something?
2006-09-11 23:00:50 · answer #8 · answered by confused 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋