Spider Comics and Graphic Novels
In the early 1990s, the Spider and its characters were reinterpreted in comic book form by Timothy Truman for Eclipse Comics. As noted in Comics Scene #19, Truman set his version of the Spider in the "1990s as seen by the 1930s". Elements of this version of the Spider's milieu included airships as common transportation, the survival of the League of Nations into the near past (Wentworth meets Ram Singh during an intervention into India/Pakistan), and World War II, if it ever happened, taking place differently. This series featured an African-American Commissioner Kirkpatrick.
Moonstone Books started a new Spider graphic novel series, which are structured more like illustrated prose stories than traditional panel-by-panel comics. In March 2011 the same publisher offered the first issue of a more traditional Spider comic book, with art by veteran creator Pablo Marcos.
In August 2011 Dynamite Entertainment announced that they were going to produce a Spider comic book series, written by novelist David Liss. The first issue was released in May 2012. The Spider's costume in this series is based on the one worn by actor Warren Hull in Columbia's Spider movie serials, but with the web lines rendered in blood red instead of white.
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