Yup, Ben Reilly was the original Spider-Man. Yup, Untold Tales chronicled Ben's adventures as Spider-Man. Yup. Uh-huh. Really.Maybe you jumped the gun on that one a little bit, Assistant Editor Glenn Greenberg...
Man, I'm so glad I wasn't reading Spider-Man in the 90s...
Did he jump the gun? I thought Marvel did intend that to be the next 'truth'?
ReplyDeleteMarvel, for all of 10 minutes, did intend for Ben to have been the one true Spider-Man, and Peter the clone. But within a couple of months of that column in Untold Tales was written, the myriad behind the scenes editorial changes/firings/cmind changes/mutinies resulted in that being changed, and Ben was the clone again, and Peter was and always had been Spider-Man.
ReplyDeleteIndeed - so when he wrote the column, he likely wasn't jumping the gun. That things changed back doesn't mean he was wrong at the time, no?
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