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with assistance and intial input from Jack Kirby.

Apparently, the computer simulation also shows a cosmic-ly endowed wallcrawler, swinging from galaxy to galaxy.

I want to see Spiderman 3: Enter the Stilt-Man!

Why jump the shark when you can step over it with hydraulic lifts?

What about the co-creator, Steve Ditko? Where's his payday?

Harry Osborne is the second Green Goblin, not the Hobgoblin. Robert Kingsley was the first Hobgoblin.

I cant remember 100% my storyline progression but doesnt Harry become the Hobgoblin instead?

I don't remember the exact progression (which came first, GG or HG?), but I do know that Harry takes up the mantle of the Green Goblin. The Hobgoblin was someone else (Googled for it). I thought there were only three Green Goblins (though I couldn't remember other than Norman and Harry). It looks like there were four of them. There were also four different Hobgoblins. Apparently villains in the Spider-Man mythos like to recycle old ideas (see the page above, there are several different iterations of a number of villains).

Spider-Man: The Manga was released in the US in 1997. It was written and drawn by Ryoichi Ikegami. He may be familiar to some american fans, as he was the artist on Crying Freeman and Sanctuary, two popular Japanese manga titles release in the US by Dark Horse comics. Here's a cover: http://www.spiderfan.org/cgi-bin/cover.pl?80123,sp iderman_manga,021.jpg

Looks to me like it hovers around thirty.

We can only hope. That would mean Stunner would become real in just 20 years...

Um, a friend of mine who pays attention to these things reckons you've got him confused with Dr Doom, the villainous dictator of Latveria. . I, of course, can only take their word for it.

Nope. No accent. He was born in New York. Check it here.

He was given the accent in the cartoon for some unknown reason.

Don't forget Web, Adjectiveless, Sensational, Unlimited, etc.

Well, in the current Amazing Spider-man storyline. I think Norman Osborn got "revived" while the other Green Goblins including Harry are dead as a door nail. Go to www.spiderfan.org if you want to update your Spidey info. :P

Ok, you do know that Spiderman often wore his Web shooters under his street clothes (and also often the whole costume except the mask.)

The "organic Web shooters" thing is implausable too. How come the Web shooters are conveniently located in his wrists? In those Spider-Goats they created, the spider silk protein is only produced by their genetically engineered mammary glands when they lactate. (Note, they are female spider-goats.) I mean this is a still the story of a young photographer who gets bitten by a radioactive spider, right? It isn't even remotely plausable that he would get "spider powers" from that. So, why are we worrying about "plausibility?"

So, if it doesn't bother me that it isn't plausible, why does it bother me? Because it was pretty cool that Parker could come up with cool technology when he needed to. What about the spider tracers that he could track via his spider sense? How are they going to explain those? More convenient organic tech? Raimi has boxed himself into a version of Spider-Man that has to become more and more divergent from canon.

Now, despite my disappointment with certain details of the plot, I'm not saying it is a bad movie. Sam Raimi has done pretty well with other stories. It'll be "his" Spider Man (as opposed to "the" Spider Man), but I worry that the evil suits had some influence on the film. I won't see it, of course, until one of my friends or family inevitably rents it (or worse, buys it). MPAA bad, Sony bad, after all.