Was Steve Ditko inspired to create the Spider-Man costume from an old Ben Cooper costume from the 1950’s? This video is pretty interesting. Thanks to Stephen over in the Ditko appreciation Facebook group for posting it.
Here’s another view of the costume. Ironically it was a Disney costume back then. Here’s another post with more info.
This is reason # 1,00,567 why voice actor Josh Keaton is awesome. The Spectacular Spider-Man actor voiced some popular Spider-Meme’s and damn it’s funny. Thanks to Don for pointing this out to me.
Our friend Michael Bailey shared this interesting article with me about the X-Men from the Business Insider website. It talks about how Disney is moving focus away from it’s X-Men characters and focusing on the Avengers […]
Apperantly there is a blog called Heat Vision that reports this: Marc Webb has finalized a deal to helm the new “Spider-Man” movie for Columbia. The studio last week scrapped the fourth installment of the […]
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If anyone is interested, and happens to see this post in time, I currently have one of the 1950’s Ben Cooper Spider-man Costumes listed on eBay! Even if you’re not looking to buy, it’s still cool to check this out, since it’s rarely seen anywhere (not sure how many of these even exist today??):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-AMAZING-SPIDER-MAN-1950s-BEN-COOPER-Halloween-Costume-Marvel-Jack-Kirby-OLD-/171865197674?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2803f6cc6a
I laughed
This is an interesting find, and it’s nice to have a picture of the costume itself
Hey — another guy for the Spider-Verse storyline. And there probably won’t be a legal prohibitions …