Before you see Spider-Man 3 this Friday, catch up on the comic history behind the movie. HeroHunt has compiled a list of important comic book moments that helped to inspire the third Spidey film. Sure, the continuity in some (probably most) cases has changed, but don’t let that stop you from knowing the geeky origins of all the characters and events in Spider-Man 3.
- First Appearance: Sandman - Amazing Spider-Man #4, Sep. 1963
- First Appearance: Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborn - Amazing Spider-Man #31, Dec. 1965
- Harry Osborn becomes The Green Goblin - Amazing Spider-Man #136, Sep. 1974
- The return of the burglar who killed Uncle Ben - Amazing Spider-Man #200, January 1980
- First Appearance: Spider-Man’s black costume - Amazing Spider-Man #252, May 1984
- Spidey’s black costume is revealed to be a symbiote - Amazing Spider-Man # 258, Nov. 1984
- First Appearance: Venom - Amazing Spider-Man #299, Apr. 1988 and Amazing Spider-Man #300, May 1988
Check out the full list of comic books at HeroHunt.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:46 am
“Before you see Spider-Man 3 this Friday…” - I am still amazed by the fact that the curious release policy allows me to go NOW and see the film at its midnight premiere on May 1st. Anyone wants to join me here in China for watching a flic? You will be back in time for the first US screening ;-)
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:30 am
I seen it on april 30th at late premiere and it suckt, sorry I love spiderman I loved the comics since I was 11 or somthing.
And I loved the first two movies, but that was a pice of shit, I mean the secend one was not true to the comic but atlest it was fun to wache!
I wasn’t Expecting much but that was fuckt up!!!
Ok I am not going to spoil annything you shoud see it yourself and you will agree with me.
I am sad it turnd out so bad, well I gues you can’t allways make good movies, maybe 4 will go back to the spidy one style.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Jack20 is wrong