Everyone grab your webshooters because it’s undoubtedly Spidey season.
During a Saturday panel at D23 expo, a group of presenters that include Marvel studio’s president Kevin Feige, Spider-Man: Brand New Day actor Jacob Batalon and Disney+’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man showrunner Jeff Trammell hit the stage to celebrate 65 years of Spider-Man.
Though Peter doesn’t look a day older than his perpetual mid-teens to late 20s, the iconic webslinger has certainly earned his 401k pension and retirement plan these past six decades.
Reflecting on Spider-Man’s ever growing popularity which has now expanded more than ever across the forms of an entire Spider-Verse, several highest grossing films, TV shows, video games and more comics, Feige and Batalon discussed the superhero’s legacy.
“There is so much story to tell, that even after 65 years, we’re just starting,” said Feige.
After receiving “C.E.O.” chants from the audience and ribbing Feige about getting his “own show,” Batalon added, “Truly just, wherever the story takes us, we’re willing to follow. I feel like we all work with amazing people who make great things and just want to be a part of something you all love.”
Although Tom Holland wasn’t present, he graced attendees with a video message. “Playing Peter Parker is my dream, and getting to live that dream has been one of the greatest privileges of my career,” he said.
Surprises revealed today on the Premiere stage included the announcement of an interview between Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s Tom Holland and Destin Daniel Cretton which will be featured in the upcoming milestone comic Amazing Spider-Man #1000. The several story issue, coming out in September, will follow Spider-Man as he faces his first new fear-inducing and formidable villain in decades named Ravage. It will also mark Noah Hawley’s debut comic
Disney+’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2, dropping January 2027, teased the introduction Eddie Brock, working for the Daily Bugle, as Doc Oc attacks a gala and kidnaps Harry Osborn after a brief fight with Spidey, who is exposed to Venom’s symbiote.
Alyssa Sapire, head of Disney Jr. Original Programming confirmed a Season 7 renewal of Spidey and His Amazing Friends alongside debuting a first-look at Spidey and the Avengers: Halloween Team-Up and casting announcement of guest star musicians Este Haim and Patrick Stump as villains Hallows Eve and Jack O’Latern respectively.
In 1996, Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee (sans other co-creator Steve Ditko) told the Chicago Tribune why the character meant so much to him, as well as the rest of the world: “He’s the most famous. He’s the one who’s most like me – nothing ever turns out 100% OK; he’s got a lot of problems, he does things wrong, and I can relate to that… he’s got that feeling of the average guy who turned into a hero and still has problems.”
And it seems like with great power and great responsibility that Spider-Man will be enduring plenty more.
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