Podcast The Classy Comics Podcast

A look at the public domain hero with Spider powers who came before Spider-man.Transcript:Host:She's not amazing, spectacular or sensational, but she is the first ever web slaying superhero. We'll tell you all about it as we look at Spider Queen, a hero of the public domain, straight ahead.Spider Queen was one of several script in the short lived the Eagle comics. The first script appeared in issues 2 through 4 and so will take a look at all 3 stories. I should note, that because she is public domain, she has been used in other works by other creators. The character was used actually as a supervillain by Roy Thomas in The Invaders. The whole reason for that and that character's story is matter we're not going to get into but we're just going to focus on the heroic aspects of her golden age appearances.In the first story, it begins with her already a Spider Queen stopping a bank robbery and then flashes back to her origin story and we find her working as an assistant to her husband, who is described as a brill