A welcome from Spider-Girl's creator,

Tom DeFalco

Since when does Spider-Man have a daughter?!

Well, he doesn’t…not really!

On the other hand, I guess he does. At least he does in an alternate future that looks an awful lot like our present. Sounds complicated, right? Wrong!

Here’s all you need to know…there is a comic book called SPIDER-GIRL. In this title, Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson-Parker are happily married and have a fifteen-year-old daughter. Though named after her father’s long-deceased aunt, most of May Parker’s friends call her Mayday, a nickname she picked up playing on the school basketball team.

May has inherited her father’s spider-like powers and her mother’s sparkling personality, Peter’s brains and Mary Jane’s confidence, and so on and so on…

May has also decided to follow in her dad’s web-steps and she’s taken on the mantle of Spider-Girl.

Though Spider-Girl shares many similarities with the original web-swinger, she’s her own person. Peter learned that people die when he fails. May has discovered that people live when she succeeds—a subtle but profound difference!

She has also developed some interesting twists on her powers. Like her father she can stick to any surface. Unlike him she can also magnetize and repel objects that she is touching. Her spider-sense is also a lot more sensitive than Pete’s ever was.

There are many more details to May’s life, but you don’t need to know them now. Just pick up an issue—any issue—and it should contain everything you need to know to enjoy that particular story. (We strive to make each issue accessible to new readers. Please let us know if we’re succeeding!)