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SpideyWeb's Guide on Spider-Man Figures

Hi peeps, I have been wanting to do this for the longest time. I have

been a Spidey fan since young and the only action figure I ever

wanted was a Secret Wars Spidey, which I never got round to owning

(*sigh*). Anyhow, I came to terms with that as I was unable to find

the figure then (no internet and no income at that time). But when I

first set my eyes on the Clamshell Spider-Man Classics, it rekindled

my desire to own Spidey action figures and since then, I have been

trying to get the cooler versions of Spidey made.

Just a note, typically, I only get Spidey figures at the 6 inch scale and

I will only get the articulated versions (i.e. no water spraying action

feature etc). The acid test for me is still the "four-point crouch" of

Spidey and I dare say not many Spidey figures out there can pull it off

nicely.

I will go in chronological order (roughly) on the Spidey figures that

were introduced and give some comments on the figure and you can

make your own judgment call on which one works for you. I shall onlyinclude the comic versions of Spidey.

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Clamshell Spider-Man Classics (SMC) Series One

Red/Blue McFarlane Spidey

This is the first wave of SMC introduced by Toy Biz in 2001. They had

decided to go with a new type of packaging, a sturdy clamshell

instead of the typical bubble/card packaging. This wave did so well

that they decided to package (and articulate) the subsequent Marvel

Legends in this manner.

This is the official McF Spidey. The design was based on Todd

McFarlane's artwork. The points of articulation (POA) was fantastic in

its time. The finger articulation enables our friendly neighbourhood

web-slinger to do the "thwip" hand pose. What were missing were the

individual finger articulation and the bicep twist. The rest of the

articulation was there. It was awesome but it still could not do a

proper four-point crouch.

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This wave also includes the black Spidey, Man-Spider and and a

half-transformed Venom.

Clamshell Spider-Man Classics Series Two Amazing

Fantasy Spidey

Following the success of Clamshell SMC Series One, Toy Bizintroduced the second wave of SMC. This time this wave was

launched with Kaybee exclusives of Spider-Man 2099 and Scarlet

Spider. The other figures include Battle-ravaged Spidey, Rhino, red

Daredevil and the ever so rare Yellow Daredevil.

However, the main figure is the Amazing Fantasy Spidey, or more

affectionately known as Ditko Spidey as inspired by Steve Ditko's art

in Amazing Fantasy #15. There were 2 different packaging as well,

the more common one is the one with the Amazing Fantasy #15

reprint inserted whereas the other is a silver foil poster.

One other "running change" worth mentioning would be that some of

this Ditko Spidey actually had an improvement in articulation. It has

the added bicep twist. Most of them do not. I am fortunate enough to

find one with the bicep twist. There was no breakthrough

improvement in articulation and they only have the "thwip" finger

articulation. The clamshell SMC ended with this wave despite doing

very well. Thereafter they introduced the red-carded SMC (which I

will refer to as SMC now onwards).

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Some good read on clamshell SMC in the link below:

http://actionfigures.about.com/library/arc/blar-smc.htm

SMC 6 Parachute Spidey

Toy Biz restarted the ever loved SMC with a red-carded version.

However, first 5 waves seen many versions of Spidey which did notcatch my attention at all. In wave 6, theres this Parachute Spidey

(commonly known as Para Spidey) that made many US collectors

named it the definitive Spidey.

Personally I did not like the Para Spidey as he look more "cartoony"

than comic accurate. Para-advocates like the fact that he is slim and

had painted weblines, as many of the Spidey figures out there sport

sculpted weblines instead. It also has the "bent" 2 middle finger

articulation that allows it to have a nicer "thwip" pose but it looks

very weird in any other position.

Para Spidey was reissued into many other Spideys in subsequent

waves (I can't even remember what were most of them). One notable

reissue was that this Para Spidey was reissued in the Urban Legends

boxset. The only difference what that in Urban Legends boxset, the

blue was a deeper blue than the regular Para Spidey.



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Urban Legends boxset:

Despite not liking Para Spidey, I got myself 2 of it.

SMC 10 Snap Shot Spidey

This Spidey is the first comic version Spidey to sport individual finger

articulation (first being Spidey 2 movie superposeable Spidey). I like

this Snap Shot's head sculpt very very much. However, there were

man quality issues complaints on it, saying that the pegs are very

brittle and breaks easily. There was a running change, the initial

release had red coloured plastic pegs whereas the later batches had

blue pegs. The quality of the blue pegs were claimed to be much

worse but it is not exactly confirmed.

This is also the first Spidey figure to be able to do a nice four-point

crouch, not to mention the numerous awesome poses with the



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included display stand. One complain I have is the hips of Snap-Shot.

For many angles he looks as though he has too large a hip but it's

nothing that can't be managed by adjusting the camera angle.



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Sinister Six boxset SpideyThis Sinister Six boxset Spidey (SS Spidey) has much of the base body

as Snap Shot and many people mistaken them to be the same. They

are not. The headsculpt is different and even the body has slight

differences. SS Spidey was considered to be Romita Sr's redition

(correct me if I am wrong). This is also the first Spidey to have a

webbing accessory added for the webbed wing effect (ML10 FA Spidey

and Fearsome Foes boxset Spidey being the others).



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SMC 12 Superposeable Spidey with Wall-Crawling

ActionThis is IT! This is THE Spidey for me. When this was introduced, many

people called this a McFarlane Spidey re-do. However, over time,

Jesse Falcon from Toy Biz confirmed that this is in fact the rendition

of Campbell's artwork and hence the official "Campbell Spidey". But

you know how fans are like, many insisted on calling this McF Spidey

(me inclusive).

Campbell Spidey must have the most beautiful body sculpt (a little

lanky though) with the nicest sculpted fingers.



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Marvel Legends Series 10 (Sentinel) First

Appearance Spidey

This is the first Spidey (in fact the ONLY Spidey) that appeared in the

ML line. It is a re-do of the Ditko's Spidey in Amazing Fantasy. A

reprint of Amazing Fantasy was also included with the figure.

This ML10 FA Spidey comes with Sentinel's head and chest as part of

the Build-a-Figure (BAF). The complaint on this Spidey is the fingers.

Even though each finger is individually articulated, the fingers are of

EQUAL length, making them look more like sausages. In addition, this

Spidey has the hinged shoulder joint with is rather useless.Ads by FoxyLyrics Ad Opt ions


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SMC 16 Super Strength Spidey

This is the first worthy SMC Spidey after SMC changed the card to

light blue card instead of the initial red card. Many US folks love this

version of the Spidey. I had gotten him, however, I am not exactly

impressed with him, not to mention that Super Strength Spidey had

the Para Spidey's finger articulation and not the individual finger

articulation.



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Fearsome Foes of Spidey boxset Spidey

This Spidey has the same base body as Campbell Spidey, just sporting

a different head sculpt. I have yet to own this figure as Fearsome

Foes of Spidey boxset never made it to Singapore at retail.

Will try my best to get my hands on him for completion sake even

though I prefer Campbell's headsculpt.



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Clamshell SMC Series One Black Spidey

This is part of the Clamshell SMC Series One. It is the same base body

as the red/blue McF version with the exception that it is a totally

smooth body.



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SMC 9 Black Spidey

This is the re-do of the Secret Wars black Spidey using a new

articulated base body. For those who are familiar with Marvel

Legends, this has the same base body as ML7 Iceman. The finger

articulation no longer is the "thwip" pose. It is the full palm

articulation that allows the hand to be open or closed into a fist. This

is alright since black Spidey shoots web from the white patch at thetop of his hand when he is donning the alien costume.



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After Hasbro took over the Marvel license, they reissued this black

Spidey with silver paint instead of white paint. The figure (even the

hang-glider accessory) is exactly the same.

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Pics were taken from these following sites:http://www.thefwoosh.com/index.php?option=com_content&

task=section&id=14&Itemid=111

http://www.thefwoosh.com/forum/

http://marvelousnews.com/database/index.php?itemid=164(used to



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be MarvelToyCrazy)

http://marvellegends.net/

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Updated 30 July 2008 - Fixed the dead links for the references (but

not the pics I borrowed as watermark may have changed)

POSTED BY SPIDEYWEB AT 8:37 PM

LABELS: TOY REVIEW, TUTORIAL

1 5 C O M M E N T S :

Shaun Wongsaid...

very informative writeup, very useful for new collectors

APRIL 14, 2007 AT 11:58 PM

Laurenssaid...

looks kinda microman-ish....i like :)

JUNE 15, 2007 AT 10:28 PM

Khairudin Leesaid...

Thanks alot bro! This is very useful. However need to ask you,

which vers has the best 4 point crouch? From the looks of it,

the Snap Shot one looks better than the McF vers, can clarify?

Also, if you have time, you should do the movie Spidey

comparisons too, I really enjoyed this. There should be more

of such reviews for other characters as well, hehe.

Cheers,

KLS

JUNE 2, 2008 AT 3:17 PM

SpideyWebsaid...

Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for your support! I really

enjoyed myself doing this review too. Always wanted to have

something like that for reference but never found it so

decided to give a go at it. Yeah maybe when I have the

opportunity, I should try the movie figures as well. But I guess

it would be hard to get all of them and especially most of

them are the same figure with just different bases.

As for the 4 point crouch, I think both can be as nice depends

on how you pose it. I have actually seen Para Spidey did some

decent 4 point crouch. If you check out marvellegends.net

the Spidey pose on the mansion is actually McF Spidey with

Snap Shot's head, and it's pretty decent. Hope this helps!

JULY 30, 2008 AT 3:23 PM

Msaid...



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do you know an online store where i could get the snap shot

spidey and the black costume spidey (with this glider). in

germany there is no store where i could buy them.

ah and really nice review. i have 1st app spider and mcfarlane

spider (which i think is the best). you might want to add

"Shoot N Trap Spider-Man" which is acctually ultimate spider

man:http://www.amazon.com

/dp/B0001ZZQVM?smid=A2LYQJ08JZE8H9&tag=dealtime-

toys-20&linkCode=asn

(can't find better pics of it)

AUGUST 6, 2008 AT 6:52 AM

SpideyWebsaid...

Sorry I do not know any online store that still sells Snap Shot.

Think the black Spidey you can still find from the reissue from

Hasbro in the Spider-Man Origins line. But a nicer black Spidey

would be out in the Target wave soon I think. Anyway I know

about the Shoot n Trap Spidey, but I don't like the action

feature and hence did not include it in my review. I only

added in the figures I think worth getting and without action

feature. I know there are some artist renditions that I have

missed including in the review (e.g. Alex Ross Spidey in Dual

Web Swinging Spidey from SMC 12). Thanks for the kind

compliments!

AUGUST 20, 2008 AT 11:34 PM

Tamzinsaid...

Hi, my son has a Spiderman with a clear body, can you give

me some more info on him please?

JANUARY 30, 2009 AT 4:42 PM

SpideyWebsaid...

Not sure what you mean by a clear body? It would be useful if

you have a picture. I know a bluish transparent Spidey figure

called the Sea Battle Spidey from the old 5 inch line. Is this

it?

FEBRUARY 27, 2009 AT 1:51 AM

rorysaid...

The Snap-Shot Spider-man figure is actually based on Ross

Andru's rendition of Spidey, which many consider to be the

definitive look for the character during the 70s.

APRIL 22, 2009 AT 1:05 PM

DarkKanossaid...



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Thanks for the list. The secret wars spidey looks nice

especially the one from SMC series 1.

JULY 6, 2009 AT 12:59 AM

amazing_sydsaid...

Awesome write up, i love your shots as well. keep it going!!

do you collect the 3.75" figures? it'd be nice to see some of

those up.

NOVEMBER 12, 2010 AT 7:03 AM

Josh Overtonsaid...

Really want the Campbell spider figure. Can't find anywhere.

Not even eBay. Do u have a spare ICANN buy or know where I

can buy one?

Thanks

JULY 31, 2011 AT 3:42 PM

Josh Overtonsaid...

[email protected]

JULY 31, 2011 AT 3:43 PM

TRONFANsaid...

Nice Site! I have some questions though- Which is better inarticulation, Snap Shot or McFarlane? Do both figures have

joints that become very loose over time?

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 AT 11:52 AM

Juan Pablo Cevallossaid...

Like your site, just please update it a little more, there are

some other awesome spidey figures, but I like your page, is

very accurate the info

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