Spider-Boy #10

[cyberghostface]

616 Peter is able to restore Bailey to the Web of Life by sacrificing alternate life (and corresponding memories) he had where he wasn't bitten by the spider.

Comments

[knight_moves]

I feel like all these references have been made a dozen times. Way more, in the case of Hostess snack cakes.

Was anyone even alive when that ad campaign ran? It's really more of a reference to earlier references which were themselves referencing references to the real thing. It was funnier when Seanbaby did it back in 2003!

[remial]

I was alive back then.

I also remember Electric Company with Spidey Super Stories. both live action and the magazine.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Guess it's time for us old fogeys to whip this one out..

[zachbeacon]

They ran until the 80s so ..yes.

Besides, before they collected everything Marvel published in books or online, people used to have to buy backissues to catch up and saw all kinds of vintage ads.

I wasn't alive for the Hero of the Beach ads but I get that Flex Mentallo is a reference.

[coldfury]

Was anyone even alive when that ad campaign ran?

OOOF. I don't think I've ever taken such a lethal stray from a Scans Daily comment before.

[zachbeacon]

This is elder abuse.

[deh_tommy]

I don’t know about a dozen times, but these were all covered by the original Spider-Verse so it’s definitely treading old ground. Dan Slott would have been alive for them.

Also kind of rich to have Spider-Girl be all “yuck, I HATE Spider-Verse stuff” when that whole mini-drama was Slott’s fault, but maybe he’s poking fun at himself here.

[viridian5]

Was anyone even alive when that ad campaign ran?

::raises hand:: And a lot of times I still finds riffs on it amusing.

[scelestus]

"I was there, Aragorn. I was there when comic books ran Hostess Twinkies ads featuring Marvel characters."

[beeyo]

Last place I expected a Seanbaby reference.

[beyondthefringe]

Call me when they start referencing the ads for The Magic Snake toy.