Spider-Man story...
Apr. 21st, 2002 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aribWith the pending Spider-Man movie, I thought I'd share one of my earliest webslinger-related tales.
When I was little, around two or three years old, my uncle was a copyright lawyer who had a contract with Marvel Comics. He'd handle copyrights on their merchandise, and would often get samples, which tended to go to my brother Hyim and me.
Hyim got a Spider-Man sweatjacket, I got an Incredible Hulk one. (at 2.5 years old, I called him the "Credible Hulk," apparently he was a very believeable angry green superthing)
But the Piece de Resistance was probably the Spider-Man doll/action figure I got when I was three. It was basically a Ken doll with a rubber Spidey-mask head, and a removeable Spider-Man costume.
I remember my friend Chaninah and I playing with the Spidey doll, when we came to a horrifying discovery...
Bear in mind, I didn't have any sisters, and Chaninah's sis was too young for Barbie and Ken dolls, so neither of us knew what to expect when Spidey was... disrobed.
Mom still cracks up when she retells me approaching her with a very serious look on my face, asking her "Why Spider-Man no have penis, Mommy?"
Go ahead, laugh, it's good for you. :-)
When I was little, around two or three years old, my uncle was a copyright lawyer who had a contract with Marvel Comics. He'd handle copyrights on their merchandise, and would often get samples, which tended to go to my brother Hyim and me.
Hyim got a Spider-Man sweatjacket, I got an Incredible Hulk one. (at 2.5 years old, I called him the "Credible Hulk," apparently he was a very believeable angry green superthing)
But the Piece de Resistance was probably the Spider-Man doll/action figure I got when I was three. It was basically a Ken doll with a rubber Spidey-mask head, and a removeable Spider-Man costume.
I remember my friend Chaninah and I playing with the Spidey doll, when we came to a horrifying discovery...
Bear in mind, I didn't have any sisters, and Chaninah's sis was too young for Barbie and Ken dolls, so neither of us knew what to expect when Spidey was... disrobed.
Mom still cracks up when she retells me approaching her with a very serious look on my face, asking her "Why Spider-Man no have penis, Mommy?"
Go ahead, laugh, it's good for you. :-)
