SpiderMans Daughter Earned Her Legacy in One Incredible Scene

Spider-Man’s Daughter Earned Her Legacy in One Incredible Scene

Spider-Girl, May “Mayday” Parker the daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane, showed determination under impossible odds just like her Dad once did.

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SpiderMans Daughter Earned Her Legacy in One Incredible Scene

Superhero page and screen fiction of the 1990s had plenty of future-setting legacy characters with May “Mayday” Parker standing out. Marvel Comics had an entire line for the far-future of 2099, Batman Beyond was an animated ratings hit, and Marvel tried to launch a few titles featuring children of their iconic superheroes. This launch was to be the beginning of an entire universe of legacy characters under an imprint named “MC-2” or “Marvel Comics 2”. It started when co-writer Tom DeFalco and writer/artist Ron Frenz created a clever possible-future for Spider-Man in which he is retired with a daughter for What If…? #105, released in December of 1997. What If…? is a regular series of exploratory one-off stories set in alternate universes but, in an extremely rare move, this issue was reprinted the next year as Spider-Girl #0, followed by a new ongoing series.

By Spider-Girl #56 in 2003, Tom DeFalco was still writing the character but he was joined by Pat Olliffe as a co-writer and artist. In this issue, May “Mayday” Parker found herself in a situation very familiar to diehard Spider-Man fans but which will ring bells to anyone who’s seen more than a few Spider-Man films. In The Amazing Spider-Man #33, Peter Parker is trapped under an impossible-looking amount of fallen machinery left behind by the escaping Doctor Octopus and, when all seems lost, narrowly lifts it off himself, inspired by thoughts of his loved ones in one final heroic push. There have been numerous homages to the scene in the film and comics. The iconic image of this metal trap surrounded by slowly dripping water has become indelibly linked with the Spider-Man character.

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The parallels between the two opening sequences are striking. The main character isn’t merely trapped by something insurmountable but about to drown while trapped. Peter can’t budge as a crack in the ceiling of Doc Ock’s underwater base is slowly letting the East River inside in Amazing Spider-Man #32. While Mayday is welded to an anchor and dropped directly into the Hudson River in the middle of Winter in Spider-Girl #55. The principal is the same. Both protagonists imagine faces of the loved ones they fear they’ve failed. As she thinks of her soon-to-be-born baby brother she breaks the welded metal to get medicine for her pregnant mother just like her father had to do for his ill Aunt May in Steve Ditko’s famous scenario drawn almost 40 years earlier.

The scene has the set-up, the elements, and the structure of the original from 1965 but it even has the same purpose: showing us that our hero has earned their super-strength. Mayday becomes the next chapter in the story, a worthy addition to the pantheon, Spider-Man’s successor for the MC-2 Universe in these powerful pages from the 56th issue.

A precursor to the beloved Spider-Gwen character, Peter Parker’s daughter was the first female Spider-Man legacy character. Everyone assumed Spider-Girl couldn’t last but the title continued with a few name changes but no publishing gaps for 12 years. Wildly-successful Miles Morales is only getting close to breaking Mayday’s record now that the character has consistently been in print for 9 years. They all owe a not insignificant debt to May “Mayday” Parker. The character had such a devoted following that her series escaped cancelation again and again just like she did this death trap, paralleling the iconic one her famous father escaped in the original run of one of the most successful superhero comic-books of the 20th Century.

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