SpiderMan’s ORIGINAL Armor Wasn’t Made by Tony Stark
Spider-Man’s ORIGINAL Armor Wasn’t Made by Tony Stark
Everyone loves Spider-Man’s ‘Iron Spider’ armor invented by Tony Stark in the MCU. But how many know the FIRST version – created by Peter himself?
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Fans of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame loved seeing Spider-Man don his “Iron Spider” suit. Originally introduced during the Civil War event in Marvel Comics, the armored suit became one of Spidey’s most popular costumes with its prehensile legs and multiple gadgets.
But not as many fans may realize that long before Tony Stark invented the Iron Spider suit, Spider-Man had a completely different suit of “Spider Armor” that was closer to what fans would expect from the name. And this original suit of armor was also created by another scientific genius – Peter Parker.
The Spider-Armor made its first appearance in Web of Spider-Man #100. During this time, Spider-Man was busy battling multiple super villains as he tried to stop a major underworld gang war between Blood Rose (aka Richard Fisk – the son of the Kingpin), Gauntlet (a former friend of Richard’s named Alfredo who believed he was Richard Fisk), and the Foreigner (a criminal mastermind who sent multiple supervillains – the New Enforcers – against his enemies).
To complicate things even further, Nightwatch – a new, 90s-themed antihero with a costume reminiscent of Todd McFarlane’s Spawn – involved himself in the war to retrieve some advanced tech Gauntlet had stolen from him. As if this wasn’t enough, Peter was behind in his ESU lab work and worried about flunking out of grad school. Deciding he needed an edge in the fight, and hoping to catch up on his school work, Spidey paid a visit to Empire State University’s laboratories and spent all night working on a new hard-web agent. He then coated his costume with this new webbing, creating an armored suit dubbed “The Spider-Armor.” Tracking down the bad guys to their lair, Spidey put his new suit to the test.
Spidey’s new web-based armor performed amazingly well – at first. Its metallic-like surface was bullet and flame proof and helped Peter take plenty of punishment from foes like Thermite and Tangle. It was also insulated, protecting Spider-Man from the Eel’s electrical attacks. However, Plant Man managed to damage the Spider-Armor with his quick-growing seeds which ate through the armor like termites.
A short while later, Thermite shot Spider-Man with alternate heat and cold blasts, melting and then freezing the web spinner’s armor into a metallic straight jacket. Realizing this was it for the Spider-Armor, Peter flexed his muscles and shattered the metallic webbing, revealing his ordinary red and blue suit underneath (which had somehow survived the beating with no rips or tears. Clearly, the spider-armor webbing had a very slick design). Fortunately, the Spider-Armor had already helped Peter take down multiple foes – making it easier for him to stop his other enemies in his regular spider-suit. However, the hard-web agent he used for the Spider-Armor was apparently too expensive to manufacture regularly or too unstable… because Peter hasn’t used that particular type of armor since.
In truth, the “Spider-Armor” was likely just another throwaway gimmick Marvel offered for the 100th issue of Web of Spider-Man. It certainly fit the trends of 1990s superhero costumes that tended to be overelaborate creations with complicated backstories (Spawn’s “necroplasm” armor – which was actually referenced in the issue by Nightwatch’s self-repairing cloak and battle suit). Novelty comic book covers (with hologram cards or die cut patterns) were also all the rage at the time, and Web of Spider-Man #100 showcased a green foil cover with a silver Spider-Man swinging out at readers. Considering Spidey never wore that particular armor again, it’s a safe bet that he only donned his shiny new suit just to sell more issues of his comic.
That being said, the Spider-Armor did have some interesting features. Unlike his Iron Spider suit, Peter’s first armored costume was a spray-on suit composed entirely of webbing – which meant that it would eventually dissolve off of his regular suit. However, Peter admitted he didn’t know how long this new hard-web agent would last, adding some tension to the scenes where Spider-Man was being blasted with lethal doses of fire, ice, and electricity.
The look of the Spider-Armor also did prove popular enough with Spider-Man fans for it to make appearances in video games and the closing episodes of the fan-favorite Spider-Man: The Animated Series from the 1990s. In the story, Spider-Man teamed up with alternate versions of himself (decades before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse did this on the big screen). One of the alternate Spider-Men turned out to be an arrogant Peter Parker who was a multi-billionaire in his home universe – and who had built his own suit of “Spider-Armor” to wear into battle.
Although identical in appearance to the Spider-Armor Peter had donned for Web of Spider-Man #100, this suit was clearly more advanced as it could fire missiles from its web shooters and had a laser built into one of its gauntlets. This “rich Spider-Man” also boasted that he had a “giant Spider robot” which some took to be a reference to the giant mecha robot piloted by the Japanese Spider-Man who had his own live action series in the 1970s (and who will be appearing in the Into the Spider-Verse sequel).
At one point, the “mainstream” Spider-Man journeyed to the “rich Spider-Man’s” universe and discovered that he owned his own companies, that he was engaged to Gwen Stacy, that Uncle Ben was still alive, and that J. Jonah Jameson was his godfather. Although most of this seemed ludicrous at the time, later comic books actually followed some of these plot ideas – with the mainstream Peter Parker becoming a wealthy business owner (after Doctor Octopus took over his body and started his own company, Parker Industries).
Tellingly, one of the first things Peter did when he gained control of his company was to manufacture a new suit of Spider-Armor – one that was more than the spray-on armor his original suit basically was. More of an Iron Man suit with plenty of cool gadgets built into it, Peter’s later Spider-Armors reveal that what may have started out as a cheap gimmick has since turned into a genuine part of Spider-Man’s status quo (at least when he’s rich).
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/spiderman-armor-suit-original-comics/
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