Citations:Spidey

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English citations of Spidey and spidey

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  • 1978, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 79, page 8:
    Seven months later he reappeared in his own comic book, The Amazing Spider-Man. In the 16 years since, Spidey (as his fans call him) has become the country's most popular superhero, appearing in 300 daily newspapers.
  • 1981, Ebony Jr., Oct. 1981, Vol. 9, No. 4, page 25:
    In the closet Marvin found his sea shell collection, baseball cards, a stack of Spidey comic books, a jar of dead flies he had forgotten about, a paper bag filled with pine cones, and five cans of mud from Lake Washington.
  • 1983, Boys' Life, Jan 1983, Vol. 73, No. 1, page 21:
    Only Spider-Man's spidey powers can get us out of this!
  • 2002, Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, A Novel, Hachette Digital, →ISBN, unpaged:
    He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time.
  • 2002, John B. Cooke, quoting Frank Brunner, edited by Jon B. Cooke and Bernie Wrightson, Comic Book Artist Collection[1], volume 2, TwoMorrows Publishing, →ISBN, Of Doctors and Ducks - Interview with Artist Frank Brunner on His Marvel Day, page 163:
    [] before John put the spider-lines in the head, it looked like Spidey was holding a large grapefruit in front of his face, and everyone was just hysterical.
  • 2002, Edward A. Gross, Spider Man Confidential: From Comic Icon to Hollywood Hero[2], Hyperion, →ISBN, page 2001:
    To the viewer, it is going to look like Spidey just jumped far and high right in front of you, leaving a collison with Bone Saw imminent.
  • 2007, Neil Rae, Jonathan Gray, quoting "Gary", edited by Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich, and Matthew P. McAllister, Film and comic books[3], University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, When Gen-X Met The X-Men: Retexualizing Comic Book Film Reception, page 94:
    Some Spidey fans hate some of the titles.
  • 2007, Michael Gerard Bauer, Don't Call Me Ishmael, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 241:
    Well, Bilbo, tell me, what have you got planned for the holidays? Putting the finishing touches to the time machine? Darning up the holes in your Spidey suit?
  • 2008, Anthony Swofford, Exit A, A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 45:
    If, on payday, a drunken military kid wanted the Hulk but the tattooist was better at Spidey, the drunken kid would end up with Spidey.
  • 2009, Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston, Green to Gold, How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, illustrated, page 115:
    McDonald’s calculated the downside to be high and the corrective cost low, so a few years before Kellogg had its Spidey surprise, McDonald’s used its market clout to pressure suppliers to find different options.
  • 2013, Gerry Conway, Leah Wilson, Webslinger: Unauthorized Essays On Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, page 32:
    [H]e's also written a Spidey short story (“Arms and the Man” in 1997's Untold Tales of Spider-Man) and a Spidey novel (Down These Mean Streets in 2005).

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