A Question About Webshooters

[WillB]

This question is for people that read the comics. In the Amazing Fantasy #15 (Spidey's first appearance) a caption notes that the slightest pressure to the armature sets off Peter's webshooters. All pictures of Pete's webshooters show the button on the armature located just above Peter's palm.
My question is, how is Spider-Man able to make a fist or grab something without setting off the shooters? I have always wondered about this. I know in the 90's cartoon Peter tells a little girl that he is careful, but even if he is, the he still would put pressure on the armature, which should set off the shooters.

[New_Spidey]

The web shooters are pressure sensative, but it's a high amount of pressure, like from a press from a person with super strength. In one issue I have from either ASM vol 2 or PPSM vol 2, a kid finds his web shooters. He can't press the button so he hits the button with a hammer. That causes the web shooter to shoot webbing and web the kid to the wall.

This is my gift. It is my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man.

[monkeyinacan]

how'd he get a web-shooter??????

[spidey_girl_]

He built them. (which was also supposed to show his genius, and how he had the potential for even greater discoveries but becoming Spider-Man sort of made it impossible.)

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[fred10]

There is a recent issue of Amazing in which Peter is fighting this Wasp lady in the middle of the street and he is so mad at her while he is pummeling her that his fists are clenched tight enough to set off the webshooters. Throughout the fight he is spraying a thin, broad film of web fluid. When he is done, the street is covered in webbing. There are like cars stuck in it and stuff and he's in the middle of it like a giant Spider's nest.

[kawkaw]

This is the reason mechanical webshooters should have been in the film.;)

[Jpanic]

well guys i hate to prove you wrong, (lol just kidding...im sure everyones right in a sense) but spideys web shooters work like a mouse on a computer...double click... now they are presure sensitive, and release a certain amount of web and consistancy of web depending on how hard he pushes...(now for something inturuptive)
i beleive in the issue your referring to Fred, that webbing isnt actually from his webhooters...JMS ( the write of Amazing) is trying to introduce a mystical side to spideys powers...(might sounds silly if youve havent read it yet but it really is good) since Shanthra is pure wasp power...she was trying to bring out spideys pure spider side...and it worked...but thats a whole different story..

jonny panic
-cya true beleivers

[fred10]

Where did you hear this about the webbing in that fight being from Spidey's pure Spider side?

[Jpanic]

well in the said issues of amazing spiderman...and some previous ones...spidey meets a fellow named ezekiel, who has powers like spidey...and kinda puts a new spin on things...and since then spidey dosnt really belevie that his powers are more mystical than radioactive..but he still wonders about it

and hes had two new foes who fought him simply because they want to feed on the spiderside of him..he beat the first one with science..but the second one (the spider-wasp named shanthra) he beat at a spirital spider shrine... if you read the issue you talked about fred, youll see he left the fight because he was letting the spider-side in control (because he was so angry)

now im not saying he used organic web, but i think it was created almost with his mind because of the spider side... he has also in a few instances used "powers" that he dosnt really have...but youll need to read amazing to really understand it

its very interesting twist that talk about the origin with out messing it up completly... ezekial said to peter something allong these lines... was the spider mearly biting you out of pain, or did it pass its legassy before dieing...

you never know...
anyway that all probably made sense just to me but its to late to retype this whole thing

panic 2.0
-nuff said

[fred10]

I have read those issues and am familiar with Ezekiel. However I have seen no evidence of Peter using powers that he has not always had. I certainly hope that this storyline (which I really appreciate as it is right now) does not end up being some kind of cheezy transition to Peter having organic webshooters in the comic book.

[Jpanic]

i dont think it was "organic webbing" persay..but i dont think it came from the webshooters either...it appeared as he let the spidersaide take over... much like the spiders that saved his life from shanthra buy covering his body, and yet again the ones whom comsumed her...spidey doesnt have control over spiders and yet they did these things...
it was just a meta physical thing...
but we should really stop talking aobut this...because i think were scaring away all the non-reader in the group..lol

jonny panic
-nuff said

[Ray the spiderman]

Im very persise and i dont care about DNA were does the web come from did his veins fall apart and change color.

[lordof]

Originally posted by WillB
My question is, how is Spider-Man able to make a fist or grab something without setting off the shooters?
The button on the shooters is actually set higher on his hand than his actual palm. If you make a fist (go ahead, make a fist) you can see the space in between where your fingers touch and your wrist. THAT'S the spot where he places the button. Furthermore, he has a small metal guard that stretches across the button, to prevent it from going off when he picks objects up, or has to use the flat of his hand. That's why he always uses TWO fingers, to depress the button on either side of the guard.

The shooter requires 60 pounds of pressure to set it off, and it's the pressure that he applies that determines what KIND of webbing he uses, from the thin web-slinging strand (the least pressure) to a wide spray (medium pressure), all the way to a solid, liquid goop, his webbing in his pure state, to put out a fire or to keep even the strongest villian from struggling free (the most pressure).

Hope that answers your question.;)

[zoid9001]

This from Spiderman The Ultimate Guide:
Peter designed his web-shooters so that he wouldn't accidentally fire them every time he made a fist. Resting in the palm of his hand, the trigger works just like a computers mouse. He must tap twice in rapid succession to realease his webbing.

[Cady]

Ok Ive really enjoyed Spiderman the cartoons and the movie but Im not familiar with the comics. Maybe you guys who are can clear this up for me? He gets bitten and gets the power of spidey sense, to climb walls and he super-strong right? But then the web he actually makes? So that was never an actual power he got from the spider-bite? Is that right?

[sguy]

Yup. That's right Cady. In the comics he made the shooters as a testament to show just how intelligent he really is. As already said Spidey can change the consistancy of the web also with these. A thin line,goopy or wide spray. he also made slings,parachutes,etc. with it too.

Side note: he also has his own Spidey signal on his belt too.

[Cady]

Originally posted by sguy
Yup. That's right Cady. In the comics he made the shooters as a testament to show just how intelligent he really is. As already said Spidey can change the consistancy of the web also with these. A thin line,goopy or wide spray. he also made slings,parachutes,etc. with it too.

Side note: he also has his own Spidey signal on his belt too.

Spidey signal?
I kinda liked the idea of organic wedshooters.

[Doc.Oct]

i miss that signal although it would be hard to put it in the movie without it looking really corny

[the next spider-girl]

The signal wasn't used much, right? Like only a handful of times, I thought....

[sguy]

In the older comics it was quite a bit. In later issues it was just used for a visual on the cover of the books usually shining on a villain.

[the next spider-girl]

Ahhh... I see. Thanks!

[lordof]

Originally posted by sguy
Side note: he also has his own Spidey signal on his belt too.
Don't forget his Spider-tracers. I've always loved those little things. Especially after he figured out how to tune them in to his spider-sense.

[Doc.Oct]

yep i remember when he made those spider tracers shortly after he almost got his identity blown


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[spideymoviegirl]

i like organic webshooters. they're cooler cuz it's an internal supply and will never run out unless he's unwilling to be spiderman. and if he ever does run out of his internal supply maybe he just needs to add more fiber to his diet or something lol.

[the next spider-girl]

Originally posted by spideymoviegirl
i like organic webshooters. they're cooler cuz it's an internal supply and will never run out unless he's unwilling to be spiderman. and if he ever does run out of his internal supply maybe he just needs to add more fiber to his diet or something lol. He probably would run out... It'd be like any other gland of the body. Real spiders are very careful in how they use their web because it's not like they have a lot of it. I heard that they suck it back in, which is how you can see a spider come down in front of you on a strand of web and then go back up to the ceiling.

[puertoricangio1]

actually....this might sound a little weird...imagine Peter doing this....lol...spiders in nature eat their web when its no longer needed...then their body would renew the web and the spider can use it again.....and in a spider's lifetime, they have enough web to go from one side of the Brooklyn Bridge to the other 4 times! amazing.