How old were you when you saw spider man for the first time?

[godhood]

I would like to know how old were you when you first saw spiderman? Was it a comic-book, toy or the old animated series. How long have you been a fan? I know this is off the topic here about movie characters but this is a message board for discussions about spider man.

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[whitespider]

id say i was 3 years old when this red and blue dude was on this rope in a comic book cover and from then on i was a spidey fan and now at 23 the movie has been somthing that i has been waiting for seens i was 10 so if we make it next year with all the bs going around the world it will be true

[godhood]

I was about 5 whitespider, and it was the cartoon series of the '60s. Then I started collecting the comic book in the 1980s and have been a fan ever since. This movie is going to rock!!!

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[fancydan58]

Late 60's, Saturday morning, original cartoon show. I was a little kid, and I've been hooked like a fish ever since. I really love the turnaround the current book titles have been making lately. And the Ultimate Spiderman book it the first one in a long time that had me reading again just as soon as I got home with it. Can't say that about any of the other titles in recent years. But JMS and Paul Jenkins are doing the old titles proud again..............finally.

[Jerry_S]

I started reading Spider-Man comics around the same time that I learned how to read. Which was the mid 70's.

[roundeye]

How old were you then, Jerry? 23?
- kiDDing! ;)

[spidey7272]

Holy **** ,,,,Must have been around 1969-70. I actually started reading Fantastic Four comics and then moved on. I used to read all the titles at that time,20 cents was easy to s****e up. life was so much easier back then....LOL

[fancydan58]

You got that right! I still remember scrounging around for soda bottles to take to my local 7-11 to turn in for the deposit. Then I'd hand it right back to them after paying a visit to the comic book rack!!!

Memories......... (sigh)

[whitespider]

going to the local 7-11 was like taking a trip to candyland. i remember cutting lawns and getting 5 dollers out of the whole day and buying 2 or 3 comics and to top it off a slerpee and sit down out side of the 7-11 and read and drink my slerpee................man i miss the old days

[fancydan58]

Yeah! I still have a big stack of Marvel Slurpee cups in my closet! Are they worth anything on the open market?

[whitespider]

so do i dude i dont know if there worth anything i hope because i got like 10 of them

[Shades101]

I am a toon fan and spidey was one of em toons let me tell you if I actually remember the days of my birth I would say from those days I was a spidey fan so lets go to those days and give a couple of years

[scifidiva]

I think Spidey is one of the first cartoons I can remember watching. Either that or Super Chicken. So I was just a wee one.

[bosherman]

I was about 6 when I first saw the 1960's animated series in the Philippines. I think he was the second superhero I was exposed to next to Superman. Shortly, I came to the U.S. and I greatly anticipated seeing Spidey swinging around the rooftops "for real". And lo and behold, I saw him "for real" on the TV teaching me english. Yup, there he was, larger than life... on the TV show, Electric Company (remember?). That was my favorite part of that show.

Sigh, those were the days.

[jomaira]

I think I about 8. My mother's, friend used to buy my brother and I comics we both named Spider-man and X-men as our favorites so I asked for spider-man and my brother asked for x-men. Togther we had over 1500 comics (but he had more X-men than I did spider-man).

[JasonPhillip]

I was 8, and I think it was coloring books my aunt and mom bought me.

[tranescape]

I was about 4 (1979) when I first saw the cartoon. Toby doesn't look like Peter Parker =(

[bigwolf]

I was about 11 when I bought my first Spidey's comic. I bought some numbers of the collections, but I never had all of the numbers. When I was about 17, I miss Spidey. And now, I am 34, and I am reading all of the collections, because they have being reedited in Spain, and a friend is buying them. Pardon, my english is very bad, I expect you understand. SPIDEY FOREVER!!!.

[spidey1965]

I was about 4 or 5 years old and my Dad was a surgical tech and he mostly worked call late nights. I remember that he would bring me a comic book home just about every morning. Spiderman just happen to grab my fancy and from then on I've been a loyal fan!

[Scientist2001]

I remember that when I was at primary school I could not watch the spiderman movie because we were just leaving my grandmom's house and going to our house. I was really very unhappy but next year hopefully I will watch this film in the cinema. I am really looking forward for this film.
Dear friends I have received my bachelor degree today. I hope the ones who are waiting their degrees can get them as they hope. Greetings!!!

[bioboost]

if i recall i believe i was about 3 or 4 with the old cartoon then s-m and the amazing friends in the early eightys that one i loved. nothing was better then the marvel action hour

[hova]

I was twelve

[vegetoson]

i was 6.

[electr0]

In 1983(I was 10)

[Sta1ker]

I was about 4 years old, living in the country, before cable was thought of. Only on days where the weather was "just right" could our TV get reception of the original cartoon series. Believe me I was glued when that familiar theme song came on.

[Spider_Monkey]

I don't see how any one could get past their 1st
few years of live with out knowing who spider-man is.

[centapede]

I was 9 years old when I read my first Spidey comic. Years later I saw his cartoon and have been singing the theme song since. I did like the Saturday morning show with his "amazing friends" as well.

[Wiffie]

I was 10 when I bought my first Spider-Man comic book. I had been a life-long fan of the Fantastic Four and there was an ad about the new comic coming out. I couldn't wait for it to hit the stands. I still have that first one. It is stored in my parents attic with therest of my old comics. I've got to decide what to do with this stuff.

[fired45]

I was about 6 when i watched the cartoon
but it wasn't the really old one it was the new ones (around 1993) i kinda went off from there.
cant wait for the movie =)

[myro]

I'm 28 now and back in 1977-75 there was a cartoon that came on channel 5 (I believe) that featured Spider-Man from where the song "Spider-Man Spider-Man Does Whatever A Spider Can, Spins A Web Any Size Catches Thieves Just Like Flies" song sprung from. Then if I remeber there was a cartoon that had Spider-Man one day then Captain America the next , then Iron -Man, then Thor, Prince Namor The Submariner, and The Incredible Hulk (or I think it switched to a diiferent character weekly...whatever). Then It went to Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (with Ice-Man & Firestar "which back then I thought was a HOT babe...literally and figuretivley). Then I started with the comics up to the present day of the Spider-Man cartoon that now appears on Fox 5.

[tsilnoitrom]

my family likes spiderman, he's a superhero i never was unknown of. i got hella posters of him now, he's my icon.senotfedian@aol.com

[qwenstacy]

I was about 7, in the 80s, those were the best years of my life...........sigh.....

[mystero]

I saw Spiderman cartoon show in the late 60's on Saturday Morning along with The Fantastic 4, Underdog, and the Herculoids. Cartoon shows on Saturday were in there heyday in the 60's and 70's. The Spiderman cartoon music was great. Very progressive music for the show. Especially when there was just only 1 epsiode for the half hour like when spiderman would go underground. The music would just be soo weird and way out. Spiderman is the greatest!!!!

[KANA]

I'd have to say that I was at least 9 or 10 years old. I got so engrossed into the Spiderman comics, I was immediately hooked. I felt that this guy was a real person with real problems, but he always found a way to get throught them, all the while still cracking the one-liners and kicking villian butt. He is and always will be my favorite superhero of all time.

[Bandak]

It was in 72. I was 6..... The things that keep me a spidey fan are the corny come backs and how he gets his butt kicked and then comes back for the win. I liked how more human the character of spiderman was over the invincible superheros in other comics. That might sound a bit geeky being spidey is fantasy but identifiable qualities sell a character more than larger than life superhuman abilities. Big deal for Superman to overcome a foe. The fight always seemed one sided, in Supermans' favor. Want real drama, check out your friendly neighborhood spiderman!

[webhead7777774]

It was in the late 1980s. I was watching tv one day and spiderman came on. I saw how he was sticking on to the buildings and webing everything. That was so cool!!! Hejust seemed so amazing. It was years before i saw him again until i was watching the daily show with jon stewert and Willem Dofoe was on talking about Shadow of the Vampire. He said that he was doing a spiderman movie. I thought, cool. I decided to refresh my memory about spiderman and i did some research. I found marvel.com and read the Ultimate Spider dot.comics. I was hooked, so now i am totally hooked.

[Chinaman]

...that's because I was three years old and had a Spider-Man pillow case and blanket. I kinda miss that blanket. <sniff>

[Dantz]

Well...I am old man and I can prove it.

In the late 50s and early sixties, I was an avid single digit aged comicbook reader of titles like Tales to Astonish, Strange Tales and Amazing Fantasy. This was before Marvel was Marvel really. Anyways, I got this comicbook with a story in it about a kid who was bitten by a radioative spider and voila...ended up with superpowers. Yep...for all you collectors...Amazing Fantasy #15... Spidey's debut. I think I was like 7 or 8 at the time...and am 50 now. And I still have the comic... or my nephew has them since I passed the collection off to him...every Marvel (missing 2 of Tales to Astonish starring Thor ... otherwise total collection of ALL Marvels including Millie and Patsy haha) ever been printed.
Anyways...I wasn't the youngest to have started collecting or watching Spidey...but I may be one of the longest running fan-relationships posted so far.

[Chinaman]

Before I even finished reading the first line of your message, I believe you. Wow, Amazing Fantasy #15. Holy ****, I wish I was around then. No wait a minute, then I'd have to deal with 'Nam latter on. Anywho, how much did the mag cost you back in the day?


Just outta curiousity, do you remember the 60's?

[jadair2000]

I can remember wearing a spiderman costume for Holloween when I was 5. Actually I can;t remember, but I do have the pictures to prove it. ****, I was cute then...What happened?

[spidey1818]

I was 5 when I first saw him but didn't start liking him till I was thriteen.I don't know maybe I was to young to understand.

[arachnophobia]

It's amazing to see the range of fans our beloved web slinger is able to muster. I was 4 when I learned to speak english whatching old-school cartoon, Spider-man, Spider-man, tan ta nuh, tan ta nuh Spidermaaaaan. I was hooked ever since. Remember the episode on the non-cartoon tv show when Spidey gets cloned. That was a good one. What I loved the most about his character was no matter how bad of a situation he was in he was always a smart ***.
Peace

[BlkMagick]

I was 7 and would watch the one with Spidey, Firestar, and Ice-man

[RootBeerBoy]

Hi. I'm new. The first time I saw Spider-man? hmmmmmm. well, I would say about 8. I don't remember how, but I thought he was the coolest thing. I love Spider-man. (well, duh!)see ya around.oh, and i used to watch the ones with Spidey, Firestar, and Iceman too! I have 2 tapes.

[1ty2bari]

I was about 8 yrs old..1969 That was when Spidey only had about 6 or 7 enemies.The baddest was The Green Goblin, then Kingpin, Shocker, Electro, Scorpion, Sandman Then Best Foe ever to me was Morbus.

[bigdavespider]

probably about 5 my father had gotten the early amazing spidey as a gag gift for his wedding and gave it to me, still have them today

[Gabrielle]

I was 3 or 4. My dad, who is a big fan of Spiderman, made a Spiderman drawing for me. Pity I didn´t keep it. What I do keep is a tiny Spiderman figure that came with a chocolate bar.

[Lebboy17]

I can remember Spidey for as long as i'm alive, but my most impressive memory is when i saw a dressed like Spidey at a convention in Harrisburgh.

[beatnik]

I was probably 2-3yrs old when I had my first recollection of Spider-Man.

This was in Carolina, Puerto Rico. It was a Saturday morning cartoon show that featured different cartoon stars, and spider-Man (and Mighty Mouse) were regulars. The last episode I remebered had Spidey falling to what appeared to be his doom as he dropped towards the spinning blades of a helicopter; I remember being upset because someone (either my mom or the guy on TV) had said that this would be the end/last show for Spider-Man. --I especially remembered the song.

"Spider-Man, Spider-Man --Does whatever a spider can... spins a web! Any size! Catches thieves just like flies! Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man!"**

Those were they days...

[HobbyG]

I was 5. I was playing the very first spidey game my dad had bought just the day before on super nintendo. Me and him would stay up day and night trying to beat to the game. I liked being venom so i could beat up everyone. Except the level where you were on the top of a building with Carnage and Double Ganger. Scary thought huh??

[Guide_Manilla]

I have to say I was about 7 years old when I saw the first Spider-Man cartoon. He truly was my favorite super heroe when I was growing up :)

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[meangreengoblin]

I was 5 and I saw the animated series of Spider-Man I thought all the characters were fascinating and then I bout a Lizard toy and it was my favorite thing then about 12-15 I lost interest in Spider-Man and then when the movie came out I started likeing it again and then thats when my favorite character became the Green Goblin.

Stand back for the real Goblin! The Green Goblin!

[simanith]

I don't remember the exact age but I was young. When other kids were talking Superman and Batman I was talkin' Spider-man. The character is just so real. Batman - Rich. Superman - Alien, and invincible. Spider-man - Just a nerd with super powers and trying to make ends meet at the same time. I've always admired the work and for thought that Stan Lee put into Peter Parker. He just seems so real.

[bacender]

i was 9, i woke up in the moring to get ready for school, and on one of the moring cartoon shows they were playing spiderman unlimited, i really loved the idea of a man having the abilities of a spider, it had killed me when they took spiderman off of the show, i went out into the internet and baught tonnes and tonnes of spiderman comics.

[carneladiel]

The first time I saw Spider-Man was, Let's see, Since I was 5 I believe. I Thought Spider-Man was cooler then the other superheros, But didn't REALLY start getting into him until I was around 13.