# Spiderman is married again, or: Stan Lee has no spine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596 "2009-05-25T19:30:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/1 "2009-05-25T19:30:08Z")
Actually, is Stan Lee still in charge at Marvel? Anyway, apparently [Peter dreamed](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllJustADream) [the last few months](http://joshreads.com/?p=3176). I’m glad that the stupid thing is no longer the case, but is this really the best way to do it? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/2 "2009-05-25T20:04:31Z")
Did the actual comic reset, too, or just the newspaper comic (which has always been a different continuity, IIRC)? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/3 "2009-05-25T20:26:49Z")
Pet peeve alert! It’s “Spider-Man” not “Spiderman”. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/4 "2009-05-25T21:43:42Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Did the actual comic reset, too, or just the newspaper comic (which has always been a different continuity, IIRC)? Comic is still says that selling your spouse out to the devil is the right thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/5 "2009-05-25T21:53:33Z")
> [@Just\_Some\_Guy](#): > > Comic is still says that selling your spouse out to the devil is the right thing to do. In that case, I can’t get too incensed about any lack of spine. The newspaper comic has always been a joke. It’s a perennial feature at the Comics Curmudgeon just because it’s so goddamn DUMB. They dumb down Spidey, they dumb down the villains. Peter Parker doesn’t do anything but watch TV. Spider-Man can barely catch a cold, let alone a villain. Until the villains get really stupid. Comic-book Electro would disavow any relationship whatsoever with comic-strip Electro, for instance. Spidey was once taken out by a falling BRICK, fer gawshsakes! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/6 "2009-05-26T00:08:42Z")
I think this is Stan taking a stand rather than lack of spine. Remember that the unmarriage was Joe Quesada’s idea, not Stan’s. I think Stan only pretended to go along with it for a while, but generally prefers Spidey married. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/7 "2009-05-26T00:15:31Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > Actually, is Stan Lee still in charge at Marvel? No. He hasn’t been in charge at Marvel for years. More than a decade, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/8 "2009-05-26T01:59:53Z")
Forget Marvel; does Stan Lee have anything to do with the syndicated newspaper strip? Wikipedia sez he wrote it in the seventies, but now it seems like it only exists out of inertia, like those other legacy strips Fruhlinger makes fun of. And **TBG**? [CITE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_other_media#Newspaper_strip)! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/9 "2009-05-26T04:59:55Z")
> [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](#): > > Forget Marvel; does Stan Lee have anything to do with the syndicated newspaper strip? Wikipedia sez he wrote it in the seventies, but now it seems like it only exists out of inertia, like those other legacy strips Fruhlinger makes fun of. > > And **TBG**? [CITE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_other_media#Newspaper_strip)! That’s not a cite, this is a [cite](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/spidermn/aboutMaina.php?date=20090405&view_comic=Get+Comic). \ ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/10 "2009-05-26T05:25:51Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Pet peeve alert! > > It’s “Spider-Man” not “Spiderman”. Spider-man swings from building to building catching villains. Spiderman, Mort Spiderman, does your taxes and makes a mean matzah ball. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/11 "2009-05-29T17:44:44Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > No. He hasn’t been in charge at Marvel for years. More than a decade, in fact. :cough: more like three decades and change. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-is-married-again-or-stan-lee-has-no-spine/497596/12 "2009-05-29T19:29:31Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > :cough: more like three decades and change. Which is more than a decade. (Which happened to be as early as I could confirm without googling. Which, now that I’ve done it, only brings up actual dates for his tenure as editor, not saying when he left his later president and chairman positions.)