Here are all the Spider comic covers. Except the embarrassing The Spider Presents: Quiver which I never really understood. To make up for that omission -- or, really, that whole dark episode -- I submit to you my own fantasy Spider Comics (1940) cover.

Eclipse Books (1990-92)
Tim Truman brings The Spider into the '90s ("as imagined in the '30s") in a cool hooded getup reminiscent of his own creation The Prowler.

Book One		Book Two		Book Three		Interior
Book One		Book Two		Book Three

Insight Studios (1999)
Mark Wheatley gives us the one, true Spider in all his lank-haired, vampire-like glory. Popular always shied away from this look on their covers, but not Mark!

Cover

Rough

Rough art

Portrait

Vanguard Publishing (2004)
I love Gene Colan's art. But I only like his version of The Spider -- an update that seems to be based on the dashing coverboy that Popular Publications used to obscure The Spider's true nature.

Cover

Hardcover

Sketch

Ad

What If ...? (1940s)
WHAT IF there HAD been a Spider comic book in the 1940s? After collecting many Street & Smith Shadow and Doc Savage comics from the period I started to imagine what Popular Publication might have done. I can definitely see them using the very comics-friendly serial version of the costume ... and I couldn't resist throwing in superheroish versions of Operator #5 and G-8 ...

Golden Age