Marvel Legends Retro Collection Web-man
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Created from Doctor Doom’s “Twin Machine”, Web-man was made as an evil opposite copy of the Amazing Spider-man. The only problem was, the reverse copy effect was too effective. Since Peter Parker is a genius, Web-man was a clod and easily defeated by the wall-crawler. I think the writers back then were basically trying to rip-off Bizarro from the Superman comics when they made this guy.
The figure is a redeco of the older PS4 Gamerverse “Advanced suit Spider-man” body, rather than a reuse of the latest “vintage” Spider-man body type.
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The character Web-man is listed as hailing from Earth-57780, appearing in Spidey Super Stories #25 way back in May, 1977. The fate of the duplicate Spider-man is left unknown after Spidey destroys the machine and arrests Doctor Doom.
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It’s too bad that we don’t get any weblines for this guy to work with, all he comes with are extra hands.
Overall, not bad, but not too great. I just picked this guy up since it looked like a neat “Bizarro” version of Spider-man (which was the intended effect back in the day I suppose), but I do wish Hasbro used the new vintage collection Spider-man body for this figure instead of the Gamerverse Advanced suit buck. A few added accessories wouldn’t be bad either.
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