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    Spider-Man’s sticking power

    by Eliana Dockterman Dec 17, 2018 4 minutes
    In one of Into the Spider-Verse’s many parallel worlds, Peter’s friend Gwen Stacy gets bitten by the radioactive spider. She becomes the hero and Peter the one who needs saving

    IN A YEAR SO STUFFED WITH COMIC-BOOK CHARACTERS that 26 superheroes jockeyed for the chance to punch one purple alien in Avengers: Infinity War, you might be forgiven for feeling a little superhero fatigue. Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man—who, despite his modest moniker, has starred in no fewer than eight live-action movies in 16 years—has become the most overexposed superhero of all.

    This year alone, the webslinger starred in three huge projects: Infinity War, a Spider-Man video game and now an animated film called Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, out Dec. 14. And yet all three were met with widespread acclaim and commercial success (if early box-office predictions for Into the Spider-Verse are to be trusted, at least). That list excludes Venom, an offbeat film about Spider-Man’s villainous doppelgänger, but

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