Wow, gotta love this old clip. I wonder what ever happened to the actors playing the part of MJ and Spidey. What an odd PR clip. The question “Is marrying Spider-Man a risky thing for the strip” was never answered because Stan’s ear piece fell out towards the end. Funny stuff and worth a look.
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Dang. If only he answered that question….. Oh yeah, and thats useful saying ‘Spider-man, also known as Peter Parker’ on a news station. Isn’t that the reason OMD happened? jk.
Exactly Combustible.
Stan didn’t do it to enrich the chracters. he did it to boost a flagging syndication at the request of his paymasters. It was all about the money– now that’s a fact.
And the writers were capable they just weren’t interested. Some of Spider-Man’s greatest writers have said marrying them was a mistake. Heck, even Stan the man is digging the new direction. And the fans that do like the marriage can read the alternate universe stories so everyone can have their cake.
Zarius says:
October 11th, 2008 at 6:58 am
“It did exactly what Stan knew it would do….it enriched the strip and gave writers who could handle it a whole new dimension.”
Are you sure about that? Where did you read about Stan’s PR intentions? Or maybe he told you, right? I think he did it for the same reason your name links to TV Rage.
MJ didnt suffer at all, her character was enriched more or less and she became a role-model with how she coped with Peter balancing his lives with her. He suffered as Peter thanks to Harry, and suffered as Spidey because of his daily routines in the coustume. She turned to smoking, she overcame stalkers, she held her ground against Harry in the same apartment…she was a hero, an equal, a soul mate. Any objective fan can see that. Her best stuff arguably came from the 1990s era of the character, which was the last consistently good one for the original timeline/
It did exactly what Stan knew it would do….it enriched the strip and gave writers who could handle it a whole new dimension. Those that opposed it? They werent good writers or they were writers that didnt want to go beyond a certain comfort zone of what they “used to enjoy”. Feeble, weak, cowardly Nostaliga is what killed the marraige, and it’ll be the vicious cycle of nostalgia that brings it bac. Fact.
Besides, the marraige is still around. Quesada still likes it, he just didnt want it clogging up the mainstream title.
Ultimately it would have an effect on the strip. Marrying them gave the strip a publicity boost for sure. But MJ’s chracter suffered as a sucession of writers who had no real interest in writing a married Spider-Man shoe horned her into stories leaving us with a number of attempts to reboot Spider-Man and seperate the two.