Salon.com, Bleeding Cool, Jezebel.com and others have all reported on growing controversy over an alternative Spider-Girl costume made available for this year’s Halloween. It’s clear where the differences in the Mayday Parker uniform and the actual costume lie. What do you think? Comment below!
Donovan Grant
View articlesTypical college aged comic fan who wants to write and draw in the biz
You might be interested in …
Spider-Variants of the Week 5/6/26
by Mohammed
What Variant Will You Be Picking Up This Week? Amazing Spider-Man #28 Incentive All-New Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #10 Astonishing Miles Morales: Spider-Man #1
Spider-Man Collector Spotlight: Sy Winnie
by Brad Douglas
Be sure to check out our live interview with Spider-Man Mega-Collector Sy Winnie. He is giving me a tour of his collection on Sunday November 11th at 6pm central.
12 Comments
Leave a Reply
Crawlspace Discord

Social
Recent Comments
Evan Berry on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@Bruce, not Groos — Thank you for that! I didn’t realize it was a specific word, made up or not.…” Jun 22, 06:57
Bruce Wechtenhiser on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@evan berry @hornacek the word in the song was a made up word, “groos”, according to Jeff Lynne, the writer/singer…” Jun 21, 21:47
Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@Evan Berry: Unfortunately, until this issue I thought ELO was saying “Bruce!” I am fine with supervillains updating their look…” Jun 21, 13:48
Evan Berry on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “As always, another great review! I knew that ELO isn’t saying Bruce, but I have no idea what they’re actually…” Jun 21, 10:57
Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@Bruce Wechtenhiser: I’m always scanning the letters page for any Crawlspace related names, so yours immediately stuck out. I didn’t…” Jun 20, 06:38
Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “Whoops, I had copied Paul’s comment to write my reply and forgot to delete the rest of it before posting!” Jun 20, 06:37
Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@Paul Penna: Is it possible that May and Ben’s baby was honestly mixed up with another baby? Possibly, but in…” Jun 20, 06:35
Treyvon Williams on Spider-Variants of the Week 6/17/26: “I love that German Peralta cover.” Jun 19, 22:33
Bruce Wechtenhiser on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “Thanks for mentioning my heartwarming letter published in this issue! Unfortunately, someone forgot to change the cover image from last…” Jun 19, 21:01
Paul Penna on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “Okay, confession, I haven’t read a Spider-Man comic since 8 Deaths started. Well, not current Spider-Man. I’ve been picking up…” Jun 19, 18:18


My brother suggested I might like this website. He was once entirely right.
This put up truly made my day. You can not imagine simply how a lot time I had spent for this
information! Thanks!
Look at my website: pulling-Oil.Com
I visited multiple websites however the audio feature for audio songs current at this site is actually
fabulous.
my blog post: black hairstyles magazine
You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this
topic to be really something which I think I would never understand.
It seems too complex and very broad for me. I’m
looking forward for your next post, I’ll try to get the hang of it!
Well, it is a Halloween costume, which are never, top notch accurate. Most aren’t. To most of the world, and I’d venture to say the comic community as a whole, Spider-Girl is a very obscure character and I would doubt the amount of time and money would be put into character’s that are relatively unknown to the mass market of parents and kids. This Spider-Girl costume is a pink costume with a dress and a mask. It takes the pink that is seen with most “girl” versions of a costume, like with pink Superman capes to show Supergirl, and puts Spider-Man in it. Most of the time Batgirl costumes are the exact same format as this but black and yellow. The makers of this costume honestly did not care about the integrity of the character’s history and accuracy in comics. They wanted to make something people would think of as Spider Man but for a little girl because the actual costume would get confused for a knock off Spider-Man costume. The accuracy of a costume is left to awesome fan parents or awesome cosplayers, not corporations who try to make cash of selling characters.
@ #7-But then why not make it authentic. I mean Supergirl and Batgirl costumes have been around a long while and they don’t look half as different from their distaff counterparts’ as Spider-Girl’s does.
The problem with Spider-Girl’s is that looks just like Spider-Man costume to anybody that doesn’t know anything about comics. Most grown women won’t want to cover their whole face and hair but atleast if they wore an authentic one their body would show they are female. Little girls with that costume will be confused by people as boys wearing Spider-Man costumes. Heck my girls are Batgirl and Robin this year and my older one keeps getting confused by people as being Batman, even tgough her hair is showing and the costume has a skirt.
@#4-It doesn’t have to be form fitting, it can just use the design. I don’t see why Disney don’t cover their bases and put this new suit, the Mayday parker suit and a Spider Woman suit (Jessica Drew, Julia Carpenter’s is essentially a venom suit) on the market.
That costume is made of dumb, and that is all I will say about that.
My daughter wore the pink costume a few years ago, and she loved it.
I think that Mayday’s traditional costume is great and all, but the problem is that a lot of parents…myself included…would have a problem with their kid going out in a form-fitting skin-tight leotard. Besides, this is a Halloween costume, not a comic book convention…most people who don’t read comics wouldn’t understand the reference anyway.
Also why is it a big deal to make changes to the costume design? Hell, they do it to Spider-Man every 6 months or so in the comics.
I liked the first line of the Salon article about Spider-Girl being the Spider-Spawn of Spider-Man and his Spider-Love, Mary Jane. That’s just a lovely way to refer to her.
The last picture of various costumes in the Bleeding Cool article looks great. Why couldn’t they have made that one but in a child’s size?
I’m picturing Zach making up a protest sign and heading for his nearest department store.
I agree with Enigma. I am impressed that some of those sites that don’t report on comics kinda took notice and did some basic research that rarely happens anymore. What I do find weird why Spider-girl and not Spider-Woman?
I think someone needs to learn how to make a proper Spider-Girl costume.