{"id":3506,"date":"2011-07-31T23:21:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T03:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2011-07-31T23:21:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T03:21:47","slug":"when-spider-man-was-the-spiderman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/31\/when-spider-man-was-the-spiderman\/","title":{"rendered":"When Spider-Man was &#8220;The Spiderman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always prided myself on knowing in my bones that it&#8217;s Spider-Man (with a hyphen) and Superman (without), and I recently gave somebody I know a smackdown for leaving out that all-important hyphen. But I see now that even Marvel itself got mixed up at first, as this page from <em>Amazing Fantasy <\/em> #15 (Spidey&#8217;s debut, remember?) proves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AmazingFantasy15Announcement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AmazingFantasy15Announcement-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"AmazingFantasy15Announcement\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AmazingFantasy15Announcement-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AmazingFantasy15Announcement-706x1024.jpg 706w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AmazingFantasy15Announcement.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The third paragraph refers to the web-slinger not just as &#8220;Spiderman,&#8221; but as &#8220;<em>The<\/em> Spiderman&#8221;&#8212;something that as a former Marvel Comics proofreader makes my skin crawl!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure this wasn&#8217;t the last time Marvel messed up &#8230; but at least now I understand why others might get it wrong, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always prided myself on knowing in my bones that it&#8217;s Spider-Man (with a hyphen) and Superman (without), and I recently gave somebody I know a smackdown for leaving out that all-important hyphen. But I see now that even Marvel itself got mixed up at first, as this page from Amazing Fantasy #15 (Spidey&#8217;s debut, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,20,23],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}