C2E2: Celebrating 60 Years Of Spider-Man With Mike Del Mundo And Skottie Young

Marvel Comics was at C2E2 this past weekend and held several Spider-Man celebrating the character’s 60th anniversary. On Saturday, Mike Del Mundo And Skottie Young held court to celebrate 60 years of Amazing, Spectacular, and Sensational Spider-Man.

Play-by-play of the panel:

Everyone is welcomed to the Amazing, Spectacular, Sensational Spider-Man panel. It’s joked that fans of the “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,” however, won’t be accommodated today.

Mike Del Mundo and Skottie Young are introduced. Young jokes that it’s funny that the two guys who showed up are cover guys.

They’re asked what their first exposure to Spider-Man was.

Del Mundo says his was the “Double Trouble” safety PSA comic.

Young says his was Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, the cartoon.

“To me, it’s funny now that I understand all the stuff of Spider-Man, but my version had a fireplace that you pull a statue and it turns around to a computer lab.”

It also provided an inroad to every other part of the Marvel Universe because there was a guest star every other episode.

He also remembers watching the Nicholas Hammond live-action show, but it’s probably for the best he doesn’t remember it — no offense to Nicholas Hammond.

They’re asked what the point was where they really knew they dug the character.

Del Mundo says Todd McFarlane and then Erik Larsen.

Young says Todd was sick, but Erik gets overlooked. Hypes his Sinister Six arc.

Young also cites a Doc Ock book that told his origin and framed him as more of a tragic/sympathetic figure.

“Spider-Man’s the one figure that we feel like we can all connect.” — Young

He says a lot of comics are about middle-aged dudes, and you think, “You should be old enough to maybe deal with these issues a little bit better.”

He says a lot of comics are about middle-aged dudes, and you think, “You should be old enough to maybe deal with these issues a little bit better.”