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Robbie Parry
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Posted: 27 September 2018 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

You both make valid points.

And I suppose, whilst not the same, we still watch cop and legal dramas. I can and do read police reports in the local media, and I could watch a court case from the public gallery, but I would still watch police and legal dramas.

I know that's different from superheroes, obviously. 
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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 27 September 2018 at 2:41pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Amazing Spider-Man Annual #11 ('70s) had a movie being filmed in Peter Parker's and Mary Jane Watson's neighborhood, and when something goes wrong with the actor in a spider monster costume Spider-Man is paid to take the stunt man's place. Then "the Spider-Squad" who are three similar spider monster types attack him. Not sure if the movie ever got finished.

Marvel actually published some one-shots of Marvels Comics where they are what might get published in the Marvel comics 'world'... Thor isn't really a god but a guy with a lot of gadgets to make him seem like a real Thor (readers wouldn't believe in a real ancient norse god existing), and Spider-Man and The X-Men are shown as menaces. The Fantastic Four comic boasts of being the only officially licensed comic by the real FF. I thought of picking them all up at one time but the covers put me off somehow, whereas the Flashback series minus #1s having those retro covers got me to buy even some of the most '90s excess style ones (now I've started on that  '90s DC 'Silver Age' run of 12 one-shots having gotten the Amagams I had any interest in).
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Eric Sofer
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Posted: 27 September 2018 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Of course, in TWO Fantastic Four Annuals, the FF were in movies. FF Annual #1 had Namor make an actual movie, so as not to how them off guard while he tried to destroy them; and the actual movie was released. And in FF Annual #12 (as memory serves), there was another FF movie, with a Farrah Fawcett type playing Sue Richards in a bikini type costume, and a giant Thing robot which (of course) ended up fighting the real Thing.

As for a Spider-Man movie... I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to make a fictional film about him. I recall one or two movies in the real world about Bigfoot, and several fictionalized history movies and plays about real characters. Maybe even a musical about a president of the United States. I could see someone simply doing a Spider-Man treatment... after all, it's not as if Spidey were going to sue.

The in-universe comics were Marvels Comics.

Talking about motivations and about deep character analysis is okay, I suppose; heaven knows we do enough of it here. But it seems that some people are trying to make an awful lot of soup from just one bone. 
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 27 September 2018 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Going back to the original thread topic, I think you can make some kind of argument that Spider-Man does have horror ingredients of the era in his make-up, but I don't think you can argue he is a horror character at all.

He is not a horror character disguised in the trappings of a superhero; he is simply a superhero.
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