Spider-Boy (Marvel)
Spider-Boy is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Bailey Briggs was a male human who was born on Earth in the modern age. (Spider-Man v4 #7)
During one of their adventures, Peter once tried to alter his Spider-Sense so it would be similar to Bailey's. However, it did not work and Spider-Boy had to save Spider-Man in the process. (Spider-Man v4 #10)
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Overview
Personality and attributes
Among Madame Monstrosity's experiments, she came to label him as Subject Five. (Spider-Boy v2 #1) As a masked superhero, he went by the name of Spider-Boy and claimed to be Spider-Man's sidekick. (Spider-Man v4 #9)
As a result of a Multiversal incident, Bailey came to be erased from the timeline of Earth-616. Even after his return, all knowledge of him was gone from the memories of everyone on the world to the point that no one had heard of him. (Spider-Man v4 #8)
He knew both Peter Parker and Miles Morales being Spider-Man with him having many adventures alongside the two superheroes. (Spider-Man v4 #7) As Spider-Boy he classed himself as Spider-Man's partner and had been working with him for years. (Spider-Man v4 #9) In fact, he claimed that he was known as Spider-Man's sidekick. (Spider-Man v4 #10)
Despite her status as a villain, Screwball was said to be one of Bailey's favourite streamers. (Spider-Woman v8 #5)
Powers and abilities
He was shown to be strong enough to break through a stone wall with a single punch. (Superior Spider-Man v3 #1) Briggs was also able to break iron chains restraining him with little effort. (Spider-Boy v2 #6) His physical strength also extended to his legs, enabling him to jump heights of several stories in a single bound. (Edge of Spider-Verse v3 #3)
One of his natural traits was being able to cling and climb any surface by sticking to them. (Spider-Man v4 #9)
Another unique trait of Bailey was that he had the ability to communicate with spiders. This even extended to spiders from other worlds and dimensions. In one case, he was able to communicate with a giant monstrous spider from the Asgardian realms. (Spider-Boy v2 #3)
A unique trait of Spider-Boy was a psychometric sense where he could witness past events in his mind. This involve him touching an object or person whereby he would then experience visions of danger relating to the item or person. In some cases, this went as far to the point of him experiencing the pain of the person he saw in his vision. (Spider-Man v4 #8)
In the past, Bailey received some martial arts training from Daredevil to improve his fighting skills. (Spider-Man v4 #11)
As a superhero, he wore a special costume similar to Spider-Man's Suit. (Spider-Man v4 #7) At one point, Spider-Boy was provided some Web-Shooters by Spider-Man though these had been taken from him by his mentor. (Superior Spider-Man v3 #1
Notes
- Spider-Boy was created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos where he made his first appearance in Spider-Man v4 #7 (April, 2023).
- As noted on his Twitter, a prior character named Spider-Boy was part of the Amalgam Comics universe with that version being Peter Ross who was part of a collaboration between Marvel Comics and DC Comics which merged Ben Reilly with Superboy Kon-El. Dan Slott would create the Marvel Comics Spider-Boy when he found out that he could legally use that name, though he had had the idea for the character for 'some time'.
Appearances
- Spider-Man v4: (2023)
- Edge of Spider-Verse v1:
- Spider-Boy v2:
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