Meet SPIDER-WOMAN...And Her Hair - Spider-Woman #1

Welcome to Casually Comics today we're looking at Spider-Woman Jessica Drew and her number 1 issue...from the 70s. It's a Marvel comics classic; gear up for a wild ride of mad scientists, surprise love interests, and great hair!
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[@kosmajozwiak7830]

"Died of plotconveniencitis!" Best line. I will use that whenever possible.

[@dhorubaPRIME]

The best quote ever! "Stop being so thirsty! Take a drink......" ❤️

[@alienalchemist]

Sounds like a soda tagline.

[@euansmith3699]

Soup! 😄

[@judashegarty6229]

Spiderwoman has a great unique look. She has great covers. The hair completes the costume. I find her pheremone predicament to be interesting and compelling. In the issues I've read, her tagline "to know her is to fear her" is well executed and works for the story. Definitely a cool character.

[@1monki]

The night guard was 2 weeks from retirement, cut him some slack.

[@johnathonhaney8291]

Spiderwoman was always just an intriguing image when I was a kid. That was mostly due to the awfully animated cartoon from the 1970s, which had her be a 1930s wisecracking screwball comedy girl. This is way more interesting...and insane!

[@johnathonhaney8291]

@@hydrolito It was the best turn of phrase that I had to describe her "character": all quips, snappy turns of phrase and the sort of plucky determination that was baked into early 20th Century American film depictions of female characters. It was light, fluffy and unmemorable to me. Good thing she had the costume!

[@MrTumshie]

"Take a soup!" At long last Sasha, I think you've finally hit upon a catch phrase that works! I'm now looking forward to watching you crowbar it into many future videos. Please?!

[@Phreemunny]

I had this comic as a kid! Really wish I hadn’t lost it. It was truly one of my favorites

[@ps1mrlee]

Engagement on this page is super high. Couldn’t be on a nicer channel. Lovely to see.

[@Darkgreenfangirl]

The funny thing is I am a person that can't reconize a person if they change their hair. Though that may be because I'm bad with faces. I'm actually just getting into Spider-woman thanks to the new number one, so this video was nicely timed for me. Fun video as always

[@toddnolastname4485]

They have a name for that. Can't remember what it is. It was mentioned in a video about Superman, why no one Clark works with can recognize him.

[@AshamtlyLopez]

@Aces Spades ohhhh I have that! Never knew it was an actual thing

[@AllCoolThingsStoneMountain]

I thought you were going to go into the fact that her main costume ended up having a wig made a part of it. THAT was her great hair.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

One thing I miss about Marvel dads in modern comics and the MCU: They are BAD DADS like Jessica's!

[@MagillanicaLouM]

"That's great Jerry. You're off the case"

[@jonmorris293]

5:10 I think he was thirsty AF because of her pheromones (before that plot point was introduced)

[@brianbohn2658]

EXACTLY! Pheromone-induced "thirst".

[@jperkinsart]

Farscape was an awesome show. One of my favorites.

[@JennySparkz]

Grozit!! Son of a HAZMOT!!! FRELL!!!!!!! It really was. Verrry out there. Also Loved the Stargate parody wayyy back when.

[@CountOrlok22]

You've completely won me over as a viewer in three vids. LOL! I grew up with Jessica Drew's Spider-Woman and those early issues had a huge impact on me. Also, huge "Farscape" fan, and there is something really refreshing and endearing about a story that is so imaginative and audacious that it gets carried away in its own telling.

[@offthedeepend5354]

Whoa... Farscape was perfection.

[@jpistolas]

Thank you so much for not only diving into the weirdness that's 70s comics but mostly for mentioning Farscape!

[@1bruceeric]

Love Farscape!, also Sasha.

[@elrondorio]

Great review - your hair gallery was a nice bonus!

[@Kastila]

4:20 *Is a Brit* *is in pain* *is gonna keep watching anyway!*

[@CasuallyComics]

Welcome to the life of my British friends lol

[@Vox-Multis]

@@CasuallyComics Hey, at least you pronounced "can't" correctly! That's one a lot of amateurs get wrong.

[@nooctip]

Turner D century, Grinder, and Gypsy Moth. Yeah her rouges gallery was never the greatest, but I did enjoy her original run.

[@Zilegil]

Gypsy Moth sounds like a pub

[@landreaulover]

Brothers Grimm were kinda cool -- and Morgan Le Fey is awesome! But then guys like the Needle, so yeah.

[@DSan-kl2yc]

Grindr? Heh

[@andrewpoirier9153]

The story that really made me connect with and see Jessica Drew as a hero was the 2009 Agent of SWORD run, which takes place after the Secret Invasion. They really crack her open and dissect her on an emotional level.

[@unigenius]

The shot of Stan Lee burning money with his cigar while laughing is the best!

[@jdlewis3706]

BTW: Speaking of Characters artists don't want to touch, when artist Keith Giffen co-created Jack of Hearts, he created such a complicated costume for Jack that artists didn't want to draw him! Artist & critic Fred Hembeck once illustrated a column on that very topic. By the end of the column, Jack of Hearts was being illustrated in extreme close-up head shots! PS: That wonderful cover to Spider-Woman #1 was illustrated by Marvel Comics industry legend Joe Sinnott!

[@richmcgee434]

Heh. And then Jack registers on what Fred was doing and beats him up off-panel when the POV continues to track upward. Classic stuff. As good a gag as him getting trampled by the entire Legion of Superheroes.

[@yaboykurty6445]

Jessica Drew is forever one of my favorite heroes!

[@darthsneaky]

I've always been drawn to that iconic costume. Your explanation of her character has me hooked! I'm collecting her 1st series now. Great show!

[@richardleatherman5075]

Wasn't there a time when someone grabbed Spider-Woman's long hair, revealing that it' was just a wig attached to her mask?

[@hotgritz4sho]

I’m just hearing that for the first time after watching this video. If Marvel introduces her into the MCU (maybe through Doctor Strange,) it would be cool to explore her 2 different hair colors as an homage to the source material.

[@garybthecasualcomicguy5136]

Great video. I've followed Jessica Drew since the 80's. Always been one of my favorites and your videos on her are fantastic.

[@joshuacaulfield]

Thank you for the hair share, that was fun. Also, while I am late to your channel, it is really reminding me of the reason I love comics. Cheers.

[@jimkirk4357]

Okay you sold me. The FARSCAPE anology was what did it. Unpredictable and really completely chaotic! You say that like it's a bad thing. LOL

[@BlackWolfessUSCM]

Don't worry I do a fantastic Australian accent for Captain Boomerang, to which my Aussie friend says "Don't ever do that again." xD

[@richmcgee434]

I had the whole first run when I was a kid. You aren't kidding about that last issue "kill the lead" thing being jarring as hell. Then again, there was always a lot of out of nowhere stuff, not least of which being the whole Morgana le Fay as her nemesis swerve. On the plus side, the series did produce one of my favorite one-off "villains" of that era, that being Ramsey Kole/Daddy Longlegs. He was such a very strange concept for an un-villain, or at least a sympathetic one. Kind of epitomized the kind of out-of-nowhere random weirdness that Jessica had to contend with in her book.

[@martinhanke1670]

Love the voices you do. Great vid.

[@omarlawrence5239]

Love the personal pictures. Awesomeness. 👋🏾

[@TheIantoJones]

Thank you for this great video!

[@russellharrell2747]

Bonus Sasha fashion montage showing of some fabulous hair styles!

[@DoctorVell]

I Iove your channel, you do great reviews of comics and also an education on the history of the characters as well

[@unigenius]

I love Spider-Woman! Around the time the first Avengers movie came out, I had written a story that would be the Spider-Woman movie. It told her origin as a daughter of a military scientist that's working on a way to duplicate the super soldier serum using his research on spiders. She gets hurt, he injects her hoping it will help. She ends up in a coma for 4 years and wakes up with spider powers (this is around the time of the first Iron Man movie). The military forces her and Jonathan to stay there because his research they were funding is now in her. So they train her in combat and infiltration and how to conceivably use her powers for the next four years. Then they codename her Spider-Woman. She goes on a few missions with some classmates all to get this dangerous tech out of the hands of groups like AIM, Roxxon and stuff like that. Her closest friend, a blond girl, has trouble with figuring a codename. In the final mission, she is sent to an Air Force Base where there is a new volatile isotope they're sure someone will try to take. So they've got to protect it. While there, she meets Theoretical Astrophysicist Matt Lawson and Major Carol Danvers, the ones who discovered the isotope. While alone, Jessica tries to sneakily grab the isotope, but is stopped by a taser from the shadows. Then out steps Black Widow. "I was wondering when HYDRA would make their move!" Then its revealed to the audience that Jessica and her dad have been working for HYDRA this whole time! Jess fights Black Widow and Carol. Jess can't beat them nor can she escape without a distraction. So she decides to blow up the isotope. Carol tries to save it, but gets caught in the blast. Lawson saves her, but she's badly hurt. Spider-Woman uses the confusion to slip away and return to HYDRA Island. Her dad is mysteriously gone from the island. The higher ups say he's assigned to somewhere else. Her blond classmate excitedly tells her that she's come to a conclusion on her own codename. And she's chosen "Titania." Then the movie ends. That's how it worked. But then, Captain America: Winter Soldier came out and RUINED it by getting rid of HYDRA!!!!

[@vasp99]

I have the entire original run of Spider Woman. It was a little confusing to read for me at the time but Carmine Infantino loved his work for the series and I was a fan. It sucked that they killed her but then they treated Ms Marvel one hell of a lot worse than mere death.

[@KellyKMc]

Superhero costume designers spend a great deal of time ensuring their designs will accentuate every single one of the wearer’s marvelous super-human abs.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

2:20 That's where you got the desire with the multitude of hair colors and designs !

[@TA3DArtist]

Also: I watch your vids almost daily so, thanks for being awesome, Sasha. I've spread your videos around the game studio. Hopefully some of the gang will follow you. :D

[@zer0luv]

OMG, I love Farscape! & Your hair!

[@GeeksandGrub]

Farscape was awesome. Anyone tells you different, cut them out of your life. You don't need that kind of frelling negativity.

[@daverhoden445]

Hell yeah.

[@toddnolastname4485]

Farscape was ... okay. I can't see myself going back to watch it for at least 20 years. But I've watched TNG twice in the last 10 years. I think.

[@alankohn6709]

I have watch Farscape maybe 6 times since it's run I loved how the characters weren't static and I hope rumour of its return are true because we need that level of great story telling again.

[@timsmalley7432]

"Wundergore mountain: Avengers" needs to happen. Spider-Woman Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver all team up with Bova

[@ps1mrlee]

At 10:37, Sasha asks what she was thinking when going blonde. I see nothing particularly wrong with that look. You do you, Sasha, but just saying...

[@euansmith3699]

Who were all those women with different coloured hair? They looked vaguely familiar. These review videos are so refreshing; striking off the beaten path, in to the wild and weird thickets of comic book history. I'm just waiting for "Jimmy Olsen: Superman's Girlfriend".

[@jamesdietz29]

F A R S C A P E!!! I'd love to see you review this show! It is one of my all time favorites!

[@criminalisticL3]

Spencer Rogers Good video Sasha! The thing I disagree with you about is that Spiderwoman speaks with a British accent. Bendis and Hopeless said that she speaks with one. Also, personally prefer that she does because as an American I love British accents and I think it’s cool marvel has prominent superhero that isn’t magic based To answer your question I LOVE Jessica’s look on the cover. I like you said the hair and the red and yellow costume really made me a fan of the character.

[@Hogtownboy1]

Ms .Wood Its great to see you have found your new home . i believe you are one of best presenter on KZbin

[@dhorubaPRIME]

I like the PC background with the desk over the red!

[@aaronbrown3955]

Farscape was awesome! Loved that show.

[@emilycrow8278]

"No stealing is wrong and I can't steal food to survive, so instead I will just commit property damage!"

[@Hypestyle]

Cast Jaclyn Smith circa 1978 as Jessica Drew! Make it happen, time machine!!

[@chihiromononoke9381]

Spider-Woman is awesome.

[@tomlegore5615]

Jessica Drew is my favorite Spiderwoman

[@matthewdavies2057]

It's your personality that makes these vid's watchable. And The Bounce but I digress. If you weren't already off the menu I'd order you to go. Keep up the good work.

[@mrbruce307]

Thanks for this video. Lady you are full of facts...dang.

[@landreaulover]

I didn't read her Marvel Spotlight story until years later, but I liked her right away in Marvel Two-In-One. At that time, I preferred the skincap over the long hair (which was actually a wig -- so no idea why she also dyed her hair!). Tony DeZuniga's artwork lent a European (well, actually Brazilian, I think) flavor to Infantino's artwork that I though worked better than the embellishers that followed. Wolfman had some misses, but love the Morgan Le Fey appearances. Brothers Grimm were interesting as well. I dropped the book during the Waxman story (ewww), but picked it up again when Spider-Man guest-starred in a very run of the mill story. And then it got worse -- really bad story and art until Steve Leiloha came along. It wasn't until Chris Claremont joined him that the book really kicked into gear -- alas too late to save it from cancellation. The last 4 issues by Ann Nocenti and Brian Postman didn't thrill me, but they were just there to see the book through to the final, 50th issue.

[@dadsfreetimeclassicgaming1220]

@10:00 a baseball cap is the best disguise ever.

[@paulwatson3194]

Spider Woman #1 is the only comic book I bought twice. Once as a kid that I later traded for something. And later as an adult when I found it in a long box in a comic book shop.

[@zxfullgrand2535]

Non-activated though possibly very commital Roy Mustang, for a second, made me think he had no occupation.

[@cookieDaXapper]

Great retrospective to coincide with the new "reboot"?? as a child reading the old Spiderwoman i always had the impression that her spy training had her self deluded, which was the reasoning for plot inconsistencies. (i didn't quite understand changes in writers/styles affecting the characters then, aaahhhh, innocence.) Always so very nicely presented miss Wood, thank you for your time, perspective, and hard work. PEACE awesome Lady, God bless.

[@ProfessorGamez]

Great to see you, Sasha. Stay beautiful and stay safe.

[@blueduck3576]

Love the fact that you said "Huzzah". You've read a lot of comics Sasha! Next you should tackle the meaning of "Oh My Stars and Garters"?

[@jamesmcclure3907]

10:33 - Sasha sans glasses!!!

[@shiningstar6659]

Love your hair and all the colors. Spider Woman was cool. Take care of yourself.

[@thomasestes5747]

Spiderwoman with the good hair.

[@alexanderf8451]

I had no idea Jessica's origin was tied to the High Evolutionary. He's probably my favorite Marvel "villain". How many people develop super powers and a god complex and then decide to dedicate themselves to being a good father to their blasphemous creations?

[@elvampiro89]

Always one of my all time favorite characters,and nest of all the women to use the mantle Spider Woman. Mattie Franklin was a good idea thar just has no direction...still, I'm amazed she's stayed dead so long...other than a brief reanimation in Silk along with Jonah Jamesons wife...

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Sasha: You are beautiful regardless of your hair color...❤️

[@yenu4683]

Spider-Woman seems really cool

[@eleventy7]

6:06 You really think they would have gone with a cockroach instead, or maybe a tardigrade.

[@Ineedgames]

Should have used her Magical spider angel.

[@toddnolastname4485]

Is that why Jessica Drew was used in the Wolverine solos? At first, he was going to be a real wolverine turned humanoid, one of the High Evolutionary's ani-men.

[@toddnolastname4485]

Would a woman really choose to wear a costume with two colors that outline their bust like that?

[@Matthew.E.Kelly.]

I *love* Jessica Drew and always have, after Ms. Marvel she was my comic book heroine fav for most of my youth and adulthood. Growing up as a kid I never saw as much of her as I did the X-Men, however, and didn't get to own very much of her stuff until much, much later. Here I am 40 years old and I finally have all the collected editions, the Masterworks, the Bendis reboot, etc. The Avengers arcs featuring her are always fun, Strike Force is awesome (although I'm glad she's *striking* out on her own now... oh god, bad pun), the team-ups for Spider-Verse were amazing... she's so much more than a Spider-Man clone, which is important. She doesn't feel comfortable with who she is and trying to "fit in", as it were, and never has. She has a difficult path in life. Average/regular people who know about her don't easily trust her, she has an infamously criminal and questionable past. Augmented people and the "supes" or "capes" don't always trust her - for the same reason. Neither side really accepts her. Plus there's the whole pheromone thing! The X-Men have it bad because they protect a society that doesn't totally accept them, and some of them look weird; meanwhile Drew can make anyone attracted to her, and even have them do her bidding, with her pheromones. But a generally "normal human" appearance just makes her *more* terrifying to some. In all she has middle-child syndrome, never feeling quite good enough for society, always doubting herself. And barring the rare exceptions where society wants to either worship mutants (which is weird) or deify augmented humans like Captain America (also weird), people just don't accept "different" still. You'd think this cliche would get old and that we'd run out of ways of applying this fact to storytelling, but it doesn't. What's come to define her and is a great contrast from her origin is that she does the right thing even when she's not certain it's the right thing. She knows society better than she knows herself, and she'll always doubt herself because of her murky, questionable origins. One of the best recurring Spider-Woman jokes is the butt joke, though.

[@kasandrenhayes6359]

I have this issue. It's one of my all time favorites. And I've always wondered why they retconed her backstory so much when she is tied to such a major villain! A lot of material for a great character that they are just wasting! Loved the hair, loved the pheromones.

[@DSan-kl2yc]

Which retcon? I can kinda understand the spider to human one. I've never seen it but I've heard people talk about it for decades. Same with wolverine being a wolverine.

[@serenajones3164]

@@DSan-kl2yc In her original bio, Jessica Drew is effectively the adopted daughter of the High Evolutionary, making her extended family to the Scarlett Witch, Quicksilver, and Magneto.

[@wildominion7171]

Here for SASHA.. and her hair

[@freddiebeat]

Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman is one of my favorite characters. For me, my affinity to the character started with the animated series. It was a great '80s cartoon series. Something about her transformation from civilian look to superhero look on the cartoon being similar to Wonder Woman's in the 1970s live action show also made her memorable.

[@princeveggetta]

I've like her since she came out, people can't write her, got a great powerset

[@RealityCheckTV]

The original Spider-woman: "A character called "Spider-Woman" (Valerie the Librarian) appears in the recurring live-action skit "Spidey Super Stories" on the 1970s PBS children's television series The Electric Company. She also appears as Spider-Woman in the spin-off comic book series Spidey Super Stories #11 (August 1975). She has no superpowers."

[@bruced6543]

"It's a spider thing" best line ever

[@israelvaldez26]

I loved this video and I miss poor Cypher.

[@trublgrl]

It seem to me they were setting up yet ANOTHER "blast from the past" story line where Jerry, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Jessica had some past that neither of then fully remembered. There are like three instances in your synopsis where they are like "Why do I have these feelings?" I think Jerry and Jessi did the bad touch in a parked car on one crazy summer night. But they were high as hell.

[@alexwimberly1268]

Kinda interesting how they didn't just keep going with the Supernatural elements to separate her from Spiderman and his super science adventures. Y'know put her on the other end of the comic genre spectrum

[@toonsis]

Even when Spider-Woman was tied-up, her hair was always freeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@razrramonel4077]

I read Spider-Woman From Issue 39- Issue 50 and found it very entertaining, & very informative.

[@quinmarkus-pawliuk389]

I love your new hair.

[@s.nifrum4580]

It would be interesting if she had memories from both Jessica drew and from the spider or spiders that were probably killed to make that spider serum Maybe the spiders could create a collective consciousness that has some form of influence over her because comic science

[@carltondean3005]

Please do a video about Medusa, the Inhuman, and her hair!

[@Alice-me2qk]

"2015 was a year." Yes, and also 9 years ago, at the time of commenting. 2015 feels like 5 years ago.

[@kevink3053]

Spider-woman is my favorite marvel hero

[@philpatterson7085]

All I can say that must have been the most potent batch of black hair dye that has ever existed. Black #1. Jessica, are your roots a showin?

[@michaellangwaller]

The musical Hair starring Jessica Drew and Sasha. I haven't had a chance to look into many Spider-Woman issues, most of my exposure was from her show and guest appearances in other comics, but I have always loved her hair and the fact that she was not-Spider-Man, her power set is just so wonderfully different.

[@kiranbola7103]

i dont know why but when she were talking about jerry getting shot and jessica jumping in i kpet thinking she meant the security guard, whole different story there

[@Skipray_Blastboat]

Her Dad wasnt just killed by any Werewolf but Werewolf By Night, Jack Russell!

[@210SAi]

Never heard or seen a Werewolf by day

[@Dalenthas]

I'm a big fan of Jessica Drew. I came at her from a weird angle; my first real introduction to her was as Carol Danvers's superhero friend.

[@VerveQuest-zc4ri]

Still better done then Brando's Island of Dr. Moreau

[@Outshined93]

who are all those random women at 10:17 ? 😜 Love your content!

[@gracetrainor4712]

That last hairstyle with the bangs though, I had to pause the video because I did not recognize you right away.