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Spider-Woman, the Jessica Drew version, is the focus of this video.
To give you an idea of what she looks like and the sort of adventures that she gets involved in, a chronological series of Comic Book Covers featuring her, are presented.
The presentation starts with her very first appearance on Marvel Spotlight No. 32, cover-dated February 1977; followed by her first series, which ran from 1978 to 1983; and then skips forward to her newest series, which ran from 2020 to 2022.
She is a Marvel Comics female superhero (superheroine) and was created because then-publisher, Stan Lee, wanted to make sure that Marvel claimed the name before anyone else.
Marvel Comics' then-publisher Stan Lee said in 1978, shortly after Spider-Woman's debut in Marvel Spotlight No. 32 (cover-dated February 1977) (the first comic book cover in this video) and the start of the character's 50-issue self-titled series (1978 to 1983), the character originated because,
I suddenly realized that some other company may quickly put out a book like that and claim they have the right to use the name, and I thought we'd better do it real fast to copyright the name. So we just batted one quickly, and that's exactly what happened. I wanted to protect the name, because it's the type of thing [where] someone else might say, "Hey, why don't we put out a Spider-Woman; they can't stop us." ... You know, years ago we brought out Wonder Man, and [DC Comics] sued us because they had Wonder Woman, and ... I said okay, I'll discontinue Wonder Man. And all of a sudden they've got Power Girl [after Marvel had introduced Power Man]. Oh, boy. How unfair.
Jessica Drew was born in 1924 and moved with her parents to a small Balkan nation.
When she was seven years old, she contracted uranium poisoning from her father’s work and was saved through a spider-derived serum plus years of hibernation in a genetic accelerator.
She spent years in hibernation and decades in stasis receiving subliminal education.
When she was finally awakened she was cured, and had only aged to her early teens, plus she now possessed superhuman powers.
She was later tricked in to helping the evil organization HYDRA, but she learned the truth from S.H.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury and abandoned HYDRA.
She adopted the name Spider-Woman and embarked on an on-going journey of self-discovery and heroism.