New Spider-Man movie photos

[Lew Stringer]

The costume design for Spider-Man has always been a classic. Unique and distinctive. It worked fine on screen too.

Well, the new Spider-Man movie tweaks it somewhat and, in my opinion, makes overly-fussy changes to it. Maybe it'll look better on screen, rather than in these set photos, but the costume just looks over designed to me now.

Anyway, see what you think:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/artic ... es-surface

[stevezodiac]

Having read Spider-man for 40 years it has just occurred to me what a strange choice red and blue was for the costume colour. How many red and blue spiders are there? Yellow and black would have been my preference.

[Digifiend]

It would look better if the red stripe on the waist actually joined up to the red part of the torso, like it does in the classic design. I'm not sure about the eyes either.


As for yellow and black... the stealth suit in the Big Time arc is very close.

[Lew Stringer]

Having read Spider-man for 40 years it has just occurred to me what a strange choice red and blue was for the costume colour. How many red and blue spiders are there? Yellow and black would have been my preference.

Red is often a child's favourite colour so it's a good choice for a comic character. Spidey's costume is supposed to be red and black, and was coloured like that in the early issues. Then to show more muscle definition the black was changed to a purplish dark blue using solid blue and a magenta percentage, and then later, to make it simpler for the crude colouring system at the time, to a solid blue. But it's only "blue" in the same way that Superman's hair is.

Unfortunately once other media got involved (cartoons, toys, movies etc) they took it literally and red and blue became perceived as the actual colours. Some issues in more recent years have shown it to be red and black again. It depends on the artist a lot of the time.

(Anyway, I think Steve Ditko wanted orange and green for the colour scheme but Stan overruled him.)