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Spider-Woman
Jessica Drew, Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin and Charlotte Witter, along with Madame Web. Cover to Spider-Woman (v3) #1; art by Bart Sears.
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Marvel Spotlight #32 (1977)
Created by	Archie Goodwin Sal Buscema Jim Mooney
Characters	Jessica Drew Julia Carpenter Mattie Franklin Charlotte Witter

Spider-Woman is the codename of several fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe. They are based on the character Spider-Man. An earlier "Spider-Woman" was published by Harry "A" Chesler Comics in 1941; a non-superpowered crime-fighter named Helen Goddard, she made her first and only appearance in the Golden Age comic book Major Victory #1. Another Spiderwoman was in Spidey Super Stories #11 (Story 3), though that is not official canon.

1 Spider-Women
2 Alternate continuity
3 See also
- 3.1 More female Marvel characters with spider powers/affiliations
4 External links

Spider-Women

Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), the original and current Spider-Woman. She starred in her own animated TV series in 1979.
Julia Carpenter, a former Avengers member, now called Arachne and a member of Omega Flight.
Spider-Woman (Mattie Franklin), who briefly impersonated Spider-Man before receiving her own short-lived comic series was active during the 2007 Loners miniseries.
Spider-Woman (Charlotte Witter), the only villain to use the name.

Alternate continuity

A Spider-Woman animated series was based on the Jessica Drew version.
Spider-Woman (Mary Jane Watson), ninja of the Spider-clan, is an alternate version of the character in the Marvel Mangaverse reality.
Another version of Mary Jane as Spider-Woman can be found in the Exiles series. (See Sunfire).
In MC2 continuity, Jessica Drew has never regained her powers and thus did not return to being Spider-Woman.
In the comic book Ultimate Spider-Man, an Ultimate Spider-Woman debuted in issue #98, but was not given the name "Spider-Woman" until issue #102. Though her creators named her Jessica Drew, she is a female clone of Peter Parker, and retains all of his memories up until the end of the Carnage storyline.