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Matthew Surridge
I can distinctly remember, when I was, oh, about 5 or 6 — that’d put it about 1980, or just before — looking at a piece of Spider-Man merchandise, and I want to say it was a puffy sticker, that called him “the Spider-Man.” And I couldn’t figure out at the time why it struck me as so wrong, since it was literally just “the Amazing Spider-Man” with the “Amazing” taken out. It was the same logo as the book used, in fact, just without the adjective.