Spider-Girl #32

Name: Spider-Girl #32
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

May 2001 · Marvel · 2.25 USD; 3.50 CAD

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“The Steel Spider!”

★ 1st appearance — Gerry Drew

About this Issue

Spider-Girl #32 is one of the denser debut issues in the MC2 imprint's history, packing three meaningful first appearances into a single 22-page story. The MC2 version of Steel Spider — an Ollie Osnick who never quit heroics and became a respected Avenger — makes his debut here, offering the alternate-timeline counterpart to a character who met a grimmer fate in the mainstream Marvel Universe during the Civil War era. More consequentially for ongoing MC2 continuity, this issue also marks the first appearance of Gerald 'Gerry' Drew, the terminally ill son of Jessica Drew who takes up the Spider-Man name — a character whose short, poignant arc would drive major plot threads through the mid-30s of the series. The story also fleshed out the origin background of American Dream (Shannon Carter), deepening the MC2's generational-legacy theme by connecting her backstory to the Carter family lineage and to Captain America's legacy in a future where Steve Rogers is gone.

writer Tom DeFalco · writer, artist Ron Frenz · inker Al Williamson · colorist Christie Scheele · letterer John Workman · cover Patrick Olliffe, Al Williamson

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History

By issue #32, the Spider-Girl series was well past its initial cancellation scare and had settled into the reliable creative partnership of writer Tom DeFalco and a rotating but stable art team; this issue's interior pencils are credited to Ron Frenz, with inks by Al Williamson and colors by Christie Scheele, while Pat Olliffe handled the cover. The title had launched in 1998 under the MC2 imprint as a planned 12-issue series that fan response converted into an ongoing, and by 2001 DeFalco was using it as the primary vehicle for expanding the MC2 universe — introducing new legacy characters like Gerry Drew that would reverberate across subsequent story arcs. The issue was released March 21, 2001, under Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada.

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First appearance of the MC2 universe (Earth-982) Steel Spider — Oliver 'Ollie' Osnick — who in this timeline never retired from heroics and rose to become a member of the Avengers before a personal crisis brings him to his lowest point.
First appearance of Gerald 'Gerry' Drew as Spider-Man: the teenage son of Jessica Drew (the original Spider-Woman), born with a fatal blood disease and imbued with spider-powers through the same experimental process that once transformed his mother.
First appearance of the Earth-982 version of Sharon Carter, establishing the backstory of American Dream's family lineage within the MC2 universe.
The issue also provides the first in-depth glimpse of American Dream's (Shannon Carter's) origin — her parents' death in a car accident, her adoption by Peggy Carter, and her inspiration by Sharon's diaries — backstory later expanded in the 2008 American Dream miniseries by DeFalco, Todd Nauck, and Scott Koblish.
Written by Tom DeFalco; penciled by Ron Frenz; inked by Al Williamson; colored by Christie Scheele; cover by Pat Olliffe and Al Williamson. Released March 21, 2001 (cover date May 2001), under EIC Joe Quesada.
The story's title is 'The Steel Spider'; the antagonists are the Soldiers of the Serpent, a hate-group that Spider-Girl, American Dream, and Steel Spider unite to defeat — a team-up that reinvigorates Ollie Osnick's faith in heroism.
Gerry Drew's debut here sets up a multi-issue subplot: his accelerated illness, an uneasy rivalry with May Parker over who should carry the Spider-Man name, and Peter Parker's eventual intervention to convince Gerry to seek treatment from Reed Richards.
Spider-Girl #32 was later collected in Spider-Girl: The Complete Collection Vol. 2 (Marvel, March 5, 2019), a trade paperback that reprints issues #16–32 of the original series.