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<blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 6645375" data-attributes="member: 5038">Well, you and your friends would be wrong <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;&nbsp; Find the very first set of handbooks before those later reprinted in trade paperback format.&nbsp; A few issues into the series numerous erratum begin that toned down the strength levels of characters.&nbsp; The changes were fiat from the editor in chief to make things more &quot;believable&quot; rather than comic book accuracy. &nbsp;Shooter fiat was fairly common at the time and, much of what is listed about powers was not from the comics, but from Shooter and Gruenwald. Spiderman's web-crawling being listed as being electo-static is a perfect example. According to John Byrne, Jim Shooter (editor and chief at the time) ordered Gruenwald to use electro-static in the handbooks to explain Spider-man's climbing, because Shooter mistakingly believed that spiders climbed by sticky&nbsp; pads on their feet like most insects and considered it to be &quot;icky&quot;.&nbsp; Apparently, the &quot;correct&quot; thinking at the time was that spiders had small hairs that could hook into surface imperfections (according to Byrne).&nbsp; (Note: Twenty or so years later, scientists would find out that most spiders had even smaller hairs on those hairs which allowed them to climb using van der Waals force&nbsp; (<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/iop-smb041504.php" target="_blank">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/iop-smb041504.php</a>). A year or two after that scientists discovered that tarantulas actually do produce silk pads from their feet to support their climbing on sheer surfaces when those hairs are not enough (<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060927201410.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060927201410.htm</a>) )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg K, post: 6645375, member: 5038"] Well, you and your friends would be wrong :) Find the very first set of handbooks before those later reprinted in trade paperback format. A few issues into the series numerous erratum begin that toned down the strength levels of characters. The changes were fiat from the editor in chief to make things more "believable" rather than comic book accuracy. Shooter fiat was fairly common at the time and, much of what is listed about powers was not from the comics, but from Shooter and Gruenwald. Spiderman's web-crawling being listed as being electo-static is a perfect example. According to John Byrne, Jim Shooter (editor and chief at the time) ordered Gruenwald to use electro-static in the handbooks to explain Spider-man's climbing, because Shooter mistakingly believed that spiders climbed by sticky pads on their feet like most insects and considered it to be "icky". Apparently, the "correct" thinking at the time was that spiders had small hairs that could hook into surface imperfections (according to Byrne). (Note: Twenty or so years later, scientists would find out that most spiders had even smaller hairs on those hairs which allowed them to climb using van der Waals force ([url]http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/iop-smb041504.php[/url]). A year or two after that scientists discovered that tarantulas actually do produce silk pads from their feet to support their climbing on sheer surfaces when those hairs are not enough ([url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060927201410.htm[/url]) ) [/QUOTE]

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