I'm a freelance writer with the goal of working at Marvel one day. I'm the webmaster of two Ghostbusters websites (NYGB Tourguide & Comicguide), writer about comics for an E-Zine about books called Estella's Revenge, and conduct staff interviews for small publisher Guild Works Productions. I am a proud member and NY coordinator of the Comicbook Artists Guild. In my spare time I work on various other projects just to keep in practice for the days I can do them professionally, which can range anywhere from comics to movies.

I saw a request on the site for a reviewer for the [awful] MC2 limited series, "Last Hero Standing," and was anxious to rip it a new one, so I e-mailed Jon. He welcomed me to the staff. I wrote up the reviews, and have been eager to write new ones ever since.

I'd been an avid reader of spiderfan for quite a while before I became a staff member. I hadn't the gumption or the confidence to apply to be a staff member until I'd already become an established reviewer for ComiXtreme.com, and finally wanted to join the spiderfan family. I subbed on Ultimate Spider-Man for a while, and started reviewing Amazing Spider-Man at around the same time. I hope someday to find the time to contribute more to back-issue reviews, which was a draw when applying in the first place.

Alias Spidermad. Only recently (i.e 1996) started reading comics and Spidey after seeing the TV series and finding himself unable to function in this world without his Spidey fix after it finished.

He has a degree in Education, but works at a church part-time and for a small computer business part-time. He's been married for 2 years and all that at the age of 22! His wife loves him so much, she made the Spidey suit he's wearing in the photo.

I'm the editor for the page. I have about 90% of Spider-Man's appearances, and have picked up a lot of general info, although you must remember that New Zealand is a long way from the heart of the Marvel Universe. I do travel quite a bit, so I can sometimes seem a little unresponsive - but I always eventually respond to every e-mail I receive!

Introduced to Spider-Man via the magical early eighties cartoons at the age of 2, and from that day have been a huge fan. In 1990 I began to collect MCP and and the adjectiveless Spidey book. Today my comic collection is geared towards attaining all core apps from 1988-present. By 2004 and the arrival of the MK Spider-Man series, I mailed Jon to enquire about profiles detailing new cast members in the MK comic. I was told I could write them, and since then have adopted the role of profile writer dealing with most of the new characters that appear in the core books. In my free time I am putting together a body of illustrations to host online and will be seeking to attain work through my art once this is done. I am also big on videogames and obnoxious music (not Avril Lavigne).

Scott is a massage therapist and (self-published) novelist who has been a Spider fan from the very beginnings. Why four year-old Scott saw fit to number his comic books he'll never know, but Spidey comics were among the first he owned. Those first four Spidey comics were Amazing Spider-Man 173, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #'s 14 & 20 and Spidey Super Stories 38.

I am married with two lovely twin girls (age three). I am a graduate of Eastern Illinois University. I have been a band director for 8 years and my current band has 110 students. I have one room in my house that is filled with comic stuff, with one wall dedicated to Spidey.

Eric Engelhard is the secret alter-ego of Easy Reader, street-wise pimp daddy of the Electric Company. Eric is played on television by Morgan Freeman.

Eric has a fascination with really bad comics from the 1970s, despite only being alive for 2 of those years. When not ranting about Hypno-Hustler, Eric manages the uber-cool G-Mart comics (www.g-mart.com), a great on-line comic store.

I've been at reviewer at spiderfan.org for about four years now, ever since Peter Parker: Spider-Man #14. I reviewed every issue of PP:SM after that, and after it was canceled I moved on to Spectacular.

I was officially added to the staff in the October 2nd 2001, after sending Jon an email so big that he gave up on reading it and just welcomed me in. I started by doing reviews of backissues, but soon enough my attention turned toward character profiles. I study, and I'm frequently swamped with work, to the point where I no longer find the time to submit anything to the site. I just stick around and keep cashing in my paycheck, hoping the boss doesn't notice.

Mike's an enviromental engineer, cartoonist, amateur film maker, action-figure customizer, freelance writer for the Official Handbooks of the Marvel Universe, and all around Spiderphile. Growing up in Queens, New York City, 15 minutes from Peter's hometown of Forest Hills, Mike began his association with the webbed one by age 5. He easily related to Spidey in many ways. Was is that microscope he used to play with as a kid? Was it the love of science and research? Maybe he just liked the Electric Company?

The very first comic I bought was back in the magical spring of my twelfth year of life. I was in the 6th grade and I was friends with a kid named Aaron who had a small collection of comics, most of which were Spider-Man. We would spend hour upon hour reading them and that was it, I was hooked. The first one I bought for myself was Spider-Man Volume 1 #8, the first issue of Todd McFarlane's Perceptions storyline, guest starring Wolverine. I couldn't believe that these comics were so mature, mature for my 12 year old intellect that is. I then quickly got the first 7 issues of that series and the rest is history. I have pretty much been collecting since then.

I'm the young punk of the Spiderfan.org staff, having only been a reviewer since July of 2004. My first review was of Venom #14 (a REAL classic). Since Venom was recently cancelled (a mercy killing), I hopped on for the new Marvel Team-Up, since the original volume of MTU is my favourite cancelled series of all-time. I remain furiously loyal to Marvel, rarely venturing to buy a story arc or two outside the company.

I've been a fan of Spider-Man since I was four. My first Spider-Man comic was a reprint of the first half of {{Amazing Spider-Man #103}}.

I'd get the occasional issue, but it wasn't until 1989 that I started getting serious about it. Thus began the "collecting with a vengeance" period that lasted up to ... well it's still going, actually. It's just spilled into other titles.

I've been a Spidey fan since the mid-late 1980s. I started buying the comics in early 1995 with Amazing Spider-Man #397. I've since caught up with my Spidey history through Marvel's Essential titles and I even own some super old issues from Amazing Spider-Man. Writing about the wall-crawler is just about as fun as reading about him.

Peter got sucked into Spidey comics at the age of 14. He's now a Team Manager who has made it his life's goal to collect all American and Dutch Spider-Man comics - a task which is nearly finished. You can see the results on his own web-site, The Spider-Man Cover Archive.

I haven't actually been reading Spidey (or comics) that long but I like to think I've caught up pretty quickly. I started reveiwing for this site with Marvel Age: Spider-Man then just hung around acting like I was busy.

Alias BUHBUHRAYSPIDEY or BOOKER C. Craig started reading comics in 1992. It all started with a couple of Marvel universe trading cards featuring Spidey and has spiraled out of control since. He has a HND (a lazy/poor mans degree) in Computing and works full time as an IT Engineer.

A librarian by profession, I spend most of my free time writing - be it stories, games or the first chapters of numerous novels, I'm happiest behind the keyboard. Combine this with an abiding love of Spider-Man comics, and I jumped at the chance to write for Spiderfan. I didn't even care what I reviewed, which was just as well as I was saddled with Araña before moving onto Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man. I am currently one third of the team that reviews the thrice-monthly {{Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1)}}.

I am a 22 year old Spider-Man fan. Currently I am a graduate student at Rutgers University majoring in American history. My earliest memories of Spider-Man come from religiously watching the wonderful Animated Series that aired on Fox in the early 1990s. It took me awhile to get into comic books. The 1990s was generally a bad time to be a fan of superhero comic books. I am forever grateful that Ultimate Spider-Man came out in 2000. For me, it was a breath of fresh air and a return to the Spider-Man character which I loved. I am having a blast reviewing the title that got me back into superheroes.

I've been a long-time reader of the site, since 1996 at least, but didn't take the plunge to become a staff member until mid-2006. At that time I made a career change from academics to public service. I'm glad I did, but it must be said that government work does not satisfy one's creative urges the way that academia can. As a result, full of pent-up energy, I volunteered for the site and the rest is history.

Amazing Spider-Man #346 was the first comic I bought. After seeing Larsen's Venom I was hooked. Spider-Man was, and still is, my favorite comic character despite the fact that my collection would grow beyond him. I stopped for about six years because Image had ruined the idea of a story-driven comic, but started again when the first Spider-Man movie came out. This time Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man pulled me back and I've been collecting ever since.

I could try to be funny here, I could try to be serious, but I'll still feel like I'm selling myself to you. In addition to my work here at Spider-Fan, I also a web comic and the surprisingly popular Amazing Spider-Blog, concerning the daily Spider-Man comic strip.

My name is Dave Sippel and I'm a Spider-holic. I've been a Spider-holic ever since buying Spectacular Spider-Man 220, when MJ announced she was pregnant. Yup, I came on board right in the middle of the Clone Saga and I still stayed. Cause even when Spidey does something that makes me scratch my head and go "Huh?," I'm still fascinated.

Judging on age alone, Al is the most senior of us all. By day, Al is a mild-mannered librarian, but this is only a cover for his secret identity as an accomplished playwright.

Al is our resident historian, responsible for the most detailed of our "Looking Back" series of historical reviews. Al is also an expert on early Silver Age Marvel.

Back in 1962 Robert J. ("Bob") Sodaro was bitten by a radioactive comicbook, and has been hooked ever since. With a nearly complete collection, he is clearly a hardcore Spidey fan. Bob has actually worked as a writer for many comic book fan mags, plus, he is the author of a book on Fast Food collectables (Kiddie Meal Collectables), as well as on on advertising trivia (Trivia Mania: Commercials and Ads).

Bob also wrote the (admittedly short-lived) comic-book Agent Unknown, which was published by Renegade Press in the late '70s. He is currently not only the features editor for {{Comics Values Annual}}, but he is a the Communications Director for Guild Works Productions, as well as a regular contributor to the company's line of comics (Psychosis! and CAG), and he has stories appear in Psychosis! #s1, & 2; and GWP has committed to bring back Agent Unknown, in future issues of CAG.

Bryan is a former farmer, short-order cook, insurance salesman, and English teacher in Japan, and a long-time veteran of the spiderfan.org staff, having joined in 1995. He is currently doing graduate studies in English literature in British Columbia. His research interests include comic books, and he has presented his research on Spider-Man at academic conferences.