Spider Queen
Her Collected Tales
Two decades before Spider-Man was conceived, another masked hero dressed in red & blue
was shooting webs from his her wrists. The Spider Queen was introduced in
1941 as a backup feature for the second issue of The Eagle. She would go on to appear in
issues three and four before the title was canceled. In 1962, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
would use her as the inspiration for Spider-Man: updating her costume, changing her
web-shooting bracelets into “wrist-shooters”, and of course turning her into a man.
The Spider Queen was credited to Elsa Lesau in her first appearance and to Elsa Lisau in
her later appearances. The author is otherwise unknown.
Spider Queen: Her Collected Tales republishes her original appearances together for the
first time.
Spider Queen: Her Collected Tales was edited by Will Dick, a comic book collector in
Toronto. If you have any feedback about the book, additional information about The
Spider Queen or its author, original copies of The Spider Queen’s appearances that you’d
like to sell (or brag about), or anything else to share, please email him.
