Around the turn of 1966, while walking through Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich decided to write a “Spider-Man” song, starting with the line “Nobody loves you when you crawl along the wall” and building from there. The song, titled “Here Comes the Spider-Man!,” preceded by some months the similarly titled (but otherwise totally different) theme song of the soon-forthcoming first “Spider-Man” TV cartoons in 1967. A few weeks later, it was recorded, with their friend, Topps executive Len Brown, as producer, with Roy as vocalist and Gary on drums, plus a couple of studio guitarists, with two young women singing backup. With Stan Lee’s informal blessing, Roy and Gary had one unproductive meeting about it with an executive of Roulette Records, but it was then retired, as they had no formal permission from Marvel to do anything with it. It was first played in public as the “Roy Thomas Day” festival in Jackson, Missouri, in February 2019. Its first national airing was over the “Steve… and Cimino Says Boom!” Show only on the POPXP! YouTube Channel on June 24, 2022. Then it went back in the attic trunk.
– Roy Thomas
Images used and the video clips are just some Spider-Man elements we put together for some cool visuals to go a long with the song and have no ties to this song.
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