In the fall of 1974, the prestigious Children’s Television Workshop teamed up with Marvel Comics to publish the Electric Company Spidey Super Stories comic books. The simple, fun, diverse, and relatively nonviolent stories were designed to help 6- to 10-year-olds learn to read, and they have aged surprisingly well. Panel moderator Britton Payne (Nickelodeon), artist and editor John Jennings (MEGASCOPE, Marvel Super Stories), and speech and language therapist Hannah Bogen Novak discuss the origin of the venture, the structure of the stories, the “far-out” concepts (including the first black Spider-Woman, Spider-Man vs. Jaws, and the infamous Thanos-Copter), and the modern developmental value of the 57-issue run and its impact on modern comics for kids.
Friday March 28, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
Room 210
