During the last comedy show Saturday night Livewhich has been broadcast live every Saturday night from New York for over 46 years, there was a huge presence from Marvel.
For starters, it included an appearance by the star who plays Ant Man at the MCU, actor Paul Rudd, plus a cameo from the Infinity Gauntlet.
However, the moment that surely left more than one fan of Marvel comics frozen occurred during a sketch in which a comic spider-man just destroyed.
Valuable Spider-Man Comic Smashed on Saturday Night Live
The truth is that the scene is very American and would leave anyone who saw it a little out of the game. Especially the youngest.
In it, reference is made to slime from Nickelodeon from the 1980s. This slime is a pretty gross-looking, green goo that caught on and was used a lot on kids’ network TV.
Although it looks like radioactive mucus, the concoction was made from vanilla grits, oatmeal, applesauce, and green food coloring. The thing is, during the sketch focused on that theme, the character played by comedian John Mulaney has a comic spider-man between the hands when it is smeared by a lot of that slime green.
And the cover of the comic reveals that it is not just any comic, since Its the The Amazing Spider-Man number 194 (from 1979 to match the times of the sketch). The important thing is that this copy supposes the first appearance of the Black Cat.
This is kind of cat woman Marvel, who will be a recurring and relevant character in the adventures of spider-mansince it will become, over time, one of his love affairs.
The point is that, being the origin of such a crucial character, the comic in question can easily reach about 2000 dollars price on the collectors market.
Did they really destroy the comic on SNL just for the laughs?
The truth is that Marvel’s amateur sleuths set out to find out if they had actually spent $2,000 to acquire a copy of such an important comic book and trash it with green slime.
The answer, according to those who have analyzed the images in detail, is that it seems not to be so.
Most likely, according to the most experienced in this, is that it was another comic, but wrapped in a cover of the famous number 194 from spider-man.
This one, moreover, is perfectly new, which would indicate that, most likely, the image had been printed and, with it, it would have been made the cover for another less valuable comic in reality.
As you can see, Marvel fans don’t miss one and they pay attention to everything.
