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Spider-Girls
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Spider-Girl.
Spider-Girl is the code name of several superheroines in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The most prominent version and first to receive an ongoing series is Mayday Parker from the MC2 universe, the second version is Anya Corazon, the third version is Gwen Warren, and the fourth version is Maka Akana, the latter three from the Earth-616 universe. Several alternate reality incarnations of the character have additionally received notoriety, including the Ultimate Spider-Girl, Ashley Barton, Betty Brant, Felicity Hardy, April, Penelope and Petra Parker, Charlotte Morales, and Jessica Campbell; the name is also used by the Spider-Man advocacy group "The Spider-Girls". Publication historyThe first Spider-Girl, Mayday Parker, debuted in a one-shot story in the ongoing series What If. Following positive fan response to the concept, Spider-Girl and two other series (A-Next and J2) set in the same alternate future universe were launched under the MC2 imprint with The Amazing Spider-Girl and The Spectacular Spider-Girl. On November 8, 2008, Marvel EIC Joe Quesada confirmed that Spider-Girl would become a feature in the monthly anthology magazine Amazing Spider-Man Family. The series