Lastest celebrity breakup: Spiderman and Mary Jane

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Attention ladies: Spider-Man's single
Web-spewing super hero and his wife Mary Jane break up in comic’s latest plot line
By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 12:09 pm

A copy of the Spiderman comic depicting the super hero's split with his wife, Mary Jane.

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Nobody could have seen this celebrity breakup coming: After more than 20 years of marriage, Spider-Man and Mary Jane are kaput.

Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, said it was time to shake things up in the life of Peter Parker, the nerdy New Yorker who upon being bitten by a radioactive spider attained the ability to transform himself into a web-spinning world savior. And it was easier to do that, he said, if Parker wasn’t married.

This week’s plot twist left many comic-book fans climbing the walls.

“When we first did it, the reaction was, ’How could you do this? This is a terrible thing to do,” said Quesada, who invented the story line that turned Spider-Man into Single-Man.

“But with the first issue of ’Brand New Day’ (this week’s comic book in which Spider-Man returns to single life), our letters very quickly changed to people saying,

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