SpiderDan 1: Rise of the Six

by Joshua Summers-Fowl III

When Dan Cahill gets bitten by a radioactive spider, he gains the powers of the web-crawling superhero we all know and love, but when a hero rises, so will a villain. Or in Dan's case, six.

1. Swinging on a Saturday

15th March – Saturday

0600 hours

Most guys my age would, at 6 in the morning, be sleeping in, or playing stuff like Clash of Clans or League of Legends (at least, the guys in my class do), or possibly raiding the fridge. Others would probably be out running laps around the Washington Monument (like Cap), or maybe waking up totally hung-over after last night's party.

I, on the other hand, spend my Saturday mornings swinging through the downtown area of Manhattan, on the lookout for lawbreakers, criminals and evildoers of any kind.

Yep. Swinging.

Well, it's technically "web-swinging".

You see, I'm not like other guys my age, and I don't mean that in the angsty-introverted-misunderstood teenager way. I mean it in the literal, I'm-a-frickin'-superhero way. I also happen to be one of the coolest superheroes in the history of superhero-kind.

I'm Spiderman.