Al sinds de jaren zeventig lees ik Marvel comics, waarbij Spider-Man altijd mijn favoriet is geweest. Maar deze held heeft niet alleen een hoop mooie momenten gekend maar ook een aantal beschamende. Daarom is er nu deze top vijf gemaakt, waar ook de Spider-Mobile op staat. Dan denk ik welke drugs werden er toen gebruikt om dat te verzinnen.

5. The Spider-Mobile

Batman gets away with having so many vehicles because he doesn't have any powers, and because he has an entire internet full of disciples ready to dismantle any argument against him. Yet Spider-Man has incredible mobility built-in -- the only reason he would need a car is if he wanted something to hang his truck nuts on. But Marvel had several reasons, and they rhymed with "dash," "honey" and, uh, " mossover cherchandise." So smack dab in the middle of a classic 1970s run (we're talking the issue right after the first appearance of The Punisher), the Spider-Mobile rolled onto the scene after Peter finally succumbed to the allure of rent money in the form of celebrity endorsement. He and the Human Torch built it together with a lot of elbow grease and regular high-fives, and by the time it was finished the red and blue buggy was equipped with web shooters, an ejector seat and a camouflage mode -- it could do everything a spider could, up to and including dangling right in front of your face until you almost walk into it and then freak out and stub your toe on the bedpost.

Though the Spider-Mobile came and went in one issue, it turned back up a few times over the years, presumably whenever a warehouse unearthed another cache of unsold toy cars. The buggy got so uppity that it even gained a mind of its own and tried to kill its former master.