This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.

My top two prospects: the supernerdy redhead Kieran, because he looked like the male version of the sexy librarian and might be a vivacious animal under that maroon cardigan; […]

When DC Comics tweaked Marvel in the 1960s, they almost always did so through Spider-Man: Jerry Lewis became the Fearless Tarantula in an issue of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, while a teenage DC hero in the Legion of Superheroes serials compared himself, quote favorably, to the webbed wallcrawler.

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