10 Insane Alternate Versions Of Spider-Man You Won't Believe Exist

10. Ghost Spider

Ghost Spider Marvel
Marvel Comics

Marvel have had an awful lot of fun with the Ghost Rider identity over the years, bonding the Spirit of Vengeance to a whole manner of different heroes and villains at varying points in continuity.

The most recent wearer of the mantle has been Frank Castle - the cosmic Ghost Rider - but a version of Peter Parker has also done the same at one point in time. Called Ghost Spider (which, to his credit, does actually rhyme with rider), this particular incarnation of the wall-crawler boasts a flaming skull, a white costume, and a creepy, bone-like spider-symbol on his chest.

Yes, it all looks rather cool, but potentially cooler is the fact that the Sorcerer Supreme of this universe was none other than Bruce Banner. Ghost Spider's origin actually involves the mystic Banner plucking Peter's soul straight from Hell and setting him on a new path as the Spirit of Vengeance, and it's just as wonderful as you think it is.

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