10 Weirdest Spider-Man Costumes

2. Spider-Man 1602

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Marvel Comics

Neil Gaiman's 1602 series raised a lot of interesting questions, but perhaps none were more thought-provoking than this: what's less dignified, a Shakespearean neck ruffle or a bag on your head?

This befrocked version of the classic hero battled all sorts of seventeenth-century baddies -- despite the complete lack of skyscrapers, which you'd think would hamper his web-slinging a tad -- but the mishmash of Elizabethan clothes and standard Spidey trappings just made him look like a doorman at a fetish club.

Gaiman's reimagined world was full of ambitious ideas, but Shakespidey was one of the biggest misses among some entertaining hits.

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