Spider-Man's 10 Best Costumes Of All Time

3. Spider-Ben

Once the Marvel front office made the shocking decision to replace Peter Parker with his clone, Ben Reilly, aka the Scarlet Spider, in the mid-1990s, it was only a matter of time before Spidey'€™s costume changed too. Fortunately for comic book fashionistas everywhere, the Scarlet Spider duds turned out to be one the more successful changes put forward during the €œClone Saga.€

Created by Mark Bagley with additional art by Dan Jurgens, the suit debuted in Sensational Spider-Man #0. The new Spider-Ben costume updates the classic red and blue concept by distributing the colors differently (including red and blue gloves) and by placing a very large black spider on Spidey's front.

After Spider-Ben is eventually killed, the costume is adapted for the cult favorite Spider-Girl series, and is also viewed by some as a visual inspiration for Spidey's costume choice in Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man film.

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Mark is a professional writer living in Brooklyn and is the founder of the Chasing Amazing Blog, which documents his quest to collect every issue of Amazing Spider-Man, and the Superior Spider-Talk podcast. He also pens the "Gimmick or Good?" column at Comics Should Be Good blog.