On a day when most people are wary of what they see and hear, Hasbro decided to give us a reveal of a new figure now up for preorder. Web-man is an interesting release as I don’t think anyone was really looking for it or had any idea of this characters existence. I’m a pretty big Marvel Comics fan and I don’t recall ever seeing this alternate Spider-Man before. I had to Google it to find the history behind it.

When Spider-Man entered a room through a window, he found a mirror and started looking at his reflection, not knowing that it was actually a one-way mirror and in the other side was Doctor Doom. Doom took this chance and used his Twin Machine to create a copy of Spider-Man, but with the opposite traits. Doom ordered Web-Man to go and capture Spider-Man. Spider-Man confronted Web-Man, but had the upper hand as since Web-Man was the opposite of Spider-Man, who is a genius, Web-Man was quite stupid. He returned to Doctor Doom emptyhanded, but then Doom decided to create another duplicate of Spider-Man. However, Spider-Man arrived and destroyed the Twin Machine and arrested Doctor Doom, leaving the outcome of the duplicates unknown.

Now that we know a little about the history behind it, let’s take a look at the figure.

The design is basically the exact opposite of what Spider-Man’s color scheme is. Where there was red, there is blue. Where there was blue, there is red.

The figure uses the same body mold as the new Spider-Man from the initial retro Spidey wave. I missed that figure, so I’ll definitely be getting this one.

Web-man is up for preorder now on Entertainment Earth, HasbroPulse, Dorksidetoys, BigBadToyStore and anywhere else you get your Legends.

As a bonus, Hasbro is doing a second run of the 80th Anniversary Retro Deadpool figure. It goes for quite a bit on the secondary market, so if you want it and don’t want to pay exorbitant prices, now’s your chance.

This is also up for preorder now. Both figures will release this fall.