He also pitched NICHOLAS HAMMOND Meets CHRISTOPHER REEVE…
Spider-Man/Superman #1 is coming April 15, the last of the current wave of Super/Spider crossovers, including new one-shots and Facsimile Editions.
You can find the whole rundown over here but the story in the issue that intrigues me the most is Golden Age Superman’s team-up with Spider-Man Noir, by Dan Slott and artist Marcos Martin, who also got a variant cover out of the deal.
Martin
Very cool. Thing is, Slott had other ideas he pitched — and got rejected. But dang, if only they’d gotten the green light — 1960s cartoon Spider-Man and 1960s Filmation Superman, and Nicholas Hammond’s web-slinger and Christopher Reeve’s Man of Steel.
Oh, if only!
Slott took to social media to mourn:
Ludicrous stuff I pitched for SPIDER-MAN/SUPERMAN #1:"Can I do the Spider-Man '67 cartoon meets Filmation Superman '66 cartoon? Or Spider-Man '67 meets the Alex Toth designed SuperFriends Superman?"And Marvel was like, "Are you insane? Do you know the approvals we'd have to get for that? No."
Ludicrous stuff I pitched for SPIDER-MAN/SUPERMAN #1 Part 2 of 2:"Can I do 70's TV Live Action Nicholas Hammond Spider-Man meets Superman: The Movie Christopher Reeve Superman?"And Marvel was like, "You think that would be EASIER to get through? You KNOW how this works. What is wrong with you?!"
Those pesky approvals!
At least there’s always this old Alex Ross take-off on the back cover of the original 1976 Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man treasury edition, which was just released as a Facsimile Edition.
Ah, ya just can’t get everything in life. Oh, well.
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MORE
— SPIDER-MAN/SUPERMAN #1 Gets Its APRIL Publishing Date — With Tons of Covers. Click here.
— SUPERMAN/SPIDER-MAN #1 — by MARK WAID and JORGE JIMENEZ — Gets Its March Publishing Date. Click here.
January 20, 2026
I don’t understand why they didn’t put that Ross image on the back cover of the Alex Ross cover variant.I was totally expecting it to be there. It wasn’t like it was messing with it being a facsimile since the front cover was already by Ross. Total miss in my opinion
January 20, 2026
Likely a rights issue. They’d have to wrangle permission from (and payment to) the Reeves estate and from Hammond. And if if they could, the time to do so may have interfered with the publication schedule
January 20, 2026
Soon it will all be public domain anyway.
January 20, 2026
Not soon enough. 1930 only became public domain this year.
January 20, 2026
Yep, 2068 is right around the corner!
January 20, 2026
HA! I love that he pitched it. What’s even funnier is the response he got! A fan can dream!
January 20, 2026
So, I get that Reeve & Hammond might be a headache but, DC has already done 2 minis in the Reeve-verse, so to speak, and I can’t imagine Hammond turning down such a thing. How hard could a Spider-Man ’67 & Filmation or H-B Superman be to do rights-wise since both Filmation and H-B no longer exist? Someone explain it to me like I’m a 5 year old. Thanks for trying, Dan!
January 24, 2026
Delmo Walters Jr., here’s my guess: even though Filmation and H-B don’t exist, someone still owns those cartoons. My guess for the latter is Turner Broadcasting, which owns Cartoon Network. As for Filmation, I’m not sure about the ones with DC heroes. Dreamworks owns ones that didn’t have licensed characters. But the characters were licensed from the comics companies to begin with, so it seems like there should be some room for negotiation. Anyone else have thoughts or information?