Posted By Dan Greenfield on Jan 20, 2026 | 1 comment

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."

— DanSlott (@danslott.bsky.social) 2026-01-17T01:14:18.757Z

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?!"

— DanSlott (@danslott.bsky.social) 2026-01-17T01:19:26.006Z

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.