SWING
Earth-26957
Real Name: Peter Parker
Identity/Class: Alternate reality
(Earth-26957) human mutate (fringe character)
Occupation: Adventurer
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Claw-hide,
Scavenger
(possibly both of Earth-616 - see
comments)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Unrevealed
First Appearance: Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) (Fall, 1996)
Powers/Abilities: Swing possesses the
proportionate strength, speed and agility of a monkey, as well as an
unspecified "monkey sense."
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'10")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 167 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (presumably hazel)
Hair: Brown (with white trim in fur)
History:
(Spider-Man Magazine I (#19)) - Peter Parker was bitten by a
radioactive monkey, gaining the strength, speed, agility and penchant
for bananas of a monkey. Becoming the adventurer Swing, Parker became
enemies with the genetically modified villains Claw-hide and Scavenger.
Comments: Created by Harry Lee Lonon III.
Earth-26957's Swing was
the
product of Marvel's Spider-Man Magazine's "What If?" section featured
in later issues of the series in which the magazine asked a specific
"What If..." question to its young readers and they would mail in
drawings in response to the question. In the 19th issue of the
magazine, readers were asked to draw images of "What If Peter Parker
Had Been Bitten by a Radioactive Monkey, Instead of a Spider?" In this
particular case, Swing was created by then-13-year-old Harry Lee Lonon
III
of Charlotte, North Carolina.
After Spider-Man Magazine I#10, the issues of the magazine were no longer numbered and were only differentiated by the season and year the issue was published (i.e. "Fall, 1996," for example), as the magazine had moved from monthly publication to seasonal. According to the indicias of the Adventures of Spider-Man and Adventures of the X-Men trade paperbacks released a few years ago (which also reprinted some of the exclusive comic strips seen in Spider-Man Magazine), the issue that featured Earth-26957's Swing would have been #19.
I love that Harry Lee Lenon III
made use of the Fleer Ultra Spider-Man trading cards' mashup characters
Claw-hide and Scavenger by making them enemies of Swing, even if
they're only mentioned in the Spider-Man Magazine article and not
actually seen. Since the Fleer Ultra Spider-Man card characters are
equally fringe, the Fleer Ultra Spider-Man trading card for Claw-hide
specifically mentions Spider-Man and both Claw-hide and Scavenger were
previously assumed to be native to Earth-616. This suggests that
perhaps, at some point, Swing traveled to Earth-616 (or at the very
least, outside his own reality), where he encountered Claw-hide and
Scavenger. Of course, it's also possible that the Claw-hide and
Scavenger that were enemies of Swing could be counterparts of those
characters native to Earth-26957. For the purposes of this profile, I'm
choosing to treat the Claw-hide and Scavenger as the same ones from the
trading cards. After all, it wouldn't be the first time a Peter Parker
counterpart has traveled to Earth-616...and hey, it would be pretty
interesting if these "What If?" Peter Parker counterparts from
Spider-Man Magazine (the ones bitten by radioactive birds, ants and
monkeys) showed in a Spider-Verse story at some point!
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-26957's Swing should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
Spider-Man Magazine I (#19) (Fall, 1996) - "What If?: Swing" - Harry
Lee Lonon III (writer, art), Amy Weingartner (editor)
First posted: 08/13/2024
Last updated: 08/13/2024
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
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