Spider-Man #1 leaps into new, more diverse era as black teen dons mask

Marvel’s launch of mixed-race teenager Miles Morales as its chief wall-crawler marks a new kind of comic superhero

First there was female Thor clobbering anti-feminist critics, then came Muslim teenager Ms Marvel, Kamala Khan: Wednesday brings the first black Spider-Man, with Miles Morales spinning his web in a new reboot of the character, Spider-Man #1.

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