Lesley Stahl gets the first look at the rehearsal and production of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” the most ambitious and expensive musical ever brought to a Broadway stage on a recent 60 Minutes:
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Is There An International Crime Ring Involving Robbers Wearing Spider-Man Masks?
Charlie Jane Anders asks the tough question on io9.com: Was J. Jonah Jameson right all along?
Yesterday, a weirdly polite criminal dressed in a Spider-Man mask and armed with a screwdriver robbed a video store near Sydney, Australia. This is just the latest in a long string of Spidey-masked crimes around the world. What gives?
No criminals ever put on Batman’s cowl before going out on a crime spree — maybe because it doesn’t cover their full faces, or maybe because they are cowardly and superstitious. We did news searches for all the major superheroes, plus things like “Klingon” and “Stormtrooper,” and no dice. When evildoers want to seem like a threat or a menace, they don a Spidey mask. Could J. Jonah Jameson have been right all along?
Consider the evidence on io9.com. Here’s just one example from Chattanooga, Tennessee:
