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HOW THE CREATION OF MARVEL 616 LED TO SPIDER-MAN'S FIRST MULTIVERSE JOURNEYДavid Thorpe explained to how he came up with the idea of having the 'real' Marvel Universe labeled as Earth-616 and it came down to the Marvel UK writers wanting to NOT deal with the regular Marvel Universe for fear of getting Marvel irked at them:Д«ecause we wanted to do anything we liked, we set a goal that Captain Britain was going to come back in this alternate universe, which was nothing to do with what was then the mainstream Marvel Universe, so that anything that we did wouldn't upset the continuity of the main Marvel Universe.

Despite the phrase being overheard from Stan, both the concept and its name were my ideaвЂ“there wasn't even a co-creating artist in this case, although Jim Craig drew WHAT IF #1.'

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I always found it was easier to sell Stan on the idea to a series if I used a name/phrase that I knew he likedвЂ“like THE INVADERS and WHAT IF.

Stan Lee, who probably didn't read that story, was given to using the expression 'What if'вЂ“ not that it was especially unique to himвЂ“and it was from Stan's usage that I concocted the notion of the series. believing that I got the idea for the WHAT IF series from a Gardner Fox story (which, I must admit, I do not recallвЂ“I was never a big followers of Batman as a young adult, even when the 'New Look' came in circa 1964), I don't think my old friend and quasi-mentor Gardner had anything to do with it. The interesting thing, of course, is the Multiverse has been a staple in Marvel Comics since the 1970s, with Roy Thomas once explaining to Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool about how he coined the idea (and not from a Batman comic book that involved a 'What If.? room,' 'hile I can understand. Heck, Spider-Man rarely went on adventures outside of New York City, let alone outside of this universe! It is interesting that something that has become so connected with Spider-Man after Into the Spider-Verse was not really something that Spider-Man DID for many, many years.

A few different readers had asked me recently in the lead-up to Spider-Man: No Way Home when was the first time that Spider-Man visited an alternate reality.