Like someone else already mentioned, spidey’s webs are formulated to break down over time. Iirc, he has changed the formula to change how long that is, for special circumstances, but it’s usually described as “a couple of hours”.
I don’t recall any canon description of a hard limit to the timing, up or down, either. So it could be adjustable down to near instant to practically forever.
However, there is also web solvent mentioned a few times over the years, though no description of it beyond that comes to memory.
Now, afaik, the formula isn’t even really described as to exactly what it is. I vaguely recall one of the older issues mentioning it being like silk, and a much later generic “polymer” being used, but nothing was elaborated on in any of the issues I’ve read that I recall. I have read everything up to maybe ten years ago or so at least once. That’s when I discovered certain sites and programs that allow one access to digital copies for free, and spidey was the first character I binged like that, him being the first superhero I ever cared about (enough to have worn out a dozen sets of spidey underroos before 2nd grade).
Anyway, can you imagine how annoying it would be if it didn’t dissolve on its own? There’s been a few scenes where people bitch about the webbing as it is lol. A bunch of grumpy New Yorkers having to wait for city services to come along and deweb a sidewalk? Holy crap ::
Annoying? Quite the opposite. Forget the self dissolving property of the web and assume it’s there forever. Now you got a material that is extremely light and extremely strong and flexible. Companies are going to pay to collect them. It’s gonna be like ambergris, but exclusive to one city. People would flock to collect Spider-Man web. I wouldn’t be surprised if Spider-Man web is outlawed by the government and becomes even more valuable.
In the comics he tries to sell the compound and no one wants it iirc due to its lifespan. Stupid but at least it’s brought up
Parker could simply quit his job as a freelance photographer and sell the formula to his own web shit, because he made them himself and aren’t part of his super powers.
As a superior raimi fan, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
I firmly believe that the only reason Raimi made it that way in his movies is to have that scene of Peter learning how to use them.
“Up, up and away web!”
SHAZAM!
GET ME SPIDERMAN
-J.J.J in some universe
thoughts from the shower of one J. Jonah Jameson
Bruh I hate to break it to you, but they already have to do that. I took this photo on the 66th floor of the Sears tower this last summer. Note that the spider is on the outside of the window.
Damn, look at that little guy go!
Spiders usually do it in reverse. They tether themselves to what they are on then “let go” and let the wind take them, with their tether being a lifeline so they don’t go too fast and in case they don’t get anywhere, then they can just go back to where they came from.
Can he swing from a web?
I mean, probably.
