Assuming Spider-Man is referring to the proportional strength of a spider.

As Tom Spurgeon points out in the link to last night's post ("Spider-Man is correct") he put in the "Quick Hits and Craft" section of his June 24 post, "Spider-Man Is Not Correct." And Tom is correct regarding whether or not Spider-Man's statement is correct. Most, if not all, bald guys are stronger than most, if not all, spiders. I'm pretty sure even the weakest bald guy in the world (Mr. Burns from The Simpsons holds that title, I think) could bench press more weight than the strongest spider in the world.

A man with the proportional strength of a spider, like Spider-Man, is stronger than most bald guys, however. Certainly stronger than The Puppet Master, whose dolls he's depicted taking away above.

Spider-Man should really speak more clearly. And I should have thought of Tom's joke, which was funnier than mine.

Spider-Man is correct.

There are quite a few mad scientists in my men's social club, and a few of them actually proved spider strength's superiority to bald guy's strength scientifically. They irradiated me and then had me bite a puny high school nerd.

Did the kid gain the proportional strength of a bald guy? The results were inconclusive, as my strength is pretty much the equivalent of your average puny high school nerd. But the test subject's hair did get a bit thinner within the week, and I had to have some skin abnormalities removed a few months later.



(Panel scanned from Marvel Adventures Avengers #37, written by Paul Tobin and illustrated by Dario Brizuela and Leandro Corral)

Monday Morning Man vs. Cephalopod Moment

From Marvel Adventures: The Avengers #2 by Jeff Parker, Manuel Garcia and Scott Koblish (Marvel; 2006)