Alias

Spider Woman IV
Nick Name
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Civilian ID
Martha (Mattie) Franklin
Occupation

Adventurer

Student
Legal Status
Citizen of the United States with no criminal record.
Nation or Planet of Origin
New York, New York
Group Affiliation
None
Base of Operations
New York, New York
Height
5' 8"
Weight
120 lbs.
Eye Color
Brown
Hair Color
Brown
Skin Tone
Caucasian
Known Powers
Mystical enhancements enabling superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, durability and flight.

Absorption of previous Spider-Women' powers enable ability to stick to surfaces, fire bio-blast, create psionic webs, sprout spider-tentacle from back and psychic sensory powers including; clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition and psionic recognition in others.
Accessories
None
Common Enemies

Dr. Octopus I

Flesh & Bones

Spider-Woman III
Regularly Appearing

Alias

Spider-Woman Vol. 3
First Appearance
Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #5 (May, 1999)
Creator
Howard Mackie & John Byrne
Origin
Mattie Franklin, a fifteen-year-old girl, took her father's place at an arcane ceremony called the Gathering of Five, presided over by financier Norman Osborne (Green Goblin I).  The chances of the ceremony were that the participants would be granted one of five gifts: wisdom, immortality, power, madness or death.  Franklin was fortunate and acquired the gift of infinite power.

Franklin used her new powers to assume the identity of her idol, the amazing Spider-Man, in his absence.  When he returned, she took another related identity that of the newest Spider-Woman.

Mattie's crime-fighting career would bring her into conflict with a villain also claiming the name Spider-Woman, who was being controlled by Dr. Octopus.  This conflict would lead to Franklin acquiring the powers of the three previous Spider-Women, and another participant in the Gathering of Five, the psychic Madame Web.