Obviously there are other countries that have gotten Spidey fever and here are a few more examples. The band dissolved after a few years thanks to puberty and the elusiveness of commercial success, but they did record the song “Batman” under the name Super Babys and I found this TV appearance in 2009 by band member Astrid Fenollar though she isn’t wearing a Spidey suit. Regaliz starred in two movies - La Rebellion de Pajaros and Buenas noches, señor monstruo - and appeared in a couple others. The band’s name translates to “Licorice” and the band’s creation was in response to their label, Belter, having an earlier succes with an all-kid group called Parchis. More importantly, they did a cover of the Village People’s “Can’t Stop The Music.” Looking over their brief discography, I was really disappointed to find out that “ Tom Sawyer” from the same album is NOT the Rush song, though it does have a pleasing “What if Abba had kids and raised them in Spain?” vibe to it. It’s bouncy and cheesy and I cannot bring myself to dislike it, and besides it gets bonus points for dressing up band members in Spidey suits on the cover.

This Spanish kids’ group from the 1980s proclaim “Spiderman es mi amigo!” on this chipper song. Last week’s Spanish TV theme for Spider-Man sent me looking a little further into Marvel Comics representations in that market and I was delighted to find this single by a Spanish children’s group from the 1980s that exist as sort of a footnote in the bigger page dominated by bands like Menudo, who actually found an audience outside of the Latinx market, and others who were huge within that market but never pierced it.

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