Eugene Bilbrew, friend of Eric Stanton (and quite likely known to Spiderman's Steve Ditko, who shared a studio with Stanton) seems to have beaten them BOTH to the spider. Here is Bilbrew's rendition of a Spiderwoman several years before Stanton and Ditko cooked up the superhero. From the cover of Leonard Burtman's Exotique Digest.
Times Square Smut is forthcoming, and will include numerous revelations about the artists, writers, models and producers who created an artistic explosion of fetishistic sex pulp in the 1950s still influencing popular culture today.
