FAQ
(Frequently asked questions)
Here is an incomplete list of redundant questions I get asked through E-Mail every day...Please keep the mail coming though, I just hope to give some quicker answers to some questions that keep popping up!
Current FAQ
Can you create an X-Men site similar to this site?
I get asked this alot lately as well as other character sites and the answer is Yes. I have in my collection every Marvel mainstream title since Fantastic Four #1 to present and have the means to do so. with many ideas on all of them.
Where are your Marvel Tales comics?
I do not have a separate section for Marvel Tales or any other reprint titles yet in the Comics area but do plan on doing so. Currently I am still adding to Marvel Tales and will eventually include all the most popular reprint titles in a new section.
Will I create a character profile for Cloak and Dagger?
I am pretty sure that I will eventually
add character profiles for these two Spider-Man related characters in the
future but have a couple of other characters planned, either new or
expanded, before them.
Permanent FAQ
Do you have info on this or that?
In the event that this site does not have what you are looking for, and NO site has everything pertaining to a given subject, I would suggest visiting The Unofficial Spider-Man Site for Spidey info, Spider-Man Hype! for Spider-Man movie news, and Spider-Man Crawl Space for other info and unique features. Also visit all the Message Boards links for the most up to date news on Spider-Man.
Will the Spider-Man Movie be coming out?
Yes, Now it will after all the court battles
have been finished...Since the beginning of the decade, A Spidey
Movie was supposed to hit the big screens & now our wait is
almost over...See my News section for more & the Links
section for any others including probably the finest site out
there concerning the future Movie in Spider-Man
Hype!
Who is Spider-Man? (Or even, Am I Spider-Man?:))
With the tons of
material presented on this site, there HAS to be a section devoted
to Spider-Man himself...First, there is the Spider-Man Profile that will give you
all your important stats on Peter Parker himself as well as the
masked version...And this will be periodically added to as time
goes on...Next you can view the History Of Spider-Man which
is also a growing section of this site that presents a visual and
text based (like a comic!) summary of the different era's in the
life of Spider-Man with all the good and bad in his life...Oh
yeah, nope...I'm not Spider-Man! (Surprised:)?)
What is the Purpose of this Site?
What is the purpose of
any site? To Educate, Inform, Entertain, and Familiarize Others
involving a particular subject matter(s).. In this case learning
more about Spider-Man and all related characters in his legacy in
a visible forum similar to the Medium which he originated in: A
Comic Book!...Pictures and Words...There will be ample supply of
Full-Shot Images to Supplement all Bio's, Cover-Info, Reviews,
and other text laden Pages...You need BOTH to fully inform
readers about Comic-Related information...After all, we are not
writing the great American novel here!
Do I work for Marvel Comics?
Marvel owns the Trademarks (Name or Symbol identifying a certain product legally restricted to use by the owner) & Copyrights (Legal right to exclusive Production or Sale of an artistic work) to all characters involved with Spider-Man and the Marvel Universe...I do not work for Marvel comics...I am a CPA who does this as a hobby mainly because of the love of the Comics hobby as well as being around many computer-literate people in my life to learn from throughout the years...I've taken quite a bit of art courses in throughout school & college, but never seriously aspired to be any kind of artist nor have it as my major...The material on this site seem to all contain many things I enjoy.
Can I take some Images/Pics/Etc. from your site?
You obviously can, but
I would rather give permission first as I personally would like
to have unique scanned images on my site...Every design, setup,
idea, image & animation on this site has been created by me
and much of it is NOT easy...So you can imagine seeing your work
and ideas on another Web-Site and think of all the effort you put
into the creation...I KNOW other web-masters have shared this
same feeling first hand.
How do I create the Scanned Images on this Site?
I use a UMAX wide bed
Scanner for most scans and edit the scans with various Software
programs ranging from Adobe's Applications, mainly Photoshop to Jasc Paint Shop Pro
to Microsoft's Photo Draw...I also use Ulead's
Applications...For Animations, I use Animation Shop & Ulead GIF
Animator...If anyone knows of any other fine applications,
let me know!...I use FrontPage 2000 to author my sites and I DO
do a lot of straight HTML and JavaScript tweaking in both...I have also used
Macromedia's Flash on certain pages but will incorporate it more in time as
hopefully more and more viewers are able to view them on their computers.
Where do I find the Images in their original form?
I've been collecting for 20 years now, and am lucky to have in that collection basically all Marvel Universe Comics from Fantastic Four #1 to present...Other than that, I look for the obvious lower print run version of an issue or an obscure publication or pic for unique shots...Marvel Handbooks, Wizards, News Articles and the like are all good places to get good shots.
Can you put my link on your site?
If the site is Spider-Man related or related to Comics in some way and it is in good taste, the answer most of the time is Yes...I would hope that other sites would respectfully reciprocate and link me back also...I have had agreements to link in the past without execution on the other web-master's part, yet will continue to include their link to further promote the subject as it would benefit the readers. Unfortunately there exists webmasters who would rather promote themselves than the subject matter involved and even go as far as "sponsoring" sites instead, further creating a "clique" amongst themselves, ultimately NOT benefiting readers interested in the subject matter...I am a man of my word so just send me the URL and name of the site and I will check it out!
Do you have the Spider-Man theme songs on your site and where can I download them?
After MANY requests to offer just this, I have a section in the "young" entertainment section that has the Downloads and the Lyrics...Try it out!: Spider-Man Music
How big is this site?
This site is planned to grow quite a bit from its present 161 Megs (Over 7,300 files) size with the addition of new Wallpaper, many new pics, updated information, histories, covers, and the like...Lately I have been decreasing file size on all the images on the site and have created a much shorter download time for the profiles and histories...This has reduced the size of the site considerably...The possible future inclusion of larger cover images would DRAMATICALLY increase the size of the site.
Why is this site referred to as a Gallery?
This site in its early days was to be a Marvel Cover Gallery, then a Spider-Man Cover Gallery...It was STILL named that until I wanted to expand on its content and there being another excellent site with THAT same name...I re-named it the Amazing Spider-Man Gallery mostly because of this evolution plus the fact that it is very graphic intensive.
Who, then, is Samruby?
My name is Eric, NOT Samruby...Sam is my nutcase Doberman Pincher & Ruby is my lazy Borzoi (Russian Wolfhound)...I have had the same screen-name on AOL for a long time and also my domain name...Oh yeah, Sam Ruby did NOT shoot the man identified to be Lee Harvey Oswald...THAT was JACK Ruby!
This site
& all scanned images created & maintained by Eric Gillette
Thank you very much for your visit!