This is the story of a meme born from the 1960s Spider-Man animated series, a show that could have been just another forgettable Saturday morning cartoon. Here’s a dive into meme history.

No one is going to argue that Spider-Man stories make for some of the best memes. The internet is still getting mileage out of the Spider-Man pointing meme, which grew so popular that it was ...

Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can”) or the omnipresent pointing meme, from the Episode 19 story “Double Identity.” The animation is, of course, very much of its time: blocky outlines ...