The very very original was created to help him in his pre-bite stuntman career he wanted to pursue, which he then modified to the spider gimmick.
Them being tech was more than just a reload plot point, as it also allowed him absurd fluidity with them in terms of what they could be made to do instead of just being sticky ropes. Which made his powers constantly evolving and developing, more befitting of a scientist hero than a brutish one who simply used the same powers but harder.
I'm not familiar with any pre Spider-Man stunt career. That must be a retcon added after I stopped reading in early 1990s. u/ernsithe posted the panel from Amazing Fantasy #15 where he invents them, using "liquid cement" with little explanation or fanfare:
So, they laughed at me for being a bookworm, eh? Well, only a science major could have created a device like this.
It made sense for them to take them out of the Raimi movie, as it would have added extra complication when they could just make it a part of his power set granted from the spider. It made equal sense to put it back in the Andrew Garfield film, as he stole most of the work from the lab with the spiders genetically modified to improve the strength of their webs. There was a much stronger science focus in that film.
The very very original was created to help him in his pre-bite stuntman career he wanted to pursue, which he then modified to the spider gimmick.
Them being tech was more than just a reload plot point, as it also allowed him absurd fluidity with them in terms of what they could be made to do instead of just being sticky ropes. Which made his powers constantly evolving and developing, more befitting of a scientist hero than a brutish one who simply used the same powers but harder.
I'm not familiar with any pre Spider-Man stunt career. That must be a retcon added after I stopped reading in early 1990s. u/ernsithe posted the panel from Amazing Fantasy #15 where he invents them, using "liquid cement" with little explanation or fanfare:
It made sense for them to take them out of the Raimi movie, as it would have added extra complication when they could just make it a part of his power set granted from the spider. It made equal sense to put it back in the Andrew Garfield film, as he stole most of the work from the lab with the spiders genetically modified to improve the strength of their webs. There was a much stronger science focus in that film.