Spider-Ham



Hailing from an alternate universe filled with anthropomorphic characters utilizing cartoon physics, the super hero known as Spider-Ham was once an ordinary spider, living in the basement of the genius scientist May Porker. May sought to revolution the hair care industry, and during an experiment for her atomic hairdryer, she was irradiated and driven into a fit of madness, during which she bit the spider- causing it to mutate and take on her pig biology while retaining his spider abilities. Reviving the collapsed scientist, the newborn Spider-Pig was dubbed Peter Porker, who May believed to be her nephew and decided to take him in.

After numerous adventures alongside the heroes of his own universe, such as Captain Americat, Spider-Ham found himself the target of a hunt across the multiverse- chased by an ancient race of beings called The Inheritors, who were consuming Spider-Powered people across all worlds. Spider-Ham joined a team of disparate heroes to fight them off, befriending his alternate universe counterparts such as Spider-Man and Spider-Gwen. Once the conflict was finished, Ham decided to stay in touch with several of them, forming an inter-dimensional hero team known as the Web Warriors.

Spider-Ham (Monster Venom Series)
Part of 2018's Venom themed wave coordinated to release with the character's self-titled film, Spider-Ham is one of the only non-Symbiote figures released in the wave. The figure's appearance is largely inspired by the character's more cartoonish proportions featured in modern crossover appearances such as Spider-Verse and Spider-Geddon, rather than his classic appearances. Due to his unique shape and design, Spider-Ham is an entirely original sculpt, borrowing no pre-existing parts. Spider-Ham features severely lower-than-average articulation- featuring only a ball jointed neck and waist, as well as ball-hinge shoulders, elbows and swivel joints in the wrists and boots.

Due to his small size, Spider-Ham includes the largest piece of the Build-A-Figure, Monster Venom, which is noticeably larger than the figure itself, and split into two pieces in order to fit it into the card. The figure includes one other accessory- an alternate head for the classic Venom figure in the wave, which converts that figure into Pork Grind.

MAFEX no. 134 - Spider-Gwen
Spider-Ham saw release as a pack-in accessory for the 134th figure in Medicom's MAFEX toyline, the Into the Spider-Verse film variant of Spider-Gwen. Like the rest of the figures in the Into the Spider-Verse MAFEX sub-line, Spider-Ham is designed to as faithfully translate his appearance from the animated movie as possible. Due to his cartoonish proportions, small 2" size, and being an accessory instead of a dedicated release, Spider-Ham is largely unarticulated - featuring a single joint at the head.

Despite being an accessory himself, Spider-Ham does include a set of accessories for himself - he has a total of four arms which can be swapped out to offer a variety of poses. He includes a "normal" bent left and right arm, a web-shooting posed left arm and a cartoon mallet wielding left arm.

The set is currently scheduled for release in April 2021.

Funko Pop! #410 - Spider-Ham (Walgreens Exclusive)
Released as figure number 410 in the Pop line of novelty collectible vinyl bobble-heads, Spider-Ham is created to tie into the release of the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse animated film, with a sculpt combining the traditional house style of the Funko Pop line with the exaggerated cartoon features of the character seen in the film. Spider-Ham is an entirely original sculpt.

The figure saw limited release as an exclusive to the Walgreens pharmaceutical chain, released alongside a variant of the Spider-Man (Noir) figure, in a more static pose and without his hat.

Funko Dorbz #360 - Spider-Ham (Walgreens Exclusive)
Spider-Ham also saw release in Funko's alternate style toyline, Dorbz, as figure number 360. Like all Dorbz, Spider-Ham features an extremely simplified design and shares a body mold with numerous other figures repainted to match the style of the entire super-deformed series. Spider-Ham features a unique head sculpt due to his unique pig shaped features.

The figure was released in 2018 exclusively through Walgreens, much like his larger Funko Pop bobble-head counterpart.

Mystery Minis - Spider-Ham
A blind-box figure, Spider-Ham was one of the multiple options available in the Into the Spider-Verse series of Funko's Mystery Minis toyline. Due to the blind box nature of the line, and the randomization of case layouts, reports have varied, but the figure seems generally limited to one per case. Like all other figures in the toyline, Spider-Ham lacks articulation, and features a bobble-head due to limitations of the license not allowing Funko to produce traditional toys or actions figures featuring Marvel characters.

An alternate case layout for the Into the Spider-Verse box was released exclusively to Walgreens stores, dropping three of the original series figures with three alternate variants. Spider-Ham is still one of the figures available in this exclusive set, but it is unknown if his rarity ratio is any different from the wider retail set.

BattleWorld Series 1 - Spider-Ham
Released as part of the first series of figures in Funko's small scale collectible miniature action game, BattleWord: Mystery of the Thanostones, Spider-Ham is a common rarity character, available as one of over 30 potential figures mixed into a blind box set, called a Battle Ball. Spider-Ham is a static figure in a neutral pose identical to the other figures in the series. He comes with a character card, which gives him an ability called "Surprise" which allows the character to win any battle when his die is rolled on the correlating shape.

An alternate variety of the figure was released alongside the common release in Series 1's Battle Balls, as one of the six characters chosen to get Ultra Rare tier recolors based on each of the individual Infinity Stones. Spider-Ham Infinity is the same figure as the normal figure, but cast in translucent purple plastic instead. While the figure includes an alternate version of the character card that came with the normal release, it is mechanically identical to the original figure.

Heroclix - Spider-Ham #M-025
Spider-Ham was released as a Heroclix figure as a convention and limited time event exclusive figure in 2015 as a standalone character piece for the Heroclix tabletop game. The figure was given out as a special reward for top ranking players at certain organized events from 2015 onwards. Due to the high demand for the figure, it was rereleased in 2017 as a special order item for specialty stores, intended to be used as prizes for local tournaments to attempt to attract new players to smaller stores.

Spider-Ham is a powerful unit, designed to synergize best on teams with other Spider-Family characters, with stats that make him difficult to hit. His dial and character cards grant him Super Senses, Flurry, Willpower, Shape Change, Perplex, Combat Reflexes and Outwit abilities, providing numerous melee combat options for the character.