Spider-Bitch



Born into the post-apocalyptic dystopic timeline of Old Man Logan, Ashley Barton is the daughter of Clint Barton and the granddaughter of Spider-Man. Decades after a supervillain plot to wipe out their heroic adversaries and divide up the world into their own territories succeeded, Barton grew up in the outskirts of what was once Las Vegas, now dubbed Hammer Falls for the final resting place of Thor's hammer Mjolnir, which was run by The Kingpin. Deciding to take up a mantle inspired by her deceased grandfather, Ashley began to call herself Spider-Bitch and launched an attack on Kingpin's forces, which was quickly put down and resulted in her capture and pending execution.

When her father teamed up with Logan in an ill-advised attempt to smuggle Super Soldier Serum across the nation and overthrow the Red Skull, they came across the captive Ashley and set her free, only to be surprised when she brutally murdered the Kingpin and attempted to kill Clint as well, forcing the older men to flee. She would take control of Hammer Falls for herself, where she reigned for some years, until an interdimensional family of vampire-like killers began hunting the totemic spider-powered people across the multiverse, including Ashley, who joined with the rest of the multiverse's Spiders to fight them. During this period, due to stronger censorship in more mainstream Marvel books, the character was redubbed Spider-Woman.

Web-Slinging Heroines (Space Venom Series) (2016)
Ashley Barton's first action figure was released as part of the second Spider-Man themed wave released in 2016 for Hasbro's Marvel Legends: Infinite Series. Side-stepping the issues with the character's name, Spider-Bitch is released as a Swap Figure alongside Silk under the simple title "Web-Slinging Heroines", though both came packed together in the same case, and with different Build-A-Figure pieces unlike previous Swap Figures. Despite this, the packaging does identify the character under the title "Spider-Girl" on the back of the box.

The figure is released on the "medium female" Infinite Series body mold, initially seen on Medusa, with a newly sculpted head based on the artwork of Steve McNiven from the original Old Man Logan storyline. The figure features one hand in a permanently sculpted fist, and the left hand open in a gripping pose, presumably meant to allow recreations of the moment in which she uses a shotgun to decapitate the Kingpin, though no weapon or other accessories are included.

The figure comes with a single build-a-figure piece, the torso of Space Venom.

Series 74 - Old Man Logan & Ashley Barton Spider-Girl (2018)
Barton received her debut in the roughly 2" scaled line of Marvel Minimates miniature figures in the first wave of figures released in 2018, and the 74th series of the Marvel Minimates line of themed two-packs altogether, dubbed the "Greatest Stories" wave, with each of the individual two-packs based on separate storylines from across Marvel History. Fittingly, Spider-Bitch is packaged alongside Wolverine, based on their appearances in the original Old Man Logan storyline.

Barton is based on the same basic figure mold that all other Minimates have been, creating a stylized uniformity across the line, where costume details are largely expressed through paint instead of individual molded parts. The one exception to this rule is the hair piece; an original piece designed to plug into the top of the standard Minimate head in order to recreate the look of the character.

The only accessories included in the set are for the Old Man Logan figure instead, which comes with a separate head, hair piece, torso piece and bare arms to change Old Man Logan from his jacketed look from the early parts of the series, the tanktop look from the end of the series, or a non-Old Man Logan younger Wolverine; though due to the modular nature of Minimates, any of the pieces can be used with Ashley as well. Like all Minimates, the figures also included two 34mm clear plastic bases they can peg into for stability.