Giant Spiders

Giant Spiders
Name	Giant Spiders
Aliases	Zamorian Giant Spiders, man-eating spiders of Zamora, titan spiders
Affiliation and Identity
Affiliation	Servants of Reimos
Physical Characteristics
Body Type	Arachnoid
Average Height	Variable
Average Weight	Variable
Number of Limbs	8
Origin and Status
Origin	Giant spiders
Reality	Earth-616
Base of Operations	Zamora
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Stan Lee, Al Gabriele
First	Young Allies #2 (November, 1941)
First	Young Allies #2 (November, 1941)

The giant spiders were many species of gigantic spiders dwelling Earth, notably during the Hyborian Age. At least some species lived in Zamora.

Some of them have been confused for deities, while a few deities appeared as giant spiders.

History

Pre-Cataclysmic Age

Circa 18,500 BC, as King Kull of Valusia searched the Forbidden Lake, in Zalgara, for his comrade Brule, he was attacked by a water-walking giant spider, whom he killed.

Hyborian Age

Yara, priest of the Spider God in Arenjun, had a giant black spider standing guard in his Tower of the Elephant. The spider slew Taurus of Nemedia but was killed by Conan the Cimmerian, who wondered who the spider had been before being turned into this form by Yara.

After his daughters were enslaved by pirate captain Dalvate, and himself was tortured for days and nights, then cast overboard the ship, almost lifeless, Reimos recovered physically but became mad. He served the Black Gods of R'lyeh, the Old Ones, the Goat with a Thousand Young, and the children of Great Cthulhu, and seemingly interacted with some of them. In exchange, they gave him a web-envelopped castle inhabited by giant spiders. Mad with dark ambitions over the world, the castle, the spiders, and seemingly Reimos himself were all destroyed by fire by Conan.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Some giant spiders can walk on water.

Miscellaneous

Representatives

Long-Legs, the Spider God of Jaffa Island, Zoroaster, Teena

Omm, the Spider-God and Zath were deities in the form of giant spiders, while Kah-Tah-Dhen the Decapitating God, the Mother of Spiders, could be either.

Notes

Though some deities existed under the form of giant spiders, such as Omm, the Spider-God of Yezud in Zamora, or Zath, also from Yezud, many seemingly genuine giant spiders were also worshiped as gods: Kah-Tah-Dhen the Decapitating God, the Mother of Spiders (worshiped in Lemuria and Shem), Long-Legs (worshiped by the Killer-Folk of Dinosaur World), or the Spider God of Jaffa Island.

See Also

• 23 appearance(s) of Giant Spiders
• 3 minor appearance(s) of Giant Spiders
• 10 mention(s) of Giant Spiders
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Giant Spiders
• 2 image(s) of Giant Spiders
• 1 victim(s) killed by Giant Spiders
• 4 representative(s) of Giant Spiders