

Unlike other live-action and cartoon productions of Spider-Man, this version of the web-slinging hero did not speak out loud, instead communicating only with word balloons (having a similar role to Clarabell the Clown of Howdy Doody), in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth. In many of these sketches, in keeping with Stan Lee’s writing style, viewers were addressed as "true believers".

The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator. She later helps Spider-man battle and defeat The Vulture and turn him over to the police in Spidey Super Stories #11, August 1975.Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities, although sometimes the crooks would commit more serious crimes such as assault or larceny.

Spider-man met her in costume as she crawled up a wall and he allowed her to continue operating as the other “Spider-person”. After getting the suit, she customizes it to compensate for the fact she has no natural spider powers. Then she has the Spider-man costume fall in her lap while thinking about how cool Spider-man was.

She witnesses Spider-man save a jewelry store from the Vulture. While working at the library she was attacked by ‘the April fool” whom she managed to thwart with her quick thinking right as Spider-Man arrived. In the library she had to deal with the Bookworm then the Vanisher. Valerie works at a library where she met Spider-man. She used suction cups on the fingers and feet of the costume to mimic his wall crawling abilities. Costume Trivia: Valerie found a Spider-man costume and customized it to mimic the real Spider-man’s power.
