LONG-LEGS

Real Name: Long-Legs

Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-78411/Dinosaur World) arachnid

Occupation: Predator, worshiped by the Killer-Folk

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Killer-Folk (formerly)

Enemies: Devil Dinosaur, Hulk (Bruce Banner), Killer-Folk, Moon Boy

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: A cave on the outskirts of a forest in the Dinosaur World dimension

First Appearance: Devil Dinosaur#2 (May, 1978)

Powers/Abilities: Long-Legs was a giant spider (possibly a tarantula) with highly venomous poison that paralyzed its prey. Oddly enough, Long-Legs initially did not appear to use any form of webbing, but was later depicted as having this ability (see comments).

Height: Unrevealed  (4'6"; by approximation)
Length: Unrevealed (6'; by approximation)
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Brown (although it would actually be setae)

History:
(Devil Dinosaur#2) - The heroic young wanderer known as Moon Boy and his constant companion, the flame-red Tyrannosaurus Rex known as Devil, were attacked by the brutal race known as the Killer-Folk, led by Seven-Scars. The savage primitives buried Devil Dinosaur under an avalanche of boulders, and the unconscious Moon Boy was taken captive by them.

   When Moon Boy awoke, he found himself tied between two stakes as the monstrous Long-Legs emerged from its cave. The sadistic Killer-Folk taunted Moon-Boy with vivid descriptions of the horrible death he was about to endure--"See the sharp claws of Long-Legs rise to strike!" "They will pierce him until he is stiffened by their poison! It will be pleasing to watch!".

   However, the Killer-Folk's laughter stopped when one of them heard a noise behind him, for Devil had arrived, having only been knocked unconscious; in his jaws, Devil was carrying a flaming branch from a raging fire in the nearby forest, and he set the field alight, trapping the Killer-Folk within a wall of flame. Then Devil rushed over and "he literally snatched Moon Boy from the jaws of death!".

   Devil carried Moon Boy safely through the flames (stepping on Seven Scars on the way out, for good measure), leaving the Killer-Folk to their doom.

   Desperate, the Killer-Folk took refuge in Long-Legs' cave--"He is nowhere to be seen, perhaps the flames took him!"--Wrong. The great spider had been robbed of a victim and harassed by the fire. He was in no mood to tolerate intruders. His claws rose up as he lunged to attack...

   Devil and Moon Boy heard an outbreak of howls and screams above the roar of the flames--the Killer-Folk's way was one of death, and they had found what they came for.









(Symbiote Spider-Man: Crossroads#3) - The Killer-Folk found Bruce Banner and brought him to Long-Legs' cave as a feast for the spider and its children. Long-Legs webbed up Bruce as soon as the Killer-Folk were gone. Bruce, who was sporting a Norn Stone at the time, allowed a more monstrous version of the Hulk to take control and transformed into something that wasn't quite the Hulk, but a more of an alien-looking creature. It ripped off Long-Legs' webbing and fought back against the giant spider. Long-Legs got one of its legs ripped off before the Hulk squashed thousands of Long-Legs' tiny, crawling children. The Hulk tackled Long-Legs through the cave entrance to the outside. The hungry, giant spider fought for its survival, but eventually the Hulk just lifted it up in the air and ripped the screaming spider apart.

Comments: Created by Jack Kirby.

I wonder if Long-Legs could be Omm? Well, since Devil Dinosaur is set in the prehistoric era, not the Hyborean Age, and Long-Legs likely survived the fire, perhaps he lived on to become the spider god Omm?
    While I really like Omm, I can't endorse this comment. Devil Dinosaur was set in an alternate dimension, Dinosaur World. Could he have been an alternate world version of Omm...I guess.

Along with Long-Legs, Dinosaur World also had huge flying insects [perhaps dragonflies]--maybe their unusually large sizes were somehow connected with the Giant Folk of that world [e.g. Giant and Ruka].--Ron Fredricks

Long-Legs looked quite different in his more recent appearance, but it was probably just artistic license or that the spider had grown up.
--Markus Raymond

...Or maybe they were two different spiders entirely--maybe the one Moon Boy and Devil encountered was one of the not-quite-fully-grown children of the later one. Maybe "Long-Legs" was not an individual, but just a generic term that the Killer-Folk used for spiders in general.--Ron Fredricks

New and additional images by Ron Fredricks.

Profile by Darc_Light. Update by Markus Raymond (Symbiote Spider-Man).

CLARIFICATIONS:
Long-Legs should not be confused with:

images: (without ads)
Devil Dinosaur#2, p14, pan5 (main image - Long-Legs; Moon Boy saved by Devil Dinosaur)
Devil Dinosaur#2, p13, pan1 (headshot - Long-Legs emerges from cave)
Devil Dinosaur#2, p16, pan4 (Long-Legs; Killer-Folk)
Devil Dinosaur#2, p16, pan5 (Long-Legs attacks Killer-Folk)
Symbiote Spider-Man: Crossroads#3, p4, pan1 (webbing up Bruce Banner)
Symbiote Spider-Man: Crossroads#3, p14, pan2 (ripped apart by Norn Stone-empowered Hulk)
Devil Dinosaur#2, p12, pan4 (huge insects; Moon Boy [background])

Appearances:
Devil Dinosaur#2 (May, 1978) - Jack Kirby (writer/pencils/editor), Mike Royer (inks/letters), Petra Goldberg (colors), Archie Goodwin (consulting editor)
Symbiote Spider-Man: Crossroads#3 (November, 2021) - Peter David (writer), Greg Land (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Frank D'Armata (colors), Joe Sabino (letters), Danny Khazem (editor)

First posted: 12/10/2003
Last updated: 10/05/2025

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