BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — In August 1962, Marvel Comics published the story of an awkward, antisocial teenager – Spiderman. August 1 marks National Spiderman Day (due to the comics publication in August).
So what is the webcrawler’s connection to water polo? Video games.
In the 2018 computer-animated superhero film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a fictitious water polo game is advertised in New York City’s Times Square – EA Sports Water Polo ’19. The player is unrecognizable, but the sport is still mentioned in the Academy Award winning film that grossed over $375 million worldwide.