Mo' Spider-Man (Patreon)

So speaking of my Spider-Man pitch, I was thinking. I don't have a problem with diversity, except when it is a detriment to the story (it seems like a lot of people see the STORY as a detriment to a diversity deliverance system). So I was thinking of minority characters you could use who could be in keeping with the sixtiesish, high school era Spider-Man. Admittedly, there weren't too many--although to be fair, Marvel wasn't publishing many comics then, you could count them on one hand just about. But right away, we have Randy Robertson. He'll be introduced a year later, in '67, but obviously he's around before then, so I feel it's an acceptable cheat to have him be a friend of Peter's, someone for him to bounce conversation off of (come to think of, I'm surprised this character wasn't the BFF in Homecoming instead of Ned Leeds, of all people. I know the character was 'really' Ganke, and for some reason--the actor was white and they didn't want to be accused of whitewashing? Maybe?--they just decided to put that in a blender along with the rest of Spidey's mythos...)

Anyway, with some quick Wiki magic, we've got T'Challa, Wyatt Wingfoot, and Bill Foster. That's nothing compared to the seventies, when we start to see characters like Luke Cage, Misty Knight, and Storm, but I feel like it's a pretty decent line-up. No homosexual characters at the time, unless you want to count retcons like Bobby Drake being gay all along (I don't), but I don't know why someone would look for queer representation in a book about Peter and Mary Jane going on a date anyway. And I suppose I could use some minority villains like the Crusher or El Toro, but that would probably be going too obscure.