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I wanna say Erik Larsen was the first artist to change the blue in the classic Spidey costume to black... or at least made it a darker, near black...

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I thought it was a similar situation as with Spider-Man 2099 where blue was used as an accent for the black section and people just thought that it was blue, so that stuck with later incarnations. 

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Kind of like when Neversoft adapted Venom for the PS1 Spidey games.

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