wallcrawler

plural wallcrawlers · alternative wall-crawler · alternative wall crawler

1. something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces

   This big wallcrawler has remained somewhat obscure, probably due to its indistinct appearance.

   1998, Reptiles, volume 6

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   When DC Comics tweaked Marvel in the 1960s, they almost always did so through Spider-Man: Jerry Lewis became "the Fearless Tarantula" in an issue of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, while a teenage DC hero in the "Legion of Superheroes" serials compared himself, quote favorably, to the webbed wallcrawler.

   2004 September 1, Jordan Raphael with Tom Spurgeon, Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, →ISBN, page 119

   Sandman looked up and saw the masked face of Spider-Man staring down at him. The wallcrawler was leaning against the rear doors of the armored car, apparently having dropped through the hole that Sandman had created.

   2007 March 7, Peter David, Spider-Man 3, New York: Pocket Books, pages 171–172