Peter Porker is an anthropomorphic spider-swine hybrid with super powers proportionate to a spider. He uses his abilities to fight injustice in his native reality and across the multiverse.
Porcine Protector
Born on the cartoonish alternate Earth-8311, the teenaged anthrotoon spider, Peter, lives in the basement of unknown super-genius May Porker, his adoptive aunt. Determined to revolutionize America’s hair care industry, May tests an atomic-powered hair dryer on herself. It zaps her with radioactive energy and she bites Peter before fainting.
The radioactivity mutates Peter into either a pig with the abilities of a spider or a spider with the limitations of a pig—one of the two. He revives May, only to discover she believes Peter to be her nephew and herself an ordinary old woman.
Using his newfound scientific genius inherited by his Aunt’s bite, Peter becomes a new Super Hero: the spectacular Spider-Ham.
Scientific Genius and Web-Slinger
Spider-Ham is a scientific genius and creates mechanical web-spinners to replace his now lost natural spinners.
He has super-strength, enabling him to lift around ten tons and leap great distances in a single bound. His precognitive spider sense warns him of approaching danger, and he can stick to and climb up walls. His wrist-mounted web shooters create ropes for swinging, or web-sheets to restrain people; he has made web-sculpted objects, like boats, in certain emergencies.
Sometimes he carries a “pigspider” backpack that contains a change of clothes while in costume. Like many other anthrotoons, he can survive great physical traumas (such as being pressed flat) with little more than aches and pains. Porker is also a photographer, and uses his shutterbug skills to make money at The Daily Beagle.
Direct Opposition
The Quackverian ruler Ducktor Doom is a recurring menace for Spider-Ham. He attempts to conquer the world by creating a living army of super vegetables, but Spider-Ham foils his plans.
Other notable villains that Spider-Ham faces include the Bullfrog, Buzzard, Hog-zilla, Kingpig, Masked Marauder, Pinhead, Raven the Hunter, the Swinester Six and the Sinister Six.
The Inheritors, a race of spider-eating beings from Earth-001, hunt down and kill Spider-Ham’s Multiversal counterparts, AKA Spider Totems. He comes up against them with the Spider-Army and together, they defeat them.
Adoptive Family and Super Friends
Aunt May Porker is Peter’s adoptive aunt and in a hair care experiment, she zaps herself with radioactive energy and bites her nephew, transforming him into Spider-Ham.
Mary Jane Waterbuffalo is Spider-Ham’s girlfriend and later his wife. She is supportive of his dual-identity and even helps him out of tough scraps.
Occasionally, Spider-Ham fights alongside Captain Americat, Iron Mouse, Deerdevil, Goose Rider, and the Fantastic Fur in his native reality. Though he finds himself often transported to other realities and allies with other Spider Totems across the multiverse, and Earth-616 heroes.
Spider-Ham joins the Spider-Army to face off and defeat the Inheritors. In addition to fighting them off, he and Old Man Spider track down and recruit Peni Parker, AKA SP//dr, another Spider-Totem living on Earth-14512, to join them in the battle for all their lives.