Spider-Man Noir saw 32x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Spider-Man Noir, often referred to as Spider-Noir, Spider-Man, The Spider or simply Noir, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by David Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky as part of the Marvel Noir universe (Earth-90214), this alternate version of Spider-Man is a reinterpretation of the character inspired by film noir who emerges in New York during the Great Depression.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 8 edits to this article on 2026-05-28, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Television
• Powers and abilities

What changed that day

The article grew by 413 characters that day. The largest single addition was 302 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-28 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

Rose at the same time

1 other article that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

• Spider-Noir 2026 American superhero series by Oren Uziel

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.