For bringing up the spiderman musical, you get a video:
http://www.youtube.com/v/1rYvUVTMlnIAs to Aquaman, Peter David turned him into a badass in 1994. It was a very well written and occasionally very funny series. These days his history has been rebooted (along with all the other DC super-heroes) and he's back to having two hands and wearing an orange shirt. But they kept the part about him being a badass.
And while I'm talking about superhero trivia - a while back I linked The Tick to the Smile Time puppet episode of Angel. Because the creator of the Tick wrote that episode.