**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: @HISTORY_UNCOVERED**
**EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Memos Reveal "Spider-Man Noir" Was Real WWII Ops, Not Just Comic Book Fantasy**
*Hollywood wants you to believe "Spider-Man Noir" is fiction. Our investigation suggests the trench coat and fedora were a cover for the most classified black-ops program of the 1940s: Project Arachne.*
**WHO BENEFITS?** Disney+ gets a gritty "reboot." The military-industrial complex gets to scrub history. But we found the evidence.
*Decrypted OSS files recovered from a decommissioned NSA server show a Department of War report dated October 12, 1943, titled "Costume-Based Psychological Warfare: Human-Arthropod Integration."*
**The key findings:** A bioweapons division at Fort Detrick attempted to splice *Latrodectus mactans* (black widow) DNA with a volunteer—a Depression-era boxer with "unstable vitals"—to create a one-man terror cell for the European theater.
**"Project Arachne"** was deemed a "partial success." The subject survived, displayed "extreme tensile strength," and was deployed to occupied France in 1944. Official records say he "disappeared" in the Ardennes. Unofficial records (obtained via FOIA loophole) suggest he was last seen at the Biltmore Estate in 1947, wearing a fedora and talking to a man named "Howard."
**The cover-up:** Stan Lee's 1962 *Amazing Fantasy #15* "coincidentally" introduced the spider-bite origin. A 2009 *Spider-Man Noir* comic then "reimagined" the 1930s. Now, a 2025 live-action series is in production. Coincidence? Or are they using "fiction" to bury