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THE MAKING OF SPIDER-MAN

“HE WAS SPIDERMAN, SO HE HAD TO BE ABLE TO SAVE HIMSELF! AND IT WASN’T HARD TO HAVE HIM SHOOT HIS WEB AND SNAG THE BUILDING”
LAURA NIKOLICH

Female programmers were even rarer, and so recruiters for Parker Brothers were sceptical when they met the young graduate at a job fair. “They asked me if I knew how to do real-time assembly-level programming, and I said: ‘Well, yeah,’” Laura remembers. “They were amazed, and they scheduled me for an interview, and I got the job. My friends

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