Spider-Man’s stocking was hung by the chimney with care…

…in the hopes that subscriptions soon would be there. (Though hopefully not delivered by Santa Kingpin.)

I don’t know what it says about my powers of perception that it took me far too long to figure out what it was about this ad that made it Marvelish. Then I saw the stocking. Ah. Yes.

This begs the question: Does anyone make Spider-Man socks like what you see up there? Answer: If they do, they’re not the easiest things to track down. (Admission: I didn’t exactly go on an Indiana Jones-esque quest to find them.) Corollary: If I could find some, there’s a good chance I’d buy them. If you teamed Spider-Man socks with a dancing-chick wallet, you’d be an unstoppable fashion-plate Lothario machine.