Norman I. Platnick, educator and friendly neighborhood spider-man. A. At the opening of the AMNH Spiders Alive! exhibition with The Amazing Spider-Man actor, Andrew Garfield (2012). B. At the AMNH with Spiderman actor, Tobey Maguire (2007). C, D. At home in Bay Shore, NY, with his son, Will Platnick (1983, C; 1985, D). E. At the AMNH Spiders Alive! exhibition with spidermen from the Broadway show, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark (2012). F. Live spider display at Brook Avenue Elementary School, Bay Shore, NY, where his son, Will, attended school and his wife, Nancy Platnick, worked for 20 years (2008). G. Beside spider artwork (2011). H. With his daughter-in-law, Rebecca Ehrlich, sitting on model trapdoor spider, Cyclocosmia Ausserer, 1871, at the AMNH Spiders Alive! exhibition (2012). Photos ©: R. Mickens/AMNH (A, E); D. Finnin/AMNH (B); N. I. Platnick/W. D. Platnick (C, D, F, H).