The character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #1 (April 2014) as a faceless cameo and was created by writer Dan Slott and artist Humberto Ramos. She made several other faceless appearances throughout the volume's first story arc, before making her full debut in The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #4 (July 2014), as part of a tie-in to the "Original Sin" storyline. An ongoing title featuring Silk started publishing in February 2015, with scripts by Supernatural writer Robbie Thompson and art by Stacey Lee. Silk volume 1 came to an end during the Secret Wars event. After the event, a second volume began which concluded with issue #19.
Silk was part of the new Agents of Atlas team, which debuted in a War of the Realms tie-in and later got their own five-issue limited series.
A fourth Silk series was released in January 2022 by writer Emily Kim with Takeshi Miyazawa returning as artist.
A fifth Silk series was released in May 2023 with writer Emily Kim returning and Ig Guara as artist.
Fictional character biography
Cindy Moon is the daughter of Albert Moon Sr. and Nari Moon and the sister of Albert Moon Jr.. In this story's universe, the same radioactive spider which bit Peter Parker also bites Cindy Moon and grants her similar powers to those of Spider-Man. Cindy and her family are approached by Ezekiel Sims who initially trains Cindy in how to use her newfound abilities. After six years, however, Sims decides the only way to protect Cindy and others like her from the supervillian Morlun is to imprison them within a secure facility for their own "protection."
After seven years locked inside the facility, during which time Morlun has died, Spider-Man arrives to free everyone inside, including Cindy. It is after leaving the facility with Spider-Man that Cindy creates a costume for herself out of her own webbing and adopts the name Silk. After this event, Silk and Spider-Man begin working together to investigate whether or not Morlun is truly dead and the pair also begin experiencing feelings of intense sexual attraction whenever they are in proximity of each other.
Many of Silk's early story-arcs center around her desire to find her family, who she was separated from and lost contact with during her years imprisoned by Sims.
In several comic arcs, the character of Silk joins other Asian American superheroes to celebrate Asian American heritage and/or to explore superhero stories set in Asian countries and communities around the world.
Powers and abilities
Cindy gained her superpowers when she was bitten by the same radioactive spider as Peter Parker, possessing similar abilities as his, including superhuman strength, speed, durability, reflexes, and equilibrium, the ability to cling to most surfaces, and the ability to shoot webs out of her fingertips. On their first meeting, Peter observed that she was faster than him, though not as strong. Her "Spider Sense" is called "Silk Sense" and is far stronger than Peter's. Additionally, she has an eidetic memory.
Casey – A kid and former member of Black Cat's Gang who sided with the Goblin Nation and was mutated by the Goblin Formula.
Emmie – A kid who joined the Goblin Nation and was mutated by the Goblin Formula.
Reception
Accolades
In 2017, Gizmodo ranked Cindy Moon 3rd in their "Greatest Spider-Women of All Time" list.
In 2017, Screen Rant ranked Cindy Moon 4th in their "28 Marvel Superheroes With Spider-Powers" list and 13th in their "Every Member Of The Spider-Man Family" list.
In 2020, Scary Mommy included Cindy Moon in their "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic" list.
In 2020, CBR.com ranked Cindy Moon 6th in their "Marvel Comics: 10 Most Powerful Members Of Agents Of Atlas" list.
In 2022, Screen Rant ranked Cindy Moon (from Earth-65) 7th in their "10 Most Powerful Silk Villains In Marvel Comics" list.
In the crossover event Spider-Women, it is revealed that Cindy Moon of the Spider-Gwen universe (Earth-65) is the head of a nefarious spy organization called S.I.L.K., the romantic partner of Matt Murdock / Kingpin, and the main antagonist of the event. Cindy of Earth-65 almost had a similar spider bite accident to the main one, but a teacher swatted it with a newspaper. Dissatisfied with her life, she joins S.H.I.E.L.D. as a researcher in spiders. There was a spider-related incident in which Jesse Drew was nearly killed, but Cindy's research saves his life and gives him spider powers, with Agent Drew making it up to Cindy by becoming one of her top agents. She eventually recovers the altered spider back from S.H.I.E.L.D. with Jesse's help and releases it into the open, where it bit Gwen Stacy and led to her becoming Earth-65's Spider-Woman. During the Spider-Women event, Jesse steals Gwen's interdimensional teleporter and travels to Earth-616, where she steals a large amount of technology while framing her 616 counterpart. When she encounters Gwen and her counterpart, she uses her technology to take away Gwen's powers. When she returns to her hideout after Jesse's betrayal, she is ambushed by Jessica Drew, Gwen, and her counterpart and is defeated. S.H.I.E.L.D. locks her up for her crimes and her counterpart teases her by sending her a care package with all the things she had in her bunker.
The Earth-616 Silk had managed to meet the parents of her Earth-65 counterpart.
In the manga Spider-Man: Fake Red, Cindy Moon / Silk appears as the best friend/partner of the missing Peter Parker, on whom she nurses an intensecrush. On confronting Yu Onomae for using Peter's suit to fill in for him as Spider-Man on finding it in an alley, initially suspecting him as having something to do with his disappearance, Cindy guides Yu on his journey, continuing to look for Peter alone.
Web Weaver
On Earth-71490, the home of Web Weaver, Cindy's brother Albert is this universe's Silk. He and Web Weaver have a flirtatious rivalry, unaware that they used to date in their civilian identities. It is eventually revealed that he and Cindy were infected by a symbiote from an alternate dimension that killed their parents known as V-Star and were kept and studied in a bunker for nearly a decade. Due to the symbiote nearly killing Albert, Cindy absorbed more of it until her body and mind fully merged with it. She disappeared when the scientists tried to use her to open a portal to the dimension where the symbiote came from, and Albert was released shortly afterward as his body metabolized the symbiote within him, granting him superhuman abilities. Cindy eventually returns to her home as V-Star and begins killing the scientists responsible for her and her brother's condition. Albert tries to convince Web Weaver to stand down and let her carry it out, but they are forced to intervene when V-Star nearly targets S.H.I.E.L.D., and he manages to get through to Cindy and convinces her to leave.
↑Greg Pak(w),Mahmud Asrar(p),Mahmud Asrar(i),Nolan Woodard(col),VC's Cory Petit(let),Mark Paniccia(ed)."Big Apple Showdown: Part 2"The Totally Awesome Hulk,vol.1,no.16(8 February 2017).United States:Marvel Comics.
↑Robbie Thompson,Jason Latour, Dennis Hopeless(w),Vanesa Del Ray,Tana Ford, Joëlle Jones, et al(p),Vanesa Del Ray,Tana Ford, Lorenzo Ruggiero, et al(i),Jordie Bellaire, Rico Renzi, et al(col),Travis Lanham, Clayton Cowles(let). Spider-Women(July 26, 2016).New York, NY:Marvel Entertainment,ISBN978-1-302-90093-9.
↑Robbie Thompson(w),Tana Ford(a),Ian Herring(col),Travis Lanham(let). Silk,vol.2,no.7(June 2016).Marvel Comics.
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