In new download, Spidey teams with a Top Chef

[February 26, 2011]  PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- When the web-slinger heads out for dinner, danger is always on the menu.

In a new one-shot tale available through Marvel Comics' app and online, Spider-Man teams up with "Top Chef" Eli Kirshtein in a bid to thwart the hallucination-spewing Mysterio who disrupts the wall-crawler's date.

The team-up was born, Marvel said Friday, of a fascination for food shared not just by Kirshtein, but also C.B. Cebulski, the comic publisher's senior vice president of creator and content development.

An avid fan of Twitter, and food, Cebulski and Kirshtein struck up a friendship that led to the latter's appearance in the 11-page digital-only tale that was written by Marc Bernardin and drawn by Mike Henderson.

[Associated Press]

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