Created by Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, writer Fiona Avery, and artist Mark Brooks,[1] the character made her first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #1 (August 2004).

Corazón was the first Marvel character to adopt the identity Araña (Spider), before becoming Spider-Girl (Young Allies #5, October 2010).

Anya Corazon was created by Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, writer Fiona Avery, and artist Mark Brooks, and is based on ideas J. Michael Straczynski used in his run on The Amazing Spider-Man.

[2] After her storyline ended in Amazing Fantasy #6, she appeared in her own twelve issue series Araña: The Heart of the Spider, starting in March 2005 as part of Marvel Next.

The character next appeared in the Ms. Marvel title as a recruit for service as a licensed superhero under the Superhuman Registration Act.

[6] Anya was one of the main characters in Marvel's Spider-Verse event, which led to a spinoff miniseries in Secret Wars, which she was also included in.

[7] On her first day at Milton Summers High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Anya is friends with classmate Lynn Sakura.

In place of equipment like web-shooters or spider tracers, Anya created her own modified bolas out of discs that are about the size of her palm and have eight red legs able to grip objects.

[9] The Sisterhood of the Wasp recruits Jaime Jade, a Mexican crime lord who has mental abilities that allows to hypnotize other people and was involved in the death of her mother Sofia Corazon.

Amun arrives too late, but Anya reluctantly dives into the water to save Jade but the crime lord has already escaped.

[11] The pro-registration heroes have tasked Carol Danvers and Wonder Man to find Anya, convince her to register, and train her.

Anya accompanies the two to Stark Tower, where she forces herself into a meeting with Iron Man, and then on a mission to capture the Shroud and Arachne.

[12] A strike team led by Ms. Marvel and Wonder Man arrives at the home of Arachne's parents to take into custody.

[14] Before a battle with Doomsday Man, Ms. Marvel asks Anya to go get help if she fails to make contact by a certain time.

She is later captured by Chilean soldiers who deliver her to the Puppet Master; she is added to a collection of female heroes that includes Stature, Dusk, Tigra, and Silverclaw.

Anya is captured along with Julia and Madame Web while Kaine (who was dressed as Spider-Man) is sacrificed as part of a ritual for Kraven the Hunter's resurrection.

Although information Araña obtained from her father turned out to be a trap, the pair nonetheless bonded, and shared secret identities.

The Bastards link up a video feed of the bound and gagged heroines across televisions, computers, and cell phones throughout New York City, with the intent of executing the girls to build up reputations.

With their captors distracted, Anya and Rikki escape and ultimately defeat the Bastards once the rest of the Young Allies arrive.

[24] Anya accepts the "Spider-Girl" moniker[24] and begins operating solo, although she frequently interacts with her Young Allies teammates such as Rikki as well as Spider-Man and the Invisible Woman.

Spider-Girl eventually is able to stop the Raven Society organization that was behind Gil's death,[28] and the intervening time shows that she made friends with Rocky Flint[27] and fought Ana Kravinoff,[29] the new Hobgoblin,[30] and Screwball.

[32] During the Fear Itself storyline, Anya, X-23, Amadeus Cho, Power Man, and Thunderstrike are teleported to a station in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where they fight samurai Shark Men.

[41] Her abilities were indispensable for the Spider-Army to discover the Inheritors' plan, as her powers and relationship with the Spider Society allowed her to read their scrolls.

[42] After the Inheritors were defeated and exiled to an irradiated Earth, the spider totems proceeded to return to their respective realities.

[48] As Araña, she originally possessed superhuman strength (able to lift three tons), speed, stamina, reflexes/reactions, agility, coordination, balance, and endurance.

Anya invented spider-like grappling hooks, which she uses to swing from buildings and as whip-like weapons, though she has found these to be harder to use since losing her abilities.

[6][37] In the line cue for Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure, Anya’s locker can be spotted among others, including Peter Parker, Cassie Lang, and America Chavez.

Due to the Marvel Universe's method for resolving time travel paradoxes, this story takes place in an alternate timeline.

In the MC2 continuity, an adult version of Anya Corazon as Araña, still accompanied by Miguel (sometimes being referred to as Michael), tests Spider-Girl, then covers for her, posing as a fake seer to throw the Hobgoblin off track when he tries to find her weaknesses.

As the gang war concludes, Black Tarantula agrees to give up his title as the current Kingpin of Crime and decides to marry Anya.