Tristan Mathews, Guinness World Records Spider-Man memorabilia tour

Hi, I'm Tristan Matthews, I'm from Los Angeles, California, and I am the Guinness World Record

holder for the largest collection of Spider-Man memorabilia. The first piece I want to show you is right over here

It's a page from Marvel Team-Up 67. It's John Byrne artwork. It features Spider-Man and Tigera teaming up against Kraven Hunter, who is definitely

one of my favorite Spider-Man foes. The page was given to me by my friend Renee

Her husband was Greg Karras. Greg passed away about two years ago, so the piece holds a little bit of special meaning

aside from being just a really kick-ass piece of Spider-Man artwork, and it also reminds

me daily of my friend Greg, and it's just sort of a sweet thing to keep in mind

Another thing that has a lot of significance to me is the certificate that UFineFolks awarded

me with for the largest collection of Spider-Man memorabilia. I have it here on display, along with a picture of me from the night that I did the attempt

as well as a sort of Oscar-type statue I purchased for myself to commemorate the event

And then I have this pretty cool artwork drawn by an artist named Josh Lynch, who commemorated

the moment of receiving the award. He has a great blog called A Spider a Day, where he sort of does different things than

the current zeitgeist, so when Mr. Rogers was getting a movie, he did Spider-Man as

Mr. Rogers, Spider-Man as Mr. T, there's Spider-Man playing pool with Kraven the Hunter, Spider-Man

as Han Solo. It's pretty cool to get this, so I like to keep it in with the same memorabilia that

reminds me of everything we're talking about right now. Has everybody tried a wheat cake yet

You're so good! Oh, I'm so glad! I used to be called Spider-Man in high school, not for the reason that you think, I didn't

have any superpowers or was good at anything, it was just because my uncle was murdered

The superpowers are not what they're all packed up to be, ladies don't respect it

Like I have the power to climb walls and snake people, women call me clingy

I have a friend, Chris, who actually works for Marvel Studios and he worked on Captain

America Civil War, which introduced Spider-Man into the MCU movies, and he gave me this pretty

cool coin. So again, on its own, it is what it is, but it carries that extra meaning of reminding

me of my friend Chris. My favorite one that Rich has given me, I may have seen before, which is this Mego Spider-Man

which is sort of a famous, you know Adult Swim did a show years ago, Robot Chicken

where they used that style Mego doll. I have Spider-Man reading a little miniature Daily Bugle, hanging out with Mjolnir, Thor's

hammer, and then with his buddy Captain America, and what else would Captain America, most

American man eat, but cheeseburgers and milkshakes. The biggest gift that I've received and sort of the thing that has the most meaning and

is the final item that I want to show you, is my copy of Amazing Spider-Man number one

This was a surprise from a group of friends who all signed this picture frame to the right

of it that also was when they presented it to me. There was no real special meaning behind it, you know, giving the gift

My friend Nate had spoken to a local comic shop here in Los Angeles, and they had come

into a copy. My friend Nate got another group of people sort of coordinated, including Rich again

whose name is Cameron, who's given me the bulk of the gifts that I have with Spider-Man

And just one night at a brewery just surprised me with it, and it was the last comic that

I needed to complete my run of Every Amazing Spider-Man, which also completed everything

from every spectacular, amazing, sensational, adjective-less, friendly neighborhood, superior, ultimate, and, you know, so on and so forth

Thanks for coming. Tristan, would you like to say one more word? No

No. Thank you so much for hanging out with me and checking it out

I hope that you enjoyed watching this video as much as I enjoyed showing you everything

And, um, Excelsior