Arachnophobia was published by Disney in 1990. Dr. Ross Jennings hates spiders. So when an oversized South American tarantula hitches a ride with a dead body to Jennings’ hometown, things can only get worse. Once in the states, the tarantula mates with a domestic house spider and creates millions of creepy, crawly, lethal offspring, and local townspeople start turning up dead from spider bites. Luckily, Jennings has the help of master exterminator Delbert McClintock (otherwise known as the comic relief) and spider expert Doctor James Atherton to help him fight the six-legged killers. Trouble is, it’s not only insects that are disappearing into spider webs as food—but also cats, birds, and …humans? Can our intrepid exterminators find the spider queen before the plague of spiders overruns the town? Arachnophobia is the comic adaptation of the Hollywood Pictures film.