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They tried to cancel it way more than once.
The first time was at #17 - adistribution deal at major retailers fell through so they were going to nuke the whole MC2 line, but fan outcry kept Mayday alive.
The second time was at #50. There was fan outcry again, but editorial told Defalco that the series could only continue if he swapped from his monster-of-the-week with subplots done-in-one style for the standard 'made-for-trade' arcs. To keep things going they threw out a filler issue that for 51 by an unrelated team and story.
The third time was #100 when they planned to nuke the whole setting again with the 'Last Planet Standing' event mini-seroes. Defalco hinted to this in interviews. Cue outcry. Marvel says she gets one more series called Amazing Spider-Girl but it will be cancelled after #30, no exceptions.
Amazing Spider-Girl #30 rolls around. Subplots havent been dealt with and readership is the same size as ever (the character always sold around 10k - low, but unbelievably stable). The book is finally cancelled, but Marvel says Defalco can have a backup in some Spider-Man anthology books.
The first anthology (Spider-Man Family or Web of Spider-Man, I can't remember which and it doesn't matter) gets cancelled after 8 issues.
The second anthology also gets shitcanned after 8 issues. The stories from the anthology books were also sold digitally as 'Spectacular Spider-Girl'. Plot still hasn't wrapped.
Marvel says he gets a 4-issue mini-series to wrap it all up called Spectacular Spider-Girl. It solves all but one major plot-point.
Series ends on a 'The End' one-shot.
In total Marvel tried to kill the series over 6 fucking times.
Spider-Girl was replaced as a series the next month by a rebranded Arana series also called Spider-Girl. This was the reason Marvel wanted to nuke the series for many years, to have all Spider books in the same setting.
That title died in 8 issues. Plot wrapped in Spider-Island 3-issue mini. Kek.
