--- title: 6-Year-Old SpiderMable: Hero For A Day description: When Mable learned that Edmonton Oilers’ captain Andrew Ference had been kidnapped, she wasted no time transforming into SpiderMabel. canonical: https://time.com/4053661/spider-mable-superhero-for-the-day/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-29T15:21:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:20.575Z og:title: 6-Year-Old With Cancer Becomes Superhero for the Day og:description: It's your friendly neighborhood SpiderMable og:url: https://time.com/4053661/spider-mable-superhero-for-the-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 6-Year-Old With Cancer Becomes Superhero for the Day twitter:description: It's your friendly neighborhood SpiderMable twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 6-Year-Old With Cancer Becomes Superhero for a Day > Sponsored content. 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[The Children’s Wish Foundation](http://www.childrenswish.ca/) and the city of Edmonton, Alberta, decided to join forces to fulfill Mable’s dream of teaming up with her favorite superhero for a day. The little girl woke up on Monday morning to an Action 7 “newscast’ that Ference was missing and in peril. She quickly suited up into her SpiderMable costume to save the beloved hockey player. SpiderMable met with Mayor Don Iveson and several other officials to learn more about the masked villain threatening her city and to help solve the crime. Her spidey sense eventually led her to the [Edmonton Valley Zoo](http://www.edmonton.ca/attractions%5Fevents/edmonton-valley-zoo.aspx) where she rescued Ference from the evil clutches of Mysterio using her spider string. > [](https://twitter.com/BreannaCTV/status/648608305024139264) The Oilers captain was extremely grateful for the mini superhero’s help. He took to Twitter to thank Mable. “What a day! Thank you for saving me [#**SpiderMable**](https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpiderMable?src=hash)! That Mysterio is one bad dude. You are a real superhero!” he tweeted. > [](https://twitter.com/Ferknuckle/status/648622762894868480) Of course, it was all in a day’s work for the young Mable. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4053661/spider-mable-superhero-for-the-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4053661/spider-mable-superhero-for-the-day/"},"headline":"6-Year-Old With Cancer Becomes Superhero for a Day","datePublished":"2015-09-29T15:21:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:20.575Z","description":"It's your friendly neighborhood SpiderMable","url":"https://time.com/4053661/spider-mable-superhero-for-the-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Children","viral","Cancer","kids","sick","Superheroes","Superhero","leukemia"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4053661/spider-mable-superhero-for-the-day/","name":"6-Year-Old With Cancer Becomes Superhero for a Day"}}]}] ```