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I mean heck, in the original Exorcist movie Max von Sydow was only 44 when he played the 72 year-old Father Merrin but folks were certain he was actually and old man in real life.
 
Of course you can make the math work, you can also make the math work and have May be younger than Peter but her being in her mid 40s to maybe early 50s is the more likely scenario. And oc course those characters were crated in 1962, so Peter would have been born shortly after WW2. Back then people had children much earlier than today, May being in her 30s would have been believable and no reader would have questioned that.

You said May should be in her 40s, I'm just pointing out that it's perfectly reasonable that she's much older. I think making May younger in Holland's movies was a good idea myself.
 
You said May should be in her 40s, I'm just pointing out that it's perfectly reasonable that she's much older.
Realistically she should be (more or less, 50s is fine too). To make her significantly older sou had to make several assumptions like Richard being much older than Mary and Ben being much older than Richard. That is of course possible, everything is possible but we should ask ourselves how likely it is.

The weirdest thing is that if the comic wanted Peter to live with an old relative, why not make May his grandmother? How old and frail she was was a constant plot point, so it wasn't just that she was drawn older than she was supposed to be.

I think making May younger in Holland's movies was a good idea myself.
And she wasn't even that young, Marisa Tomei was already in her 50s when Homecoming was filmed.
 
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