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Spider-Man

Spider-Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. He has been featured in comic books, television shows, films, video games, novels, and plays. Spider-Man's secret identity is Peter Parker, a teenage high school student and an orphan raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City after his parents Richard and Mary Parker died in a plane crash. Lee and Ditko had the character deal with the struggles of adolescence and financial issues and gave him many supporting characters, such as Flash Thompson, J. Jonah Jameson, and Harry Osborn; romantic interests Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson, and the Black Cat; and his enemies such as the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and Venom. In his origin story, Spider-Man gets his superhuman spider-powers and abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider; these include clinging to surfaces and ceilings, superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, stamina, and detecting danger with his precognition ability called "spider-sense." He also builds wrist-mounted "web-shooter" devices that shoot artificial spider-webs of his own design that were meant to be used for fighting his enemies and web-swinging across the city. After the personal tragedy of his late Uncle Ben who is killed by a thief whom Peter failed to bring himself to stop, Peter began using his spider-powers to fight against crime as Spider-Man.

Spider-Man
Textless cover of Web of Spider-Man #129.1 (October 2012).
Art by Mike McKone and Morry Hollowell.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceAmazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962)
Created byStan Lee
Steve Ditko
In-story information
Alter egoPeter Benjamin Parker
SpeciesHuman mutate
Place of originQueens, New York City
Team affiliations
Partnerships
Notable aliasesSpidey, The Amazing Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Webhead, Webslinger, Wall-Crawler, Ricochet,[1] Dusk,[2] Prodigy,[3] Hornet,[4] Ben Reilly,[5]
Scarlet Spider,[6] and Captain Universe[7]
Abilities
  • Superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, stamina, durability, coordination, and balance
  • Wall-climbing on the surfaces and ceilings
  • Precognitive spider-sense
  • Genius-level intellect
  • Proficient scientist and engineer
  • Utilizes wrist-mounted web-shooters
  • Accelerated healing
  • Master acrobat
  • Master martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant

When Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the main character. The Spider-Man series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, a high school student from Queens, New York, as Spider-Man's secret identity, whose "self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness" were issues to which young readers could relate.[8] While Spider-Man had all the makings of a sidekick, unlike previous teen heroes such as Bucky and Robin, Spider-Man had no superhero mentor like Captain America and Batman; he thus had to learn for himself that "with great power comes great responsibility" — a line included in a text box in the final panel of the first Spider-Man's origin story but later retroactively attributed to his guardian, his late Uncle Ben Parker.

Marvel has featured Spider-Man as the title character and main protagonist in several comic book series, the first and longest-lasting of which is The Amazing Spider-Man. Over the years, the Peter Parker character developed from a shy, nerdy New York City high school student to a troubled but outgoing college student, to a married high school teacher to, in the late 2000s, a single freelance photographer. In the 2000s, he joins the Avengers. Doctor Octopus also took on the identity for a story arc spanning 2012–2014, following a body swap plot in which Peter appears to die.[9] Marvel has also published books featuring alternate versions of Spider-Man, including Spider-Man 2099, which features the adventures of Miguel O'Hara, the Spider-Man of the future; Ultimate Spider-Man, which features the adventures of a teenaged Peter Parker in an alternate universe; and Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, which depicts the teenager Miles Morales, who takes up the mantle of Spider-Man after Ultimate Peter Parker's supposed death. Miles later became a superhero in his own right and was brought into mainstream continuity, where he sometimes works alongside Peter.

Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes.[10] He has appeared in countless forms of media, including several animated TV series, a live-action television series, syndicated newspaper comic strips, and multiple series of films. The character was first portrayed in live-action by Danny Seagren in Spidey Super Stories, a The Electric Company skit which ran from 1974 to 1977.[11] In films, Spider-Man has been portrayed by actors Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield,[12] and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Tom Holland. He was voiced by Chris Pine and Jake Johnson in the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), with Johnson reprising the role in its sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Reeve Carney starred originally as Spider-Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.[13] Spider-Man has been well-received as a superhero and comic book character, and he is often ranked as one of the most popular and iconic comic book characters of all time and one of the most popular characters in all fiction.

Publication history

Creation and development

 
Richard Wentworth a.k.a. the Spider in the pulp magazine The Spider. Stan Lee stated that it was the name of this character that inspired him to create a character that would become Spider-Man.[14]

In 1962, with the success of the Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee was casting about for a new superhero idea. He said the idea for Spider-Man arose from a surge in teenage demand for comic books, and the desire to create a character with whom teens could identify.[15]: 1  As with Fantastic Four, Lee saw Spider-Man as an opportunity to "get out of his system" what he felt was missing in comic books.[16] In his autobiography, Lee cites the non-superhuman pulp magazine crime fighter the Spider as a great influence,[14]: 130 [17] and in a multitude of print and video interviews, Lee stated he was further inspired by seeing a spider climb up a wall—adding in his autobiography that he has told that story so often he has become unsure of whether or not this is true.[note 1][page needed] Besides the name, the Spider was wanted by both the law and the criminal underworld (a defining theme of Spider-Man's early years), and had through years of ceaseless struggle developed a "sixth sense" which warns him of danger, the apparent inspiration for Spider-Man's "spider-sense".[17] Although at the time teenage superheroes were usually given names ending with "boy", Lee says he chose "Spider-Man" because he wanted the character to age as the series progressed, and felt the name "Spider-Boy" would have made the character sound inferior to other superheroes.[18] He also decided to insert a hyphen in the name, as he felt it looked too similar to Superman, another superhero with a red and blue costume that starts with an "S" and ends with "man"[19] (although artist Steve Ditko intended the character to have an orange and purple costume).[20] At that time Lee had to get only the consent of Marvel publisher Martin Goodman for the character's approval. In a 1986 interview, Lee described in detail his arguments to overcome Goodman's objections.[note 2] Goodman eventually agreed to a Spider-Man tryout in what Lee in numerous interviews recalled as what would be the final issue of the science-fiction and supernatural anthology series Amazing Adult Fantasy, which was renamed Amazing Fantasy for that single issue, #15 (cover-dated August 1962, on sale June 5, 1962).[21] In particular, Lee stated that the fact that it had already been decided that Amazing Fantasy would be canceled after issue #15 was the only reason Goodman allowed him to use Spider-Man.[18] While this was indeed the final issue, its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing and that "The Spiderman [sic] ... will appear every month in Amazing."[21][22]

Regardless, Lee received Goodman's approval for the name Spider-Man and the "ordinary teen" concept and approached artist Jack Kirby. As comics historian Greg Theakston recounts, Kirby told Lee about an unpublished character on which he had collaborated with Joe Simon in the 1950s, in which an orphaned boy living with an old couple finds a magic ring that granted him superhuman powers. Lee and Kirby "immediately sat down for a story conference", Theakston writes, and Lee afterward directed Kirby to flesh out the character and draw some pages.[23] Steve Ditko would be the inker.[note 3] When Kirby showed Lee the first six pages, Lee recalled, "I hated the way he was doing it! Not that he did it badly—it just wasn't the character I wanted; it was too heroic".[23]: 12  Lee turned to Ditko, who developed a visual style Lee found satisfactory. Ditko recalled:

One of the first things I did was to work up a costume. A vital, visual part of the character. I had to know how he looked ... before I did any breakdowns. For example: A clinging power so he wouldn't have hard shoes or boots, a hidden wrist-shooter versus a web gun and holster, etc. ... I wasn't sure Stan would like the idea of covering the character's face but I did it because it hid an obviously boyish face. It would also add mystery to the character....[24]

Although the interior artwork was by Ditko alone, Lee rejected Ditko's cover art and commissioned Kirby to pencil a cover that Ditko inked.[21] As Lee explained in 2010, "I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jack's covers."[25]

In an early recollection of the character's creation, Ditko described his and Lee's contributions in a mail interview with Gary Martin published in Comic Fan #2 (Summer 1965): "Stan Lee thought the name up. I did costume, web gimmick on wrist & spider signal."[26] At the time, Ditko shared a Manhattan studio with noted fetish artist Eric Stanton, an art-school classmate who, in a 1988 interview with Theakston, recalled that although his contribution to Spider-Man was "almost nil", he and Ditko had "worked on storyboards together and I added a few ideas. But the whole thing was created by Steve on his own... I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands."[23]: 14  Ditko claimed in a rare interview with Jonathan Ross that the costume was initially envisioned with an orange and purple color scheme rather than the more famous red and blue.[27]

 
Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) first introduced the character. It was a gateway to commercial success for the superhero and inspired the launch of The Amazing Spider-Man comic book. Cover art by penciller Jack Kirby and inker Steve Ditko

Kirby disputed Lee's version of the story and claimed Lee had minimal involvement in the character's creation. According to Kirby, the idea for Spider-Man had originated with Kirby and Joe Simon, who in the 1950s had developed a character called the Silver Spider for the Crestwood Publications comic Black Magic, who was subsequently not used.[note 4] Simon, in his 1990 autobiography, disputed Kirby's account, asserting that Black Magic was not a factor, and that he (Simon) devised the name "Spider-Man" (later changed to "The Silver Spider"), while Kirby outlined the character's story and powers. Simon later elaborated that his and Kirby's character conception became the basis for Simon's Archie Comics superhero the Fly.[28] Artist Steve Ditko stated that Lee liked the name Hawkman from DC Comics, and that "Spider-Man" was an outgrowth of that interest.[24]

Simon concurred that Kirby had shown the original Spider-Man version to Lee, who liked the idea and assigned Kirby to draw sample pages of the new character but disliked the results—in Simon's description, "Captain America with cobwebs".[note 5] Writer Mark Evanier notes that Lee's reasoning that Kirby's character was too heroic seems unlikely—Kirby still drew the covers for Amazing Fantasy #15 and the first issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. Evanier also disputes Kirby's given reason that he was "too busy" to draw Spider-Man in addition to his other duties since Kirby was, said Evanier, "always busy".[29]: 127  Neither Lee's nor Kirby's explanation explains why key story elements like the magic ring were dropped; Evanier states that the most plausible explanation for the sudden change was that Goodman, or one of his assistants, decided that Spider-Man, as drawn and envisioned by Kirby, was too similar to the Fly.[29]: 127 

Author and Ditko scholar Blake Bell writes that it was Ditko who noted the similarities to the Fly. Ditko recalled that "Stan called Jack about the Fly", adding that "[d]ays later, Stan told me I would be penciling the story panel breakdowns from Stan's synopsis." It was at this point that the nature of the strip changed. "Out went the magic ring, adult Spider-Man and whatever legend ideas that Spider-Man story would have contained." Lee gave Ditko the premise of a teenager bitten by a spider and developing powers, a premise Ditko would expand upon to the point he became what Bell describes as "the first work for hire artist of his generation to create and control the narrative arc of his series". On the issue of the initial creation, Ditko stated, "I still don't know whose idea was Spider-Man".[30] Ditko did, however, view the published version of Spider-Man as a separate creation to the one he saw in the five pencilled pages that Kirby had completed. To support this Ditko used the analogy of the Kirby/Marvel Thor, which was based on a name/idea of a character in Norse mythology: "If Marvel’s Thor is a valid created work by Jack, his creation, then why isn’t Spider-Man by Stan and me valid created work, our creation?" [31]

Kirby noted in a 1971 interview that it was Ditko who "got Spider-Man to roll, and the thing caught on because of what he did".[32] Lee, while claiming credit for the initial idea, has acknowledged Ditko's role, stating, "If Steve wants to be called co-creator, I think he deserves [it]".[33] He has further commented that Ditko's costume design was key to the character's success; since the costume completely covers Spider-Man's body, people of all races could visualize themselves inside the costume and thus more easily identify with the character.[18]

Commercial success

A few months after Spider-Man's introduction, publisher Goodman reviewed the sales figures for that issue and was shocked to find it was one of the nascent Marvel's highest-selling comics.[34]: 97  A solo ongoing series followed, beginning with The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (cover-dated March 1963). The title eventually became Marvel's top-selling series[8]: 211  with the character swiftly becoming a cultural icon; a 1965 Esquire poll of college campuses found that college students ranked Spider-Man and fellow Marvel hero the Hulk alongside Bob Dylan and Che Guevara as their favorite revolutionary icons. One interviewee selected Spider-Man because he was "beset by woes, money problems, and the question of existence. In short, he is one of us."[8]: 223  Following Ditko's departure after issue #38 (July 1966), John Romita Sr. replaced him as penciller and would draw the series for the next several years. In 1968, Romita would also draw the character's extra-length stories in the comics magazine The Spectacular Spider-Man, a proto-graphic novel designed to appeal to older readers. It only lasted for two issues, but it represented the first Spider-Man spin-off publication, aside from the original series' summer Annuals that began in 1964.[35]

An early 1970s Spider-Man story ultimately led to the revision of the Comics Code. Previously, the Code forbade the depiction of the use of illegal drugs, even negatively. However, in 1970, the Nixon administration's Department of Health, Education, and Welfare asked Stan Lee to publish an anti-drug message in one of Marvel's top-selling titles.[8]: 239  Lee chose the top-selling The Amazing Spider-Man; issues #96–98 (May–July 1971) feature a story arc depicting the negative effects of drug use. In the story, Peter Parker's friend Harry Osborn becomes addicted to pills. When Spider-Man fights the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn, Harry's father), Spider-Man defeats him by revealing Harry's drug addiction. While the story had a clear anti-drug message, the Comics Code Authority refused to issue its seal of approval. Marvel nevertheless published the three issues without the Comics Code Authority's approval or seal. The issues sold so well that the industry's self-censorship was undercut and the Code was subsequently revised.[8]: 239 

In 1972, a second monthly ongoing series starring Spider-Man began: Marvel Team-Up, in which Spider-Man was paired with other superheroes and supervillains.[36] From that point on, there have generally been at least two ongoing Spider-Man series at any time. In 1976, his second solo series, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man began running parallel to the main series.[37] A third series featuring Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, launched in 1985 to replace Marvel Team-Up.[38] The launch of a fourth monthly title in 1990, the "adjectiveless" Spider-Man (with the storyline "Torment"), written and drawn by popular artist Todd McFarlane, debuted with several different covers, all with the same interior content. The various versions combined sold over 3 million copies, an industry record at the time. Several miniseries, one-shot issues, and loosely related comics have also been published, and Spider-Man makes frequent cameos and guest appearances in other comic book series.[37][39] In 1996, The Sensational Spider-Man was created to replace Web of Spider-Man.[40]

In 1998 writer-artist John Byrne revamped the origin of Spider-Man in the 13-issue limited series Spider-Man: Chapter One (Dec. 1998 – Oct. 1999), similar to Byrne's adding details and some revisions to Superman's origin in DC Comics' The Man of Steel.[41] At the same time, the original The Amazing Spider-Man was ended with issue #441 (Nov. 1998), and The Amazing Spider-Man was restarted with vol. 2, #1 (Jan. 1999).[42] In 2003, Marvel reintroduced the original numbering for The Amazing Spider-Man and what would have been vol. 2, #59 became issue #500 (Dec. 2003).[42]

When the primary series The Amazing Spider-Man reached issue #545 (Dec. 2007), Marvel dropped its spin-off ongoing series and instead began publishing The Amazing Spider-Man three times monthly, beginning with #546–548 (all January 2008).[43] The three times-monthly scheduling of The Amazing Spider-Man lasted until November 2010, when the comic book was increased from 22 pages to 30 pages each issue and published only twice a month, beginning with #648–649 (both November 2010).[44][45] The following year, Marvel launched Avenging Spider-Man as the first spin-off ongoing series in addition to the still-twice monthly The Amazing Spider-Man since the previous ones were canceled at the end of 2007.[43] The Amazing series temporarily ended with issue #700 in December 2012, and was replaced by The Superior Spider-Man, which had Doctor Octopus serve as the new Spider-Man, his mind having taken over Peter Parker's body. Superior was an enormous commercial success for Marvel,[46] and ran for 31 issues before the real Peter Parker returned in a newly relaunched The Amazing Spider-Man #1 in April 2014.[47]

Following the 2015 Secret Wars crossover event, a number of Spider-Man-related titles were either relaunched or created as part of the "All-New, All-Different Marvel" event. Among them, The Amazing Spider-Man was relaunched as well and primarily focuses on Peter Parker continuing to run Parker Industries, and becoming a successful businessman who is operating worldwide.[48]

Fictional character biography

Early years

In Forest Hills, Queens, New York City,[49] Midtown High School student, Peter Benjamin Parker, is a science-whiz orphan living with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May ever since his parents, Richard and Mary Parker died in plane accident back when Peter was a child, leaving his uncle and aunt to care for him, they loved Peter as their own son despite that he is their nephew including Peter and Uncle Ben formed their "father and son" moments together, he also became a well educated high school student having won a scholarship in science class and gets higher grades but was socially inept and outcast, having been mocked and isolated by his classmates, especially his main bully and his peers—particularly football star, Flash Thompson. As depicted in Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962), Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider (erroneously classified as an insect in the panel) at a science exhibit and now has discovers that he has the incredible superhuman spider-powers and abilities which "acquires the proportionate strength of a spider", the proportionate speed of a spider, agility, lightning-fast reflexes, stamina, climbing walls and ceilings like a spider, and detecting dangers and upcoming threats by using his precognition ability called "spider-sense".[50] Along with heightened athletic powers, Peter test out his powers which he easily use it to defeat the heavyweight wrestling champion called "The Crusher" before being offered by manager to make fortune by becoming a TV superstar. Through his native knack for science, Peter develops a gadget that lets him fire adhesive webbing of his own design through small, wrist-mounted barrels and can use his web to web-swing across the cities and places. Initially seeking to gain on his new abilities, Peter creates a red and blue costume and then becomes "Spider-Man" before making his first appearance as a novelty television star. However, "He blithely ignores the chance to stop a fleeing thief, his indifference ironically catches up with him when the same criminal later robs and kills his Uncle Ben." Spider-Man vengefully tracks and overpowers the killer, but then he learns, in the story's next-to-last caption, "With great power, there must also come—great responsibility!" which inspires Spider-Man to use his spider-powers to fight crime by becoming the masked vigilante superhero.[51]

Despite his superpowers, Peter struggles to help his widowed aunt pay the rent, is taunted by Flash —and, as Spider-Man, engenders the editorial wrath of newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson.[52][53] Spider-Man battles his enemies including superpowered and non-superpowered supervillains such as his arch-enemy and nemesis called the Green Goblin, and then Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Chameleon, Lizard, Vulture, Kraven the Hunter, Electro, Mysterio, and more villains and defeats them one by one,[54] but Peter finds himself juggling his personal life and costumed adventures difficult. In time, Peter graduates from high school[55] and enrolls at Empire State University (a fictional institution evoking the real-life Columbia University and New York University),[56] where he meets roommate and best friend Harry Osborn and girlfriend Gwen Stacy,[57] and Aunt May introduces him to Mary Jane Watson.[54][58][59] As Peter deals with Harry's drug problems, and Harry's father, Norman Osborn, is revealed to be Spider-Man's nemesis the Green Goblin, Peter even attempts to give up his costumed identity for a while.[60][61] Gwen Stacy's father, New York City Police detective Captain George Stacy, is accidentally killed during a battle between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus (issue #90, November 1970).[62]

1970s

In issue #121 (June 1973),[54] the Green Goblin throws Gwen Stacy from a tower of either the Brooklyn Bridge (as depicted in the art) or the George Washington Bridge (as given in the text).[63][64] She dies during Spider-Man's rescue attempt; a note on the letters page of issue #125 states: "It saddens us to say that the whiplash effect she underwent when Spidey's webbing stopped her so suddenly was, in fact, what killed her."[65] The following issue, Spider-Man vengefully attacks and overpowers the Green Goblin who appears to have killed himself accidentally in the ensuing battle with Spider-Man.[66]

Working through his grief, Peter eventually develops tentative feelings toward Mary Jane, and the two "become confidants rather than lovers".[67] A romantic relationship eventually develops, with Parker proposing to her in issue #182 (July 1978), and being turned down an issue later.[68] Parker went on to graduate from college in issue #185,[54] and becomes involved with the shy Debra Whitman and the extroverted, flirtatious costumed thief Felicia Hardy, a.k.a. the Black Cat,[69] whom he meets in issue #194 (July 1979).[54]

 
The Amazing Spider-Man #252 (May 1984): The black costume debut that brought controversy to many fans. The suit was later revealed as an alien symbiote and was used in the creation of the villain Venom, cover art by Ron Frenz and Klaus Janson

1980s

From 1984 to 1988, Spider-Man wore a black costume with a white spider design on his chest. The new costume originated in the Secret Wars miniseries, on an alien planet where Spider-Man participates in a battle between Earth's major superheroes and supervillains.[70] He continues wearing the costume when he returns, starting in The Amazing Spider-Man #252. The change to a longstanding character's design met with controversy, "with many hardcore comics fans decrying it as tantamount to sacrilege. Spider-Man's traditional red and blue costume was iconic, they argued, on par with those of his D.C. rivals Superman and Batman."[71] The creators then revealed the costume was an alien symbiote which Spider-Man is able to reject after a difficult struggle,[72] though the symbiote returns several times as Venom for revenge.[54] Parker proposes to Watson in The Amazing Spider-Man #290 (July 1987), and she accepts two issues later, with the wedding taking place in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (1987)—promoted with a real-life mock wedding using actors at Shea Stadium, with Stan Lee officiating, on June 5, 1987.[73] David Michelinie, who scripted based on a plot by editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, said in 2007, "I didn't think they actually should [have gotten] married. ... I had actually planned another version, one that wasn't used."[73] Parker published a book of Spider-Man photographs called Webs.[74] and returned to his Empire State University graduate studies in biochemistry in #310 (Dec. 1988).[54]

1990s

In the controversial[75] 1990s storyline the "Clone Saga", a clone of Parker, created in 1970s comics by insane scientist Miles Warren, a.k.a. the Jackal, returns to New York City upon hearing of Aunt May's health worsening. The clone had lived incognito as "Ben Reilly", but now assumes the superhero guise the Scarlet Spider and allies with Parker. To the surprise of both, new tests indicate "Reilly" is the original and "Parker" the clone.[76] Complicating matters, Watson announces in The Spectacular Spider-Man #220 (Jan. 1995) that she is pregnant with Parker's baby.[54] Later, however, a resurrected Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) has Watson poisoned, causing premature labor and the death of her and Parker's unborn daughter.[77] The Green Goblin had switched the results of the clone test in an attempt to destroy Parker's life by making him believe himself to be the clone. Reilly is killed while saving Parker, in Peter Parker: Spider-Man #75 (Dec. 1996), and his body immediately crumbles into dust, confirming Reilly was the clone.[77]

In issue #97 (Nov. 1998) of the second series titled Peter Parker: Spider-Man,[78] Parker learns his Aunt May was kidnapped by Norman Osborn and her apparent death in The Amazing Spider-Man #400 (April 1995) had been a hoax.[79][80] Shortly afterward, in The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 2) #13 (#454, Jan. 2000), Watson is apparently killed in an airplane explosion.[81] She turns up alive and well in (vol. 2) #28 (#469, April 2001),[81] but she and Peter become separated in the following issue.[82]

2000s

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski began writing The Amazing Spider-Man, illustrated by John Romita Jr., beginning with (vol. 2) #30 (#471, June 2001). Two issues later, Parker, now employed as a teacher at his old high school, meets the enigmatic Ezekiel, who possesses similar spider powers and suggests that Parker having gained such abilities might not have been a fluke—that Parker has a connection to a totemic spider spirit. In (vol. 2) #37 (#478, Jan. 2002), May discovers her nephew Parker is Spider-Man, leading to a new openness in their relationship.[80] Parker and Watson reconcile in (vol. 2) #50 (#491, April 2003),[80] and in #512 (Nov. 2004)—the original issue numbering having returned with #500—Parker learns his late girlfriend Gwen Stacy had had two children with Norman Osborn.[83]

He joins the superhero team the New Avengers in New Avengers #1–2. After their respective homes are destroyed by a deranged, superpowered former high-school classmate, Parker, Watson, and May move into Stark Tower, and Parker begins working as Tony Stark's assistant while again freelancing for The Daily Bugle and continuing his teaching. In the 12-part 2005 story arc "The Other", Parker undergoes a transformation that evolves his powers. In the comic Civil War #2 (June 2006), part of the company-wide crossover arc of that title, the U.S. government's Superhuman Registration Act leads Spider-Man to reveal his true identity publicly. A growing unease about the Registration Act prompts him to escape with May and Watson and join the anti-registration underground.

In issue #537 (Dec. 2006), May is critically wounded by a sniper hired by Wilson Fisk and enters into a coma. Parker, desperate to save her, exhausts all possibilities and makes a pact with the demon-lord Mephisto, who saves May's life in exchange for Parker and Watson agreeing to have their marriage and all memory of it disappear. In this changed reality, Spider-Man's identity is secret once again, and in #545 (Jan. 2008), Watson returns and is cold toward him.

That controversial[84] storyline, "One More Day", rolled back much of the fictional continuity at the behest of editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, who said, "Peter being single is an intrinsic part of the very foundation of the world of Spider-Man".[84] It caused unusual public friction between Quesada and writer Straczynski, who "told Joe that I was going to take my name off the last two issues of the [story] arc", but was talked out of doing so.[85] At issue with Straczynski's climax to the arc, Quesada said, was

...that we didn't receive the story and methodology to the resolution that we were all expecting. What made that very problematic is that we had four writers and artists well underway on [the sequel arc] "Brand New Day" that were expecting and needed "One More Day" to end in the way that we had all agreed it would. ... The fact that we had to ask for the story to move back to its original intent understandably made Joe upset and caused some major delays and page increases in the series. Also, the science that Joe was going to apply to the retcon of the marriage would have made over 30 years of Spider-Man books worthless, because they never would have had happened. ...[I]t would have reset way too many things outside of the Spider-Man titles. We just couldn't go there....[85]

In this new continuity, designed to have very limited repercussions throughout the remainder of the Marvel Universe, Parker returns to work at the Daily Bugle, which has been renamed The DB under a new publisher.[86] He soon switches to the alternative press paper The Front Line.[87] J. Jonah Jameson becomes the Mayor of New York City in issue #591 (June 2008).[83] Jameson's estranged father, J. Jonah Jameson Sr., marries May in issue #600 (Sept. 2009).[83][88]

During the "Secret Invasion" by shape-shifting extra-terrestrials, the Skrulls, Norman Osborn shoots and kills the Skrull queen Veranke.[89] He leverages this widely publicized success, positioning himself as the new director of the S.H.I.E.L.D.-like paramilitary force H.A.M.M.E.R. to advance his agenda,[89] while using his public image to start his own Dark Avengers. Norman himself leads the Dark Avengers as the Iron Patriot, a suit of armor fashioned by himself after Iron Man's armor with Captain America's colors.[90]

Harry is approached by Norman with the offer of a job within the Dark Avengers. It is later revealed that it is a ruse to coerce Harry into taking the American Son armor, whom Norman had planned to kill, in order to increase public sympathy. When Harry has the option of killing Norman, Spider-Man says to decapitate him, since Norman's healing factor may repair a blow to the head. Spider-Man also cautions Harry that killing Norman will cause Harry to "become the son Norman always wanted". Harry instead backs down, and turns away from his father forever.[91]

2010s

At Loki's suggestion, Norman Osborn creates a rationale to invade Asgard, claiming the world poses a national security threat. He is however defeated, and ends up incarcerated in the Raft penitentiary.[92][93] A conflict between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus over Osborn's son ends when it is revealed the child's father is Harry, who leaves town to raise him.[94] One of Doctor Octopus' Octobots managed to swap his and Spider Man's personality, causing Peter to become trapped in the Doctor's dying body while he in turn claimed Peter's life for himself. Though Peter failed to reverse the change, he managed to establish a weak link with the Doctor's mind, forcing him to relive all of his memories; Otto understands Peter's ideals of power and responsibility and swears to carry on with Peter's life with dignity as a "Superior" Spider-Man.[95][96]

A portion of Peter survived in his original body in the form of a subconsciousness.[97] Later, realizing that he failed in his role as the "Superior" Spider-Man, Otto willingly allowed Peter to reclaim his body in order to defeat Osborn and save Anna Maria Marconi, Otto's love.[98] In the aftermath of these events, Peter began to amend the relationships damaged by Otto's arrogance and negligence, both as Peter Parker and Spider-Man. He additionally took up the reins of Parker Industries, a small company founded by Otto after leaving Horizon Labs.[99]

Peter soon learned a second person had been bitten by the radioactive spider, Cindy Moon.[100] Spider-Man tracked her down and freed her from a bunker owned by the late Ezekiel Simms.[101] Not long after rescuing Cindy, who went on to adopt her own superheroic identity as Silk,[102][103] Spider-Man was approached by a contingent of spider-people from all over the Multiverse that banded together to fight the Inheritors, a group of psychic vampires who had begun to hunt down the spider-totems of other realities.[104] During a mission to gather more recruits in A.D. 2099, the Spider-Army stumbled upon another party of spider-people led by a version of Otto Octavius.[105] Together, they neutralized the Inheritors and went their separate ways.

Peter then stopped another nefarious plan, this time put forward by the Jackal.[106] After the events of "Go Down Swinging," Peter's life was plagued with problems on both sides. As Spider-Man, Mayor Fisk publicly supported him, condemning all other vigilantes in order to isolate him from his superhero peers. As Peter Parker, his academic credentials were revoked after being accused of plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation from Octavius, resulting in his firing from the Daily Bugle. On the other hand, Peter became romantically involved again with Mary Jane.[107] For a brief time, Peter Parker and Spider-Man were split into separate beings due to an accident involving the reverse-engineered Isotope Genome Accelerator. Peter eventually managed to reverse the process, and merge his two halves back together before the side-effects could worsen and result in their death.[108]

2020s

Kindred uses the resurrected Sin-Eater's sins to possess Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Woman, Anya Corazon, and Julia Carpenter. Doctor Strange, who manages to restrain a possessed Silk, agrees to help Spider-Man. However, Peter dies when fighting Kindred. While dead, Peter's consciousness remembered the fateful day of the start of One More Day; Kindred is willing to resurrect Peter.[109]

Personality and themes

"People often say glibly that Marvel succeeded by blending super hero adventure stories with soap opera. What Lee and Ditko actually did in The Amazing Spider-Man was to make the series an ongoing novelistic chronicle of the lead character's life. Most super heroes had problems no more complex or relevant to their readers' lives than thwarting this month's bad guys... Parker had far more serious concern in his life: coming to terms with the death of a loved one, falling in love for the first time, struggling to make a living, and undergoing crises of conscience."

Comics historian Peter Sanderson[110]

Sally Kempton for the Village Voice opined in 1965 that "Spider-Man has a terrible identity problem, a marked inferiority complex, and a fear of women. He is anti-social, [sic] castration-ridden, racked with Oedipal guilt, and accident-prone ... [a] functioning neurotic".[49] Agonizing over his choices, always attempting to do right, he is nonetheless viewed with suspicion by the authorities, who seem unsure as to whether he is a helpful vigilante or a clever criminal.[111]

Notes cultural historian Bradford W. Wright,

Spider-Man's plight was to be misunderstood and persecuted by the very public that he swore to protect. In the first issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, J. Jonah Jameson, publisher of the Daily Bugle, launches an editorial campaign against the "Spider-Man menace." The resulting negative publicity exacerbates popular suspicions about the mysterious Spider-Man and makes it impossible for him to earn any more money by performing. Eventually, the bad press leads the authorities to brand him an outlaw. Ironically, Peter finally lands a job as a photographer for Jameson's Daily Bugle.[8]: 212 

The mid-1960s stories reflect the political tensions of the time. Early 1960s Marvel stories often deal with the Cold War and Communism.[8]: 220–223  As Wright observes,

From his high-school beginnings to his entry into college life, Spider-Man remained the superhero most relevant to the world of young people. Fittingly, then, his comic book also contained some of the earliest references to the politics of young people. In 1968, in the wake of actual militant student demonstrations at Columbia University, Peter Parker finds himself in the midst of similar unrest at his Empire State University.... Peter has to reconcile his natural sympathy for the students with his assumed obligation to combat lawlessness as Spider-Man. As a law-upholding liberal, he finds himself caught between militant leftism and angry conservatives.[8]: 234–235 

Powers, abilities, and equipment

Spider-Man possesses incredible superhuman spider-powers and abilities derived from a mutation after being bitten by a radioactive spider.[112] Since the original Stan Lee-Steve Ditko stories, Spider-Man has had the ability to cling to wall surfaces and ceilings to climb walls and ceilings like a spider. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe speculated that this was based on a distance-dependent interaction between his body and surfaces, known as the van der Waals force,[113] though in the 2002's Spider-Man film, his hands and feet are lined with tiny clinging cilia in the manner of a real spider's feet. Spider-Man's other spider-powers include superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, reflexes, durability, coordination and balance, and a precognitive sixth sense referred to as his "spider-sense," which alerts him to danger.[112]

Spider-Man has a healing factor that allows him to recover from injuries sustained during battle.[114] In the aftermath of the 1989 "Acts of Vengeance" storyline, Spider-Man was said to have "superhuman recuperative abilities" that sped up his recovery from the exhaustion he suffered in defeating the Tri-Sentinel.[115]

Peter Parker was originally conceived by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko as intellectually gifted, but later writers have depicted his intellect at genius level.[116] Academically brilliant, Peter has expertise in the fields of applied science, chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, mathematics, and mechanics. Even Reed Richards, the most intelligent individual in the Marvel universe and a prolific scientist in his own right, has acknowledged that Peter’s knowledge of biology surpasses his own, admitting that Peter can think of a problem from a biology perspective where he would be unable to do so, since his expertise lies in physics. After his years of crime-fighting, Spider-Man has honed his fighting skills into an equivalent of martial arts and hand-to-hand combat skills that is unique to his spider-powers, able to hold his own against formidable supervillains such as Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Chameleon, Vulture, Mysterio, Electro, Lizard, Scorpion, Kraven the Hunter, and Venom. His fighting style is unique and specific to him and, as such, it is incredibly difficult to combat against.

With his talents, Peter created his own Spider-Man costume to conceal his identity, he contrives many devices that complement his powers, most notably mechanical web-shooters that allow him to shoot webs, swing at high speeds throughout the city, to help navigate, and trap his enemies with his webs during crime-fighting, as well as with a spider-signal as a flashlight and a warning beacon to criminals as Spider-Man.[112] Thomas Fireheart's scientists, among the best in the world, are unable to replicate the fluid Peter created while in high school.[117]

Supporting cast

 
Spider-Man has had a wide range of connected characters during his inception. A variant cover art of The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 3) #1 depicts the heads of various Spider-Man enemies behind Spider-Man (as drawn by Kevin Maguire) as shown in the center.

Spider-Man has had a large range of supporting characters introduced in the comics that are essential in the issues and storylines that star him. After his parents died, Peter Parker was raised by his loving aunt, May Parker, and his uncle and father figure, Ben Parker. After Uncle Ben is murdered by a burglar, Aunt May is virtually Peter's only family, and she and Peter are very close.[50]

J. Jonah Jameson is the publisher of the Daily Bugle and Peter Parker's boss. A harsh critic of Spider-Man, he constantly features negative articles about the superhero in his newspaper. Despite his role as Jameson's editor and confidant, Robbie Robertson is always depicted as a supporter of both Peter Parker and Spider-Man.[52]

Eugene "Flash" Thompson is commonly depicted as Parker's high school tormentor and bully, but in later comic issues he becomes a friend to Peter and adopts his own superhero identity, Agent Venom, after merging with the Venom symbiote.[52] Meanwhile, Harry Osborn, son of Norman Osborn, is most commonly recognized as Peter's best friend, although some versions depicted him as his rival.[54]

Enemies

Writers and artists over the years have established a rogues gallery of supervillains to face Spider-Man, in comics and in other media. As with the hero, the majority of the villains' powers originate with scientific accidents or the misuse of scientific technology, and many have animal-themed costumes or powers.[note 6] The most notable Spider-Man villains are listed down below in the ordering of their original chronological appearance:

  Indicates a group.

Spider-Man's enemies
Supervillain name / Supervillain team name Notable alter ego / group member First appearance Creator
Chameleon Dmitri Nikolayevich The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963)[118][119] Stan Lee[118][119]
Steve Ditko[118][119]
Vulture Adrian Toomes The Amazing Spider-Man #2 (May 1963)[120][121] Stan Lee[120][122]
Steve Ditko[120]
Doctor Octopus Otto Octavius1 The Amazing Spider-Man #3 (July 1963)[119] Stan Lee[123][124]
Steve Ditko[15][124]
Sandman William Baker / Flint Marko The Amazing Spider-Man #4 (Sept. 1963)[125][126] Stan Lee[125][126]
Steve Ditko[125][126]
Lizard Curt Connors The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (Nov. 1963)[127][128][129] Stan Lee[127][128][129]
Steve Ditko[127][128][129]
Electro Max Dillon The Amazing Spider-Man #9 (Feb. 1964)[130][131] Stan Lee[132]
Steve Ditko[132]
Mysterio Quentin Beck The Amazing Spider-Man #13 (June 1964)[133] Stan Lee[133][134]
Steve Ditko[133][134]
Green Goblin[135] Norman Osborn2
Harry Osborn[136]
The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964)[135] Stan Lee[135][137]
Steve Ditko[135][137]
Kraven the Hunter Sergei Kravinoff The Amazing Spider-Man #15 (Aug. 1964)[137][138] Stan Lee[137]
Steve Ditko[137]
Sinister Six[139] List of members The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964) Stan Lee[140]
Steve Ditko[140]
Scorpion Mac Gargan The Amazing Spider-Man #20 (Jan. 1965) Stan Lee[141]
Steve Ditko[141]
Rhino Aleksei Sytsevich The Amazing Spider-Man #41 (Oct. 1966)[142] Stan Lee[143]
John Romita Sr.[143]
Shocker Herman Schultz The Amazing Spider-Man #46 (March 1967)[144] Stan Lee[145]
John Romita Sr.[145]
Kingpin Wilson Fisk The Amazing Spider-Man #50 (July 1967)[146]
[147]
Stan Lee[148]
John Romita Sr.[148]
Morbius[149] Michael Morbius The Amazing Spider-Man #101 (Jan. 1971)[150] Roy Thomas[150]
Gil Kane[151]
Black Cat Felicia Hardy The Amazing Spider-Man #194 (July 1979)[152] Marv Wolfman
Keith Pollard[152]
Hobgoblin Roderick Kingsley
Jason Macendale[153]
Ned Leeds[153]
The Amazing Spider-Man #238 (March 1983) Roger Stern[154][155]
John Romita Sr.[154][156]
Venom Eddie Brock3 The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (May 1988)15[157][158] David Michelinie[159]
Todd McFarlane[160]
Carnage Cletus Kasady The Amazing Spider-Man #361 (April 1992)[161] David Michelinie[162][163]
Erik Larsen[164]
Mark Bagley[162]

Unlike most superheroes, Spider-Man does not have a single villain with whom he has come into conflict the most. Instead, he is often regarded as having three archenemies, and it can be debated as to which one is the worst:[165]

  1. ^ Doctor Octopus (a.k.a. Doc Ock) is a highly intelligent mad scientist who utilizes four mechanical appendages for both movement and combat. He has been described as Spider-Man's greatest enemy, and the man Peter Parker might have become if he had not been raised with a sense of responsibility.[15][166] Doc Ock is infamous for defeating him the first time in battle and for almost marrying Peter's Aunt May. He is also the core leader of the Sinister Six, and at one point adopted the "Master Planner" alias. ("If This Be My Destiny...!")[167] Later depictions revealed him in Peter Parker's body where he was the titular character for a while.[166]
  2. ^ The Norman Osborn version of the Green Goblin is most commonly regarded as Spider-Man's archenemy.[165][168][169] While Norman is usually portrayed as an amoral industrialist and the head of the Oscorp scientific corporation, the Goblin is a psychopathic alternate personality, born after Norman's exposore to some unstable chemicals that also increased his strength and agility. The Goblin is a Halloween-themed villain, dressing up like an actual goblin and utilizing a large arsenal of high tech weapons, including a glider and pumpkin-shaped explosives. Unlike most villains, who only aim to kill Spider-Man, the Goblin also targeted his loved ones and showed no remorse in killing them as long as it caused pain to Spider-Man, therefore making him not only Spider-Man's worst enemy, but also Peter Parker's. His most infamous feat is killing Spider-Man's girlfriend in what became one of the most famous Spider-Man stories of all time and helped end the Silver Age of Comic Books and begin the Bronze Age of Comic Books.[165] While the Goblin was killed in the same story, he returned in the 1990s to plague Spider-Man once again, committing more heinous acts (such as being involved in the murder of Aunt May). He also came into conflict with other heroes, such as the Avengers.[170] Norman is sometimes depicted as an enemy of Spider-Man even when not being the Green Goblin.[171]
  3. ^ The Eddie Brock incarnation of Venom is often regarded as Spider-Man's deadliest foe, and has been described as an evil mirror version of Spider-Man in many ways.[157][119][165] He is also among Spider-Man's most popular villains.[172] Originally a reporter who grew to despise Spider-Man, Eddie later came into contact with the Venom symbiote, which had been rejected by Spider-Man. The symbiote merged with Eddie and gave him the same powers as Spider-Man, in addition to making him immune to the web-slinger's "spider-sense". Venom's main goal is usually to ruin Peter Parker's life and mess with his head in any way he can.[160] Despite this, Venom is not a traditional criminal, as he is only interested in hurting Spider-Man and does not engage in criminal acts, lacking the typical supervillain desires for wealth and power. The character also has a sense of honor and justice, and later starred in his own comic book stories, where he is depicted as an antihero and has a desire to protect innocent people from harm. On several occasions, he and Spider-Man even put their differences aside and became allies.[157][173]

Romantic interests

Peter Parker's romantic interests range between his first crush, fellow high-school student Liz Allan,[52] to having his first date with Betty Brant,[174] secretary to the Daily Bugle newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson. After his breakup with Betty Brant, Parker eventually falls in love with his college girlfriend Gwen Stacy,[54][57] daughter of New York City Police Department detective Captain George Stacy, both of whom are later killed by supervillain enemies of Spider-Man.[62] Mary Jane Watson eventually became Peter's best friend and then his wife.[73] Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, is a reformed cat burglar who had been Spider-Man's sole superhuman girlfriend and partner at one point.[69]

Alternate versions of Spider-Man

Within the Marvel Universe there exists a multiverse with many variations of Spider-Men.[175] An early character included in the 1980s is the fictional anthropomorphic animal parody of Spider-Man in pig form named Spider-Ham (Peter Porker).[176] Many imprints of Spider-Men were created, like the futuristic version of Spider-Man in Marvel 2099 named Miguel O'Hara. In the MC2 imprint, Peter marries Mary Jane and has a daughter named Mayday Parker, who carries on Spider-Man's legacy and Marvel Noir has a 1930s version of Peter Parker.[175][177][178] Other themed versions exist within the early 2000s, such as a Marvel Mangaverse version and an Indian version from Spider-Man: India named Pavitr Prabhakar.[175][179]

Ultimate Spider-Man was a popular modern retelling of Peter Parker. The version of Parker would later be depicted as being killed off and replaced by an Afro-Latino Spider-Man named Miles Morales.[180]

The storyline "Spider-Verse" brought back many alternate takes on Spider-Man and introduced many newly inspired ones, such as an alternate world where Gwen Stacy gets bitten by a radioactive spider instead, along with a British-themed version named Spider-UK called Billy Braddock from the Captain Britain Corps.[177][181]

Cultural impact and legacy

 
Graph image depicting Spider-Man as the leading superhero in merchandise retail sales worldwide in 2016 (in millions)[182]

In The Creation of Spider-Man, comic book writer-editor and historian Paul Kupperberg calls the character's superpowers "nothing too original"; what was original was that outside his secret identity, he was a "nerdy high school student".[183]: 5  Going against typical superhero fare, Spider-Man included "heavy doses of soap-opera and elements of melodrama". Kupperberg feels that Lee and Ditko had created something new in the world of comics: "the flawed superhero with everyday problems". This idea spawned a "comics revolution".[183]: 6  The insecurity and anxieties in Marvel's early 1960s comic books, such as The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four, and The X-Men ushered in a new type of superhero, very different from the certain and all-powerful superheroes before them, and changed the public's perception of them.[184] Spider-Man has become one of the most recognizable fictional characters in the world, and has been used to sell toys, games, cereal, candy, soap, and many other products.[185]

Spider-Man has often been used as the company mascot. When Marvel became the first comic book company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1991, The Wall Street Journal announced "Spider-Man is coming to Wall Street"; the event was in turn promoted with an actor in a Spider-Man costume accompanying Stan Lee to the Stock Exchange.[8]: 254  Since 1962, hundreds of millions of comics featuring the character have been sold around the world.[186] Spider-Man is the world's most profitable superhero.[187] In 2014, global retail sales of licensed products related to Spider-Man reached approximately $1.3 billion.[188] Comparatively, this amount exceeds the global licensing revenue of Batman, Superman, and the Avengers combined.[187] Spider-Man is also one of the highest-grossing franchise titles being the highest-grossing American comic book superhero[189][190] est. $25.6 billion worldwide.[191][192]

 
U.S. President Barack Obama pretending to be webbed up by a boy dressed in a Spider-Man costume inside the White House

Spider-Man joined the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1987 to 1998 as one of the balloon floats,[193] designed by John Romita Sr.,[194] one of the character's signature artists. A new, different Spider-Man balloon float also appeared from 2009 to 2014.[193]

When Marvel wanted to issue a story dealing with the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the company chose the December 2001 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.[195] In 2006, Spider-Man garnered major media coverage with the revelation of the character's secret identity,[196] an event detailed in a full-page story in the New York Post before the issue containing the story was even released.[197]

In 2008, Marvel announced plans to release a series of educational comics the following year in partnership with the United Nations, depicting Spider-Man alongside the UN Peacekeeping Forces to highlight UN peacekeeping missions.[198] A BusinessWeek article listed Spider-Man as one of the top 10 most intelligent fictional characters in American comics.[199]

In 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a case concerning royalties on a patent for an imitation web shooter. The opinion for the Court, by Justice Elena Kagan, included several Spider-Man references, concluding with the statement that "with great power, there must also come—great responsibility".[200]

Spider-Man has become a subject of scientific inquiry. In 1987, researchers at Loyola University conducted a study into the utility of Spider-Man comics for informing children and parents about issues relating to child abuse.[201]

Reception

The culmination of nearly every superhero that came before him, Spider-Man is the hero of heroes. He's got fun and cool powers, but not on the god-like level of Thor. He's just a normal guy with girlfriend problems and money issues, so he's more relatable than playboy billionaire Iron Man. And he's an awkward teenager, not a wizened adult like Captain America. Not too hot and not too cold, Spider-Man is just right.

—IGN staff on placing Spider-Man as the number one hero of Marvel.[202]

In 2005, Bravo's Ultimate Super Heroes, Vixens, and Villains TV series declared that Spider-Man was the number 1 superhero.[203] Empire magazine ranked him the fifth-greatest comic book character of all time.[204] Wizard magazine placed Spider-Man as the third-greatest comic book character on their website.[205] In 2011, Spider-Man placed third on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time, behind DC Comics characters Superman and Batman.[202] and sixth in their 2012 list of "The Top 50 Avengers".[206] In 2014, IGN identified Spider-Man the greatest Marvel Comics character of all time.[207] A 2015 poll at Comic Book Resources named Spider-Man the greatest Marvel character of all time.[208] IGN described him as the common everyman that represents many normal people but also noted his uniqueness compared to many top-tiered superheroes with his many depicted flaws as a superhero. IGN noted that, despite being one of the most tragic superheroes of all time, he is "one of the most fun and snarky superheroes in existence."[202] Empire praised Spider-man's always-present sense of humor and wisecracks in the face of the many tragedies he faces. The magazine website appraised the depiction of his "iconic" superhero poses describing it as "a top artist's dream".[205]

George Marston of Newsarama called Spider-Man's origin the greatest origin story of all time, opining that "Spider-Man's origin combines all of the most classic aspects of pathos, tragedy and scientific wonder into the perfect blend for a superhero origin."[209]

Real-life comparisons

Real-life people who have been compared to Spider-Man for their climbing feats include:

In other media

Spider-Man in film
 
 
 
Tobey Maguire (left), Andrew Garfield (center), and Tom Holland (right) have portrayed Spider-Man in film.

Spider-Man has appeared in comics, cartoons, films, video games, coloring books, novels, records, children's books, and theme park rides.[185] On television, he first starred in the ABC animated series Spider-Man (1967–1970),[214] Spidey Super Stories (1974–1977) on PBS, and the CBS live-action series The Amazing Spider-Man (1978–1979), starring Nicholas Hammond. Other animated series featuring the superhero include the syndicated Spider-Man (1981–1982), Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981–1983), Fox Kids' Spider-Man (1994–1998), Spider-Man Unlimited (1999–2000), Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003), The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008–2009),[citation needed] Ultimate Spider-Man (2012–2017)[215] Disney XD's Spider-Man (2017–2020), and Spidey and His Amazing Friends (2021–present).[citation needed]

A tokusatsu series featuring Spider-Man was produced by Toei and aired in Japan. It is commonly referred to by its Japanese pronunciation "Supaidā-Man".[216] Spider-Man also appeared in other print forms besides the comics, including novels, children's books, and the daily newspaper comic strip The Amazing Spider-Man, which debuted in January 1977, with the earliest installments written by Stan Lee and drawn by John Romita Sr.[217] Spider-Man has been adapted to other media including games, toys, collectibles, and miscellaneous memorabilia, and has appeared as the main character in numerous computer and video games on over 15 gaming platforms.[citation needed]

Spider-Man was featured in a trilogy of live-action films directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire as the titular superhero. The first Spider-Man film of the trilogy was released on May 3, 2002, followed by Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). A third sequel was originally scheduled to be released in 2011; however, Sony later decided to reboot the franchise with a new director and cast. The reboot, titled The Amazing Spider-Man, was released on July 3, 2012, directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield as the new Spider-Man.[218][219][220] It was followed by The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).[221][222] In 2015, Sony and Disney made a deal for Spider-Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.[223] Tom Holland made his debut as Spider-Man in the MCU film Captain America: Civil War (2016), before later starring in his standalone film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), directed by Jon Watts.[224][225] Holland reprised his role as Spider-Man in Avengers: Infinity War (2018),[226][227] Avengers: Endgame (2019),[228] Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019),[229] and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021); Maguire and Garfield reprise their roles as past Spider-Men in the latter film.[230] Jake Johnson voiced an alternate universe version of Spider-Man in the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,[231] and will reprise the role in its sequel in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Chris Pine also voiced another version of Peter Parker in Into the Spider-Verse.[232]

Following a brief contract dispute over financial terms, in 2019 Sony and Disney reached a deal to allow Spider-Man to return to the MCU, with the two studios jointly producing Spider-Man films.[233]

A Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, began previews on November 14, 2010, at the Foxwoods Theatre on Broadway, with the official opening night on June 14, 2011.[234][235] The music and lyrics were written by Bono and The Edge of the rock group U2, with a book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.[236] Turn Off the Dark is currently the most expensive musical in Broadway history, costing an estimated $70 million.[237] In addition, the show's unusually high running costs are reported to have been about $1.2 million per week.[238]

In the fine arts, and starting with the Pop Art period and on a continuing basis since the 1960s, the character of Spider-Man has been "appropriated" by multiple visual artists and incorporated into contemporary artwork, most notably by Andy Warhol,[239][240] Roy Lichtenstein,[241] Mel Ramos,[242] Dulce Pinzon,[243] Mr. Brainwash,[244] F. Lennox Campello,[245] Vijay,[246] and others.[which?]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Lee, Stan; Mair, George (2002). Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. Fireside. ISBN 978-0-684-87305-3.
  2. ^ Detroit Free Press interview with Stan Lee, quoted in The Steve Ditko Reader by Greg Theakston (Pure Imagination, Brooklyn, NY; ISBN 1-56685-011-8), p. 12 (unnumbered). "He gave me 1,000 reasons why Spider-Man would never work. Nobody likes spiders; it sounds too much like Superman; and how could a teenager be a superhero? Then I told him I wanted the character to be a very human guy, someone who makes mistakes, who worries, who gets acne, has trouble with his girlfriend, things like that. [Goodman replied,] 'He's a hero! He's not an average man!' I said, 'No, we make him an average man who happens to have super powers, that's what will make him good.' He told me I was crazy".
  3. ^ Ditko, Steve (2000). Roy Thomas (ed.). Alter Ego: The Comic Book Artist Collection. TwoMorrows Publishing. ISBN 978-1-893905-06-1. "'Stan said a new Marvel hero would be introduced in #15 [of what became titled Amazing Fantasy]. He would be called Spider-Man. Jack would do the penciling and I was to ink the character.' At this point still, Stan said Spider-Man would be a teenager with a magic ring which could transform him into an adult hero—Spider-Man. I said it sounded like the Fly, which Joe Simon had done for Archie Comics. Stan called Jack about it but I don't know what was discussed. I never talked to Jack about Spider-Man... Later, at some point, I was given the job of drawing Spider-Man'".
  4. ^ Jack Kirby in "Shop Talk: Jack Kirby", Will Eisner's Spirit Magazine #39 (February 1982): "Spider-Man was discussed between Joe Simon and myself. It was the last thing Joe and I had discussed. We had a strip called 'The Silver Spider.' The Silver Spider was going into a magazine called Black Magic. Black Magic folded with Crestwood (Simon & Kirby's 1950s comics company) and we were left with the script. I believe I said this could become a thing called Spider-Man, see, a superhero character. I had a lot of faith in the superhero character that they could be brought back... and I said Spider-Man would be a fine character to start with. But Joe had already moved on. So the idea was already there when I talked to Stan".
  5. ^ Simon, Joe, with Jim Simon. The Comic Book Makers (Crestwood/II, 1990) ISBN 1-887591-35-4. "There were a few holes in Jack's never-dependable memory. For instance, there was no Black Magic involved at all. ... Jack brought in the Spider-Man logo that I had loaned to him before we changed the name to The Silver Spider. Kirby laid out the story to Lee about the kid who finds a ring in a spiderweb, gets his powers from the ring, and goes forth to fight crime armed with The Silver Spider's old web-spinning pistol. Stan Lee said, 'Perfect, just what I want.' After obtaining permission from publisher Martin Goodman, Lee told Kirby to pencil-up an origin story. Kirby... using parts of an old rejected superhero named Night Fighter... revamped the old Silver Spider script, including revisions suggested by Lee. But when Kirby showed Lee the sample pages, it was Lee's turn to gripe. He had been expecting a skinny young kid who is transformed into a skinny young kid with spider powers. Kirby had him turn into... Captain America with cobwebs. He turned Spider-Man over to Steve Ditko, who... ignored Kirby's pages, tossed the character's magic ring, web-pistol and goggles... and completely redesigned Spider-Man's costume and equipment. In this life, he became high-school student Peter Parker, who gets his spider powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider. ... Lastly, the Spider-Man logo was redone and a dashing hyphen added".
  6. ^ Mondello, Salvatore (March 2004). "Spider-Man: Superhero in the Liberal Tradition". The Journal of Popular Culture. X (1): 232–238. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1976.1001_232.x.

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Peter Parker and Spidey redirect here For other people see Peter Parker disambiguation For the comic book series see Spidey comic book For subsequent versions of the character see List of incarnations of Spider Man For other uses see Spider Man disambiguation Spider Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics Created by writer editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko he first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy 15 August 1962 in the Silver Age of Comic Books He has been featured in comic books television shows films video games novels and plays Spider Man s secret identity is Peter Parker a teenage high school student and an orphan raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City after his parents Richard and Mary Parker died in a plane crash Lee and Ditko had the character deal with the struggles of adolescence and financial issues and gave him many supporting characters such as Flash Thompson J Jonah Jameson and Harry Osborn romantic interests Gwen Stacy Mary Jane Watson and the Black Cat and his enemies such as the Green Goblin Doctor Octopus and Venom In his origin story Spider Man gets his superhuman spider powers and abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider these include clinging to surfaces and ceilings superhuman strength speed agility reflexes stamina and detecting danger with his precognition ability called spider sense He also builds wrist mounted web shooter devices that shoot artificial spider webs of his own design that were meant to be used for fighting his enemies and web swinging across the city After the personal tragedy of his late Uncle Ben who is killed by a thief whom Peter failed to bring himself to stop Peter began using his spider powers to fight against crime as Spider Man Spider ManTextless cover of Web of Spider Man 129 1 October 2012 Art by Mike McKone and Morry Hollowell Publication informationPublisherMarvel ComicsFirst appearanceAmazing Fantasy 15 August 1962 Created byStan LeeSteve DitkoIn story informationAlter egoPeter Benjamin ParkerSpeciesHuman mutatePlace of originQueens New York CityTeam affiliationsAvengers Fantastic Four X Men Secret Defenders Future Foundation Daily Bugle Heroes for Hire Mighty Avengers New Avengers Spider Army Web WarriorsPartnershipsBlack Cat Silk Spider Man Miles Morales Spider Woman Gwen Stacy Notable aliasesSpidey The Amazing Spider Man Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man Webhead Webslinger Wall Crawler Ricochet 1 Dusk 2 Prodigy 3 Hornet 4 Ben Reilly 5 Scarlet Spider 6 and Captain Universe 7 AbilitiesSuperhuman strength speed agility reflexes stamina durability coordination and balance Wall climbing on the surfaces and ceilings Precognitive spider sense Genius level intellect Proficient scientist and engineer Utilizes wrist mounted web shooters Accelerated healing Master acrobat Master martial artist and hand to hand combatantWhen Spider Man first appeared in the early 1960s teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the main character The Spider Man series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker a high school student from Queens New York as Spider Man s secret identity whose self obsessions with rejection inadequacy and loneliness were issues to which young readers could relate 8 While Spider Man had all the makings of a sidekick unlike previous teen heroes such as Bucky and Robin Spider Man had no superhero mentor like Captain America and Batman he thus had to learn for himself that with great power comes great responsibility a line included in a text box in the final panel of the first Spider Man s origin story but later retroactively attributed to his guardian his late Uncle Ben Parker Marvel has featured Spider Man as the title character and main protagonist in several comic book series the first and longest lasting of which is The Amazing Spider Man Over the years the Peter Parker character developed from a shy nerdy New York City high school student to a troubled but outgoing college student to a married high school teacher to in the late 2000s a single freelance photographer In the 2000s he joins the Avengers Doctor Octopus also took on the identity for a story arc spanning 2012 2014 following a body swap plot in which Peter appears to die 9 Marvel has also published books featuring alternate versions of Spider Man including Spider Man 2099 which features the adventures of Miguel O Hara the Spider Man of the future Ultimate Spider Man which features the adventures of a teenaged Peter Parker in an alternate universe and Ultimate Comics Spider Man which depicts the teenager Miles Morales who takes up the mantle of Spider Man after Ultimate Peter Parker s supposed death Miles later became a superhero in his own right and was brought into mainstream continuity where he sometimes works alongside Peter Spider Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes 10 He has appeared in countless forms of media including several animated TV series a live action television series syndicated newspaper comic strips and multiple series of films The character was first portrayed in live action by Danny Seagren in Spidey Super Stories a The Electric Company skit which ran from 1974 to 1977 11 In films Spider Man has been portrayed by actors Tobey Maguire Andrew Garfield 12 and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Tom Holland He was voiced by Chris Pine and Jake Johnson in the animated film Spider Man Into the Spider Verse 2018 with Johnson reprising the role in its sequel Spider Man Across the Spider Verse 2023 Reeve Carney starred originally as Spider Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider Man Turn Off the Dark 13 Spider Man has been well received as a superhero and comic book character and he is often ranked as one of the most popular and iconic comic book characters of all time and one of the most popular characters in all fiction Contents 1 Publication history 1 1 Creation and development 1 2 Commercial success 2 Fictional character biography 2 1 Early years 2 2 1970s 2 3 1980s 2 4 1990s 2 5 2000s 2 6 2010s 2 7 2020s 3 Personality and themes 4 Powers abilities and equipment 5 Supporting cast 5 1 Enemies 5 2 Romantic interests 5 3 Alternate versions of Spider Man 6 Cultural impact and legacy 6 1 Reception 6 2 Real life comparisons 7 In other media 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 External linksPublication historyFurther information List of Spider Man titles Creation and development Richard Wentworth a k a the Spider in the pulp magazine The Spider Stan Lee stated that it was the name of this character that inspired him to create a character that would become Spider Man 14 In 1962 with the success of the Fantastic Four Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee was casting about for a new superhero idea He said the idea for Spider Man arose from a surge in teenage demand for comic books and the desire to create a character with whom teens could identify 15 1 As with Fantastic Four Lee saw Spider Man as an opportunity to get out of his system what he felt was missing in comic books 16 In his autobiography Lee cites the non superhuman pulp magazine crime fighter the Spider as a great influence 14 130 17 and in a multitude of print and video interviews Lee stated he was further inspired by seeing a spider climb up a wall adding in his autobiography that he has told that story so often he has become unsure of whether or not this is true note 1 page needed Besides the name the Spider was wanted by both the law and the criminal underworld a defining theme of Spider Man s early years and had through years of ceaseless struggle developed a sixth sense which warns him of danger the apparent inspiration for Spider Man s spider sense 17 Although at the time teenage superheroes were usually given names ending with boy Lee says he chose Spider Man because he wanted the character to age as the series progressed and felt the name Spider Boy would have made the character sound inferior to other superheroes 18 He also decided to insert a hyphen in the name as he felt it looked too similar to Superman another superhero with a red and blue costume that starts with an S and ends with man 19 although artist Steve Ditko intended the character to have an orange and purple costume 20 At that time Lee had to get only the consent of Marvel publisher Martin Goodman for the character s approval In a 1986 interview Lee described in detail his arguments to overcome Goodman s objections note 2 Goodman eventually agreed to a Spider Man tryout in what Lee in numerous interviews recalled as what would be the final issue of the science fiction and supernatural anthology series Amazing Adult Fantasy which was renamed Amazing Fantasy for that single issue 15 cover dated August 1962 on sale June 5 1962 21 In particular Lee stated that the fact that it had already been decided that Amazing Fantasy would be canceled after issue 15 was the only reason Goodman allowed him to use Spider Man 18 While this was indeed the final issue its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing and that The Spiderman sic will appear every month in Amazing 21 22 Regardless Lee received Goodman s approval for the name Spider Man and the ordinary teen concept and approached artist Jack Kirby As comics historian Greg Theakston recounts Kirby told Lee about an unpublished character on which he had collaborated with Joe Simon in the 1950s in which an orphaned boy living with an old couple finds a magic ring that granted him superhuman powers Lee and Kirby immediately sat down for a story conference Theakston writes and Lee afterward directed Kirby to flesh out the character and draw some pages 23 Steve Ditko would be the inker note 3 When Kirby showed Lee the first six pages Lee recalled I hated the way he was doing it Not that he did it badly it just wasn t the character I wanted it was too heroic 23 12 Lee turned to Ditko who developed a visual style Lee found satisfactory Ditko recalled One of the first things I did was to work up a costume A vital visual part of the character I had to know how he looked before I did any breakdowns For example A clinging power so he wouldn t have hard shoes or boots a hidden wrist shooter versus a web gun and holster etc I wasn t sure Stan would like the idea of covering the character s face but I did it because it hid an obviously boyish face It would also add mystery to the character 24 Although the interior artwork was by Ditko alone Lee rejected Ditko s cover art and commissioned Kirby to pencil a cover that Ditko inked 21 As Lee explained in 2010 I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jack s covers 25 In an early recollection of the character s creation Ditko described his and Lee s contributions in a mail interview with Gary Martin published in Comic Fan 2 Summer 1965 Stan Lee thought the name up I did costume web gimmick on wrist amp spider signal 26 At the time Ditko shared a Manhattan studio with noted fetish artist Eric Stanton an art school classmate who in a 1988 interview with Theakston recalled that although his contribution to Spider Man was almost nil he and Ditko had worked on storyboards together and I added a few ideas But the whole thing was created by Steve on his own I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands 23 14 Ditko claimed in a rare interview with Jonathan Ross that the costume was initially envisioned with an orange and purple color scheme rather than the more famous red and blue 27 Amazing Fantasy 15 Aug 1962 first introduced the character It was a gateway to commercial success for the superhero and inspired the launch of The Amazing Spider Man comic book Cover art by penciller Jack Kirby and inker Steve Ditko Kirby disputed Lee s version of the story and claimed Lee had minimal involvement in the character s creation According to Kirby the idea for Spider Man had originated with Kirby and Joe Simon who in the 1950s had developed a character called the Silver Spider for the Crestwood Publications comic Black Magic who was subsequently not used note 4 Simon in his 1990 autobiography disputed Kirby s account asserting that Black Magic was not a factor and that he Simon devised the name Spider Man later changed to The Silver Spider while Kirby outlined the character s story and powers Simon later elaborated that his and Kirby s character conception became the basis for Simon s Archie Comics superhero the Fly 28 Artist Steve Ditko stated that Lee liked the name Hawkman from DC Comics and that Spider Man was an outgrowth of that interest 24 Simon concurred that Kirby had shown the original Spider Man version to Lee who liked the idea and assigned Kirby to draw sample pages of the new character but disliked the results in Simon s description Captain America with cobwebs note 5 Writer Mark Evanier notes that Lee s reasoning that Kirby s character was too heroic seems unlikely Kirby still drew the covers for Amazing Fantasy 15 and the first issue of The Amazing Spider Man Evanier also disputes Kirby s given reason that he was too busy to draw Spider Man in addition to his other duties since Kirby was said Evanier always busy 29 127 Neither Lee s nor Kirby s explanation explains why key story elements like the magic ring were dropped Evanier states that the most plausible explanation for the sudden change was that Goodman or one of his assistants decided that Spider Man as drawn and envisioned by Kirby was too similar to the Fly 29 127 Author and Ditko scholar Blake Bell writes that it was Ditko who noted the similarities to the Fly Ditko recalled that Stan called Jack about the Fly adding that d ays later Stan told me I would be penciling the story panel breakdowns from Stan s synopsis It was at this point that the nature of the strip changed Out went the magic ring adult Spider Man and whatever legend ideas that Spider Man story would have contained Lee gave Ditko the premise of a teenager bitten by a spider and developing powers a premise Ditko would expand upon to the point he became what Bell describes as the first work for hire artist of his generation to create and control the narrative arc of his series On the issue of the initial creation Ditko stated I still don t know whose idea was Spider Man 30 Ditko did however view the published version of Spider Man as a separate creation to the one he saw in the five pencilled pages that Kirby had completed To support this Ditko used the analogy of the Kirby Marvel Thor which was based on a name idea of a character in Norse mythology If Marvel s Thor is a valid created work by Jack his creation then why isn t Spider Man by Stan and me valid created work our creation 31 Kirby noted in a 1971 interview that it was Ditko who got Spider Man to roll and the thing caught on because of what he did 32 Lee while claiming credit for the initial idea has acknowledged Ditko s role stating If Steve wants to be called co creator I think he deserves it 33 He has further commented that Ditko s costume design was key to the character s success since the costume completely covers Spider Man s body people of all races could visualize themselves inside the costume and thus more easily identify with the character 18 Commercial success A few months after Spider Man s introduction publisher Goodman reviewed the sales figures for that issue and was shocked to find it was one of the nascent Marvel s highest selling comics 34 97 A solo ongoing series followed beginning with The Amazing Spider Man 1 cover dated March 1963 The title eventually became Marvel s top selling series 8 211 with the character swiftly becoming a cultural icon a 1965 Esquire poll of college campuses found that college students ranked Spider Man and fellow Marvel hero the Hulk alongside Bob Dylan and Che Guevara as their favorite revolutionary icons One interviewee selected Spider Man because he was beset by woes money problems and the question of existence In short he is one of us 8 223 Following Ditko s departure after issue 38 July 1966 John Romita Sr replaced him as penciller and would draw the series for the next several years In 1968 Romita would also draw the character s extra length stories in the comics magazine The Spectacular Spider Man a proto graphic novel designed to appeal to older readers It only lasted for two issues but it represented the first Spider Man spin off publication aside from the original series summer Annuals that began in 1964 35 An early 1970s Spider Man story ultimately led to the revision of the Comics Code Previously the Code forbade the depiction of the use of illegal drugs even negatively However in 1970 the Nixon administration s Department of Health Education and Welfare asked Stan Lee to publish an anti drug message in one of Marvel s top selling titles 8 239 Lee chose the top selling The Amazing Spider Man issues 96 98 May July 1971 feature a story arc depicting the negative effects of drug use In the story Peter Parker s friend Harry Osborn becomes addicted to pills When Spider Man fights the Green Goblin Norman Osborn Harry s father Spider Man defeats him by revealing Harry s drug addiction While the story had a clear anti drug message the Comics Code Authority refused to issue its seal of approval Marvel nevertheless published the three issues without the Comics Code Authority s approval or seal The issues sold so well that the industry s self censorship was undercut and the Code was subsequently revised 8 239 In 1972 a second monthly ongoing series starring Spider Man began Marvel Team Up in which Spider Man was paired with other superheroes and supervillains 36 From that point on there have generally been at least two ongoing Spider Man series at any time In 1976 his second solo series Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider Man began running parallel to the main series 37 A third series featuring Spider Man Web of Spider Man launched in 1985 to replace Marvel Team Up 38 The launch of a fourth monthly title in 1990 the adjectiveless Spider Man with the storyline Torment written and drawn by popular artist Todd McFarlane debuted with several different covers all with the same interior content The various versions combined sold over 3 million copies an industry record at the time Several miniseries one shot issues and loosely related comics have also been published and Spider Man makes frequent cameos and guest appearances in other comic book series 37 39 In 1996 The Sensational Spider Man was created to replace Web of Spider Man 40 In 1998 writer artist John Byrne revamped the origin of Spider Man in the 13 issue limited series Spider Man Chapter One Dec 1998 Oct 1999 similar to Byrne s adding details and some revisions to Superman s origin in DC Comics The Man of Steel 41 At the same time the original The Amazing Spider Man was ended with issue 441 Nov 1998 and The Amazing Spider Man was restarted with vol 2 1 Jan 1999 42 In 2003 Marvel reintroduced the original numbering for The Amazing Spider Man and what would have been vol 2 59 became issue 500 Dec 2003 42 When the primary series The Amazing Spider Man reached issue 545 Dec 2007 Marvel dropped its spin off ongoing series and instead began publishing The Amazing Spider Man three times monthly beginning with 546 548 all January 2008 43 The three times monthly scheduling of The Amazing Spider Man lasted until November 2010 when the comic book was increased from 22 pages to 30 pages each issue and published only twice a month beginning with 648 649 both November 2010 44 45 The following year Marvel launched Avenging Spider Man as the first spin off ongoing series in addition to the still twice monthly The Amazing Spider Man since the previous ones were canceled at the end of 2007 43 The Amazing series temporarily ended with issue 700 in December 2012 and was replaced by The Superior Spider Man which had Doctor Octopus serve as the new Spider Man his mind having taken over Peter Parker s body Superior was an enormous commercial success for Marvel 46 and ran for 31 issues before the real Peter Parker returned in a newly relaunched The Amazing Spider Man 1 in April 2014 47 Following the 2015 Secret Wars crossover event a number of Spider Man related titles were either relaunched or created as part of the All New All Different Marvel event Among them The Amazing Spider Man was relaunched as well and primarily focuses on Peter Parker continuing to run Parker Industries and becoming a successful businessman who is operating worldwide 48 Fictional character biographyEarly years In Forest Hills Queens New York City 49 Midtown High School student Peter Benjamin Parker is a science whiz orphan living with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May ever since his parents Richard and Mary Parker died in plane accident back when Peter was a child leaving his uncle and aunt to care for him they loved Peter as their own son despite that he is their nephew including Peter and Uncle Ben formed their father and son moments together he also became a well educated high school student having won a scholarship in science class and gets higher grades but was socially inept and outcast having been mocked and isolated by his classmates especially his main bully and his peers particularly football star Flash Thompson As depicted in Amazing Fantasy 15 Aug 1962 Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider erroneously classified as an insect in the panel at a science exhibit and now has discovers that he has the incredible superhuman spider powers and abilities which acquires the proportionate strength of a spider the proportionate speed of a spider agility lightning fast reflexes stamina climbing walls and ceilings like a spider and detecting dangers and upcoming threats by using his precognition ability called spider sense 50 Along with heightened athletic powers Peter test out his powers which he easily use it to defeat the heavyweight wrestling champion called The Crusher before being offered by manager to make fortune by becoming a TV superstar Through his native knack for science Peter develops a gadget that lets him fire adhesive webbing of his own design through small wrist mounted barrels and can use his web to web swing across the cities and places Initially seeking to gain on his new abilities Peter creates a red and blue costume and then becomes Spider Man before making his first appearance as a novelty television star However He blithely ignores the chance to stop a fleeing thief his indifference ironically catches up with him when the same criminal later robs and kills his Uncle Ben Spider Man vengefully tracks and overpowers the killer but then he learns in the story s next to last caption With great power there must also come great responsibility which inspires Spider Man to use his spider powers to fight crime by becoming the masked vigilante superhero 51 Despite his superpowers Peter struggles to help his widowed aunt pay the rent is taunted by Flash and as Spider Man engenders the editorial wrath of newspaper publisher J Jonah Jameson 52 53 Spider Man battles his enemies including superpowered and non superpowered supervillains such as his arch enemy and nemesis called the Green Goblin and then Doctor Octopus Sandman Chameleon Lizard Vulture Kraven the Hunter Electro Mysterio and more villains and defeats them one by one 54 but Peter finds himself juggling his personal life and costumed adventures difficult In time Peter graduates from high school 55 and enrolls at Empire State University a fictional institution evoking the real life Columbia University and New York University 56 where he meets roommate and best friend Harry Osborn and girlfriend Gwen Stacy 57 and Aunt May introduces him to Mary Jane Watson 54 58 59 As Peter deals with Harry s drug problems and Harry s father Norman Osborn is revealed to be Spider Man s nemesis the Green Goblin Peter even attempts to give up his costumed identity for a while 60 61 Gwen Stacy s father New York City Police detective Captain George Stacy is accidentally killed during a battle between Spider Man and Doctor Octopus issue 90 November 1970 62 1970s In issue 121 June 1973 54 the Green Goblin throws Gwen Stacy from a tower of either the Brooklyn Bridge as depicted in the art or the George Washington Bridge as given in the text 63 64 She dies during Spider Man s rescue attempt a note on the letters page of issue 125 states It saddens us to say that the whiplash effect she underwent when Spidey s webbing stopped her so suddenly was in fact what killed her 65 The following issue Spider Man vengefully attacks and overpowers the Green Goblin who appears to have killed himself accidentally in the ensuing battle with Spider Man 66 Working through his grief Peter eventually develops tentative feelings toward Mary Jane and the two become confidants rather than lovers 67 A romantic relationship eventually develops with Parker proposing to her in issue 182 July 1978 and being turned down an issue later 68 Parker went on to graduate from college in issue 185 54 and becomes involved with the shy Debra Whitman and the extroverted flirtatious costumed thief Felicia Hardy a k a the Black Cat 69 whom he meets in issue 194 July 1979 54 The Amazing Spider Man 252 May 1984 The black costume debut that brought controversy to many fans The suit was later revealed as an alien symbiote and was used in the creation of the villain Venom cover art by Ron Frenz and Klaus Janson 1980s From 1984 to 1988 Spider Man wore a black costume with a white spider design on his chest The new costume originated in the Secret Wars miniseries on an alien planet where Spider Man participates in a battle between Earth s major superheroes and supervillains 70 He continues wearing the costume when he returns starting in The Amazing Spider Man 252 The change to a longstanding character s design met with controversy with many hardcore comics fans decrying it as tantamount to sacrilege Spider Man s traditional red and blue costume was iconic they argued on par with those of his D C rivals Superman and Batman 71 The creators then revealed the costume was an alien symbiote which Spider Man is able to reject after a difficult struggle 72 though the symbiote returns several times as Venom for revenge 54 Parker proposes to Watson in The Amazing Spider Man 290 July 1987 and she accepts two issues later with the wedding taking place in The Amazing Spider Man Annual 21 1987 promoted with a real life mock wedding using actors at Shea Stadium with Stan Lee officiating on June 5 1987 73 David Michelinie who scripted based on a plot by editor in chief Jim Shooter said in 2007 I didn t think they actually should have gotten married I had actually planned another version one that wasn t used 73 Parker published a book of Spider Man photographs called Webs 74 and returned to his Empire State University graduate studies in biochemistry in 310 Dec 1988 54 1990s In the controversial 75 1990s storyline the Clone Saga a clone of Parker created in 1970s comics by insane scientist Miles Warren a k a the Jackal returns to New York City upon hearing of Aunt May s health worsening The clone had lived incognito as Ben Reilly but now assumes the superhero guise the Scarlet Spider and allies with Parker To the surprise of both new tests indicate Reilly is the original and Parker the clone 76 Complicating matters Watson announces in The Spectacular Spider Man 220 Jan 1995 that she is pregnant with Parker s baby 54 Later however a resurrected Green Goblin Norman Osborn has Watson poisoned causing premature labor and the death of her and Parker s unborn daughter 77 The Green Goblin had switched the results of the clone test in an attempt to destroy Parker s life by making him believe himself to be the clone Reilly is killed while saving Parker in Peter Parker Spider Man 75 Dec 1996 and his body immediately crumbles into dust confirming Reilly was the clone 77 In issue 97 Nov 1998 of the second series titled Peter Parker Spider Man 78 Parker learns his Aunt May was kidnapped by Norman Osborn and her apparent death in The Amazing Spider Man 400 April 1995 had been a hoax 79 80 Shortly afterward in The Amazing Spider Man vol 2 13 454 Jan 2000 Watson is apparently killed in an airplane explosion 81 She turns up alive and well in vol 2 28 469 April 2001 81 but she and Peter become separated in the following issue 82 2000s Babylon 5 creator J Michael Straczynski began writing The Amazing Spider Man illustrated by John Romita Jr beginning with vol 2 30 471 June 2001 Two issues later Parker now employed as a teacher at his old high school meets the enigmatic Ezekiel who possesses similar spider powers and suggests that Parker having gained such abilities might not have been a fluke that Parker has a connection to a totemic spider spirit In vol 2 37 478 Jan 2002 May discovers her nephew Parker is Spider Man leading to a new openness in their relationship 80 Parker and Watson reconcile in vol 2 50 491 April 2003 80 and in 512 Nov 2004 the original issue numbering having returned with 500 Parker learns his late girlfriend Gwen Stacy had had two children with Norman Osborn 83 He joins the superhero team the New Avengers in New Avengers 1 2 After their respective homes are destroyed by a deranged superpowered former high school classmate Parker Watson and May move into Stark Tower and Parker begins working as Tony Stark s assistant while again freelancing for The Daily Bugle and continuing his teaching In the 12 part 2005 story arc The Other Parker undergoes a transformation that evolves his powers In the comic Civil War 2 June 2006 part of the company wide crossover arc of that title the U S government s Superhuman Registration Act leads Spider Man to reveal his true identity publicly A growing unease about the Registration Act prompts him to escape with May and Watson and join the anti registration underground In issue 537 Dec 2006 May is critically wounded by a sniper hired by Wilson Fisk and enters into a coma Parker desperate to save her exhausts all possibilities and makes a pact with the demon lord Mephisto who saves May s life in exchange for Parker and Watson agreeing to have their marriage and all memory of it disappear In this changed reality Spider Man s identity is secret once again and in 545 Jan 2008 Watson returns and is cold toward him That controversial 84 storyline One More Day rolled back much of the fictional continuity at the behest of editor in chief Joe Quesada who said Peter being single is an intrinsic part of the very foundation of the world of Spider Man 84 It caused unusual public friction between Quesada and writer Straczynski who told Joe that I was going to take my name off the last two issues of the story arc but was talked out of doing so 85 At issue with Straczynski s climax to the arc Quesada said was that we didn t receive the story and methodology to the resolution that we were all expecting What made that very problematic is that we had four writers and artists well underway on the sequel arc Brand New Day that were expecting and needed One More Day to end in the way that we had all agreed it would The fact that we had to ask for the story to move back to its original intent understandably made Joe upset and caused some major delays and page increases in the series Also the science that Joe was going to apply to the retcon of the marriage would have made over 30 years of Spider Man books worthless because they never would have had happened I t would have reset way too many things outside of the Spider Man titles We just couldn t go there 85 In this new continuity designed to have very limited repercussions throughout the remainder of the Marvel Universe Parker returns to work at the Daily Bugle which has been renamed The DB under a new publisher 86 He soon switches to the alternative press paper The Front Line 87 J Jonah Jameson becomes the Mayor of New York City in issue 591 June 2008 83 Jameson s estranged father J Jonah Jameson Sr marries May in issue 600 Sept 2009 83 88 During the Secret Invasion by shape shifting extra terrestrials the Skrulls Norman Osborn shoots and kills the Skrull queen Veranke 89 He leverages this widely publicized success positioning himself as the new director of the S H I E L D like paramilitary force H A M M E R to advance his agenda 89 while using his public image to start his own Dark Avengers Norman himself leads the Dark Avengers as the Iron Patriot a suit of armor fashioned by himself after Iron Man s armor with Captain America s colors 90 Harry is approached by Norman with the offer of a job within the Dark Avengers It is later revealed that it is a ruse to coerce Harry into taking the American Son armor whom Norman had planned to kill in order to increase public sympathy When Harry has the option of killing Norman Spider Man says to decapitate him since Norman s healing factor may repair a blow to the head Spider Man also cautions Harry that killing Norman will cause Harry to become the son Norman always wanted Harry instead backs down and turns away from his father forever 91 2010s At Loki s suggestion Norman Osborn creates a rationale to invade Asgard claiming the world poses a national security threat He is however defeated and ends up incarcerated in the Raft penitentiary 92 93 A conflict between Spider Man and Doctor Octopus over Osborn s son ends when it is revealed the child s father is Harry who leaves town to raise him 94 One of Doctor Octopus Octobots managed to swap his and Spider Man s personality causing Peter to become trapped in the Doctor s dying body while he in turn claimed Peter s life for himself Though Peter failed to reverse the change he managed to establish a weak link with the Doctor s mind forcing him to relive all of his memories Otto understands Peter s ideals of power and responsibility and swears to carry on with Peter s life with dignity as a Superior Spider Man 95 96 A portion of Peter survived in his original body in the form of a subconsciousness 97 Later realizing that he failed in his role as the Superior Spider Man Otto willingly allowed Peter to reclaim his body in order to defeat Osborn and save Anna Maria Marconi Otto s love 98 In the aftermath of these events Peter began to amend the relationships damaged by Otto s arrogance and negligence both as Peter Parker and Spider Man He additionally took up the reins of Parker Industries a small company founded by Otto after leaving Horizon Labs 99 Peter soon learned a second person had been bitten by the radioactive spider Cindy Moon 100 Spider Man tracked her down and freed her from a bunker owned by the late Ezekiel Simms 101 Not long after rescuing Cindy who went on to adopt her own superheroic identity as Silk 102 103 Spider Man was approached by a contingent of spider people from all over the Multiverse that banded together to fight the Inheritors a group of psychic vampires who had begun to hunt down the spider totems of other realities 104 During a mission to gather more recruits in A D 2099 the Spider Army stumbled upon another party of spider people led by a version of Otto Octavius 105 Together they neutralized the Inheritors and went their separate ways Peter then stopped another nefarious plan this time put forward by the Jackal 106 After the events of Go Down Swinging Peter s life was plagued with problems on both sides As Spider Man Mayor Fisk publicly supported him condemning all other vigilantes in order to isolate him from his superhero peers As Peter Parker his academic credentials were revoked after being accused of plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation from Octavius resulting in his firing from the Daily Bugle On the other hand Peter became romantically involved again with Mary Jane 107 For a brief time Peter Parker and Spider Man were split into separate beings due to an accident involving the reverse engineered Isotope Genome Accelerator Peter eventually managed to reverse the process and merge his two halves back together before the side effects could worsen and result in their death 108 2020s Further information Last Remains Kindred uses the resurrected Sin Eater s sins to possess Miles Morales Spider Gwen Spider Woman Anya Corazon and Julia Carpenter Doctor Strange who manages to restrain a possessed Silk agrees to help Spider Man However Peter dies when fighting Kindred While dead Peter s consciousness remembered the fateful day of the start of One More Day Kindred is willing to resurrect Peter 109 Personality and themes People often say glibly that Marvel succeeded by blending super hero adventure stories with soap opera What Lee and Ditko actually did in The Amazing Spider Man was to make the series an ongoing novelistic chronicle of the lead character s life Most super heroes had problems no more complex or relevant to their readers lives than thwarting this month s bad guys Parker had far more serious concern in his life coming to terms with the death of a loved one falling in love for the first time struggling to make a living and undergoing crises of conscience Comics historian Peter Sanderson 110 Sally Kempton for the Village Voice opined in 1965 that Spider Man has a terrible identity problem a marked inferiority complex and a fear of women He is anti social sic castration ridden racked with Oedipal guilt and accident prone a functioning neurotic 49 Agonizing over his choices always attempting to do right he is nonetheless viewed with suspicion by the authorities who seem unsure as to whether he is a helpful vigilante or a clever criminal 111 Notes cultural historian Bradford W Wright Spider Man s plight was to be misunderstood and persecuted by the very public that he swore to protect In the first issue of The Amazing Spider Man J Jonah Jameson publisher of the Daily Bugle launches an editorial campaign against the Spider Man menace The resulting negative publicity exacerbates popular suspicions about the mysterious Spider Man and makes it impossible for him to earn any more money by performing Eventually the bad press leads the authorities to brand him an outlaw Ironically Peter finally lands a job as a photographer for Jameson s Daily Bugle 8 212 The mid 1960s stories reflect the political tensions of the time Early 1960s Marvel stories often deal with the Cold War and Communism 8 220 223 As Wright observes From his high school beginnings to his entry into college life Spider Man remained the superhero most relevant to the world of young people Fittingly then his comic book also contained some of the earliest references to the politics of young people In 1968 in the wake of actual militant student demonstrations at Columbia University Peter Parker finds himself in the midst of similar unrest at his Empire State University Peter has to reconcile his natural sympathy for the students with his assumed obligation to combat lawlessness as Spider Man As a law upholding liberal he finds himself caught between militant leftism and angry conservatives 8 234 235 Powers abilities and equipmentSpider Man possesses incredible superhuman spider powers and abilities derived from a mutation after being bitten by a radioactive spider 112 Since the original Stan Lee Steve Ditko stories Spider Man has had the ability to cling to wall surfaces and ceilings to climb walls and ceilings like a spider The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe speculated that this was based on a distance dependent interaction between his body and surfaces known as the van der Waals force 113 though in the 2002 s Spider Man film his hands and feet are lined with tiny clinging cilia in the manner of a real spider s feet Spider Man s other spider powers include superhuman strength speed agility stamina reflexes durability coordination and balance and a precognitive sixth sense referred to as his spider sense which alerts him to danger 112 Spider Man has a healing factor that allows him to recover from injuries sustained during battle 114 In the aftermath of the 1989 Acts of Vengeance storyline Spider Man was said to have superhuman recuperative abilities that sped up his recovery from the exhaustion he suffered in defeating the Tri Sentinel 115 Peter Parker was originally conceived by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko as intellectually gifted but later writers have depicted his intellect at genius level 116 Academically brilliant Peter has expertise in the fields of applied science chemistry physics biology engineering mathematics and mechanics Even Reed Richards the most intelligent individual in the Marvel universe and a prolific scientist in his own right has acknowledged that Peter s knowledge of biology surpasses his own admitting that Peter can think of a problem from a biology perspective where he would be unable to do so since his expertise lies in physics After his years of crime fighting Spider Man has honed his fighting skills into an equivalent of martial arts and hand to hand combat skills that is unique to his spider powers able to hold his own against formidable supervillains such as Green Goblin Doctor Octopus Sandman Chameleon Vulture Mysterio Electro Lizard Scorpion Kraven the Hunter and Venom His fighting style is unique and specific to him and as such it is incredibly difficult to combat against With his talents Peter created his own Spider Man costume to conceal his identity he contrives many devices that complement his powers most notably mechanical web shooters that allow him to shoot webs swing at high speeds throughout the city to help navigate and trap his enemies with his webs during crime fighting as well as with a spider signal as a flashlight and a warning beacon to criminals as Spider Man 112 Thomas Fireheart s scientists among the best in the world are unable to replicate the fluid Peter created while in high school 117 Supporting castMain articles List of Spider Man supporting characters and List of incarnations of Spider Man Spider Man has had a wide range of connected characters during his inception A variant cover art of The Amazing Spider Man vol 3 1 depicts the heads of various Spider Man enemies behind Spider Man as drawn by Kevin Maguire as shown in the center Spider Man has had a large range of supporting characters introduced in the comics that are essential in the issues and storylines that star him After his parents died Peter Parker was raised by his loving aunt May Parker and his uncle and father figure Ben Parker After Uncle Ben is murdered by a burglar Aunt May is virtually Peter s only family and she and Peter are very close 50 J Jonah Jameson is the publisher of the Daily Bugle and Peter Parker s boss A harsh critic of Spider Man he constantly features negative articles about the superhero in his newspaper Despite his role as Jameson s editor and confidant Robbie Robertson is always depicted as a supporter of both Peter Parker and Spider Man 52 Eugene Flash Thompson is commonly depicted as Parker s high school tormentor and bully but in later comic issues he becomes a friend to Peter and adopts his own superhero identity Agent Venom after merging with the Venom symbiote 52 Meanwhile Harry Osborn son of Norman Osborn is most commonly recognized as Peter s best friend although some versions depicted him as his rival 54 Enemies Main article List of Spider Man enemies Writers and artists over the years have established a rogues gallery of supervillains to face Spider Man in comics and in other media As with the hero the majority of the villains powers originate with scientific accidents or the misuse of scientific technology and many have animal themed costumes or powers note 6 The most notable Spider Man villains are listed down below in the ordering of their original chronological appearance Indicates a group Spider Man s enemies Supervillain name Supervillain team name Notable alter ego group member First appearance CreatorChameleon Dmitri Nikolayevich The Amazing Spider Man 1 March 1963 118 119 Stan Lee 118 119 Steve Ditko 118 119 Vulture Adrian Toomes The Amazing Spider Man 2 May 1963 120 121 Stan Lee 120 122 Steve Ditko 120 Doctor Octopus Otto Octavius1 The Amazing Spider Man 3 July 1963 119 Stan Lee 123 124 Steve Ditko 15 124 Sandman William Baker Flint Marko The Amazing Spider Man 4 Sept 1963 125 126 Stan Lee 125 126 Steve Ditko 125 126 Lizard Curt Connors The Amazing Spider Man 6 Nov 1963 127 128 129 Stan Lee 127 128 129 Steve Ditko 127 128 129 Electro Max Dillon The Amazing Spider Man 9 Feb 1964 130 131 Stan Lee 132 Steve Ditko 132 Mysterio Quentin Beck The Amazing Spider Man 13 June 1964 133 Stan Lee 133 134 Steve Ditko 133 134 Green Goblin 135 Norman Osborn2Harry Osborn 136 The Amazing Spider Man 14 July 1964 135 Stan Lee 135 137 Steve Ditko 135 137 Kraven the Hunter Sergei Kravinoff The Amazing Spider Man 15 Aug 1964 137 138 Stan Lee 137 Steve Ditko 137 Sinister Six 139 List of members The Amazing Spider Man Annual 1 1964 Stan Lee 140 Steve Ditko 140 Scorpion Mac Gargan The Amazing Spider Man 20 Jan 1965 Stan Lee 141 Steve Ditko 141 Rhino Aleksei Sytsevich The Amazing Spider Man 41 Oct 1966 142 Stan Lee 143 John Romita Sr 143 Shocker Herman Schultz The Amazing Spider Man 46 March 1967 144 Stan Lee 145 John Romita Sr 145 Kingpin Wilson Fisk The Amazing Spider Man 50 July 1967 146 147 Stan Lee 148 John Romita Sr 148 Morbius 149 Michael Morbius The Amazing Spider Man 101 Jan 1971 150 Roy Thomas 150 Gil Kane 151 Black Cat Felicia Hardy The Amazing Spider Man 194 July 1979 152 Marv WolfmanKeith Pollard 152 Hobgoblin Roderick KingsleyJason Macendale 153 Ned Leeds 153 The Amazing Spider Man 238 March 1983 Roger Stern 154 155 John Romita Sr 154 156 Venom Eddie Brock3 The Amazing Spider Man 300 May 1988 15 157 158 David Michelinie 159 Todd McFarlane 160 Carnage Cletus Kasady The Amazing Spider Man 361 April 1992 161 David Michelinie 162 163 Erik Larsen 164 Mark Bagley 162 Unlike most superheroes Spider Man does not have a single villain with whom he has come into conflict the most Instead he is often regarded as having three archenemies and it can be debated as to which one is the worst 165 Doctor Octopus a k a Doc Ock is a highly intelligent mad scientist who utilizes four mechanical appendages for both movement and combat He has been described as Spider Man s greatest enemy and the man Peter Parker might have become if he had not been raised with a sense of responsibility 15 166 Doc Ock is infamous for defeating him the first time in battle and for almost marrying Peter s Aunt May He is also the core leader of the Sinister Six and at one point adopted the Master Planner alias If This Be My Destiny 167 Later depictions revealed him in Peter Parker s body where he was the titular character for a while 166 The Norman Osborn version of the Green Goblin is most commonly regarded as Spider Man s archenemy 165 168 169 While Norman is usually portrayed as an amoral industrialist and the head of the Oscorp scientific corporation the Goblin is a psychopathic alternate personality born after Norman s exposore to some unstable chemicals that also increased his strength and agility The Goblin is a Halloween themed villain dressing up like an actual goblin and utilizing a large arsenal of high tech weapons including a glider and pumpkin shaped explosives Unlike most villains who only aim to kill Spider Man the Goblin also targeted his loved ones and showed no remorse in killing them as long as it caused pain to Spider Man therefore making him not only Spider Man s worst enemy but also Peter Parker s His most infamous feat is killing Spider Man s girlfriend in what became one of the most famous Spider Man stories of all time and helped end the Silver Age of Comic Books and begin the Bronze Age of Comic Books 165 While the Goblin was killed in the same story he returned in the 1990s to plague Spider Man once again committing more heinous acts such as being involved in the murder of Aunt May He also came into conflict with other heroes such as the Avengers 170 Norman is sometimes depicted as an enemy of Spider Man even when not being the Green Goblin 171 The Eddie Brock incarnation of Venom is often regarded as Spider Man s deadliest foe and has been described as an evil mirror version of Spider Man in many ways 157 119 165 He is also among Spider Man s most popular villains 172 Originally a reporter who grew to despise Spider Man Eddie later came into contact with the Venom symbiote which had been rejected by Spider Man The symbiote merged with Eddie and gave him the same powers as Spider Man in addition to making him immune to the web slinger s spider sense Venom s main goal is usually to ruin Peter Parker s life and mess with his head in any way he can 160 Despite this Venom is not a traditional criminal as he is only interested in hurting Spider Man and does not engage in criminal acts lacking the typical supervillain desires for wealth and power The character also has a sense of honor and justice and later starred in his own comic book stories where he is depicted as an antihero and has a desire to protect innocent people from harm On several occasions he and Spider Man even put their differences aside and became allies 157 173 Romantic interests Peter Parker s romantic interests range between his first crush fellow high school student Liz Allan 52 to having his first date with Betty Brant 174 secretary to the Daily Bugle newspaper publisher J Jonah Jameson After his breakup with Betty Brant Parker eventually falls in love with his college girlfriend Gwen Stacy 54 57 daughter of New York City Police Department detective Captain George Stacy both of whom are later killed by supervillain enemies of Spider Man 62 Mary Jane Watson eventually became Peter s best friend and then his wife 73 Felicia Hardy the Black Cat is a reformed cat burglar who had been Spider Man s sole superhuman girlfriend and partner at one point 69 Alternate versions of Spider Man Main article Alternative versions of Spider Man Within the Marvel Universe there exists a multiverse with many variations of Spider Men 175 An early character included in the 1980s is the fictional anthropomorphic animal parody of Spider Man in pig form named Spider Ham Peter Porker 176 Many imprints of Spider Men were created like the futuristic version of Spider Man in Marvel 2099 named Miguel O Hara In the MC2 imprint Peter marries Mary Jane and has a daughter named Mayday Parker who carries on Spider Man s legacy and Marvel Noir has a 1930s version of Peter Parker 175 177 178 Other themed versions exist within the early 2000s such as a Marvel Mangaverse version and an Indian version from Spider Man India named Pavitr Prabhakar 175 179 Ultimate Spider Man was a popular modern retelling of Peter Parker The version of Parker would later be depicted as being killed off and replaced by an Afro Latino Spider Man named Miles Morales 180 The storyline Spider Verse brought back many alternate takes on Spider Man and introduced many newly inspired ones such as an alternate world where Gwen Stacy gets bitten by a radioactive spider instead along with a British themed version named Spider UK called Billy Braddock from the Captain Britain Corps 177 181 Cultural impact and legacy Graph image depicting Spider Man as the leading superhero in merchandise retail sales worldwide in 2016 in millions 182 In The Creation of Spider Man comic book writer editor and historian Paul Kupperberg calls the character s superpowers nothing too original what was original was that outside his secret identity he was a nerdy high school student 183 5 Going against typical superhero fare Spider Man included heavy doses of soap opera and elements of melodrama Kupperberg feels that Lee and Ditko had created something new in the world of comics the flawed superhero with everyday problems This idea spawned a comics revolution 183 6 The insecurity and anxieties in Marvel s early 1960s comic books such as The Amazing Spider Man The Incredible Hulk The Fantastic Four and The X Men ushered in a new type of superhero very different from the certain and all powerful superheroes before them and changed the public s perception of them 184 Spider Man has become one of the most recognizable fictional characters in the world and has been used to sell toys games cereal candy soap and many other products 185 Spider Man has often been used as the company mascot When Marvel became the first comic book company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1991 The Wall Street Journal announced Spider Man is coming to Wall Street the event was in turn promoted with an actor in a Spider Man costume accompanying Stan Lee to the Stock Exchange 8 254 Since 1962 hundreds of millions of comics featuring the character have been sold around the world 186 Spider Man is the world s most profitable superhero 187 In 2014 global retail sales of licensed products related to Spider Man reached approximately 1 3 billion 188 Comparatively this amount exceeds the global licensing revenue of Batman Superman and the Avengers combined 187 Spider Man is also one of the highest grossing franchise titles being the highest grossing American comic book superhero 189 190 est 25 6 billion worldwide 191 192 U S President Barack Obama pretending to be webbed up by a boy dressed in a Spider Man costume inside the White House Spider Man joined the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1987 to 1998 as one of the balloon floats 193 designed by John Romita Sr 194 one of the character s signature artists A new different Spider Man balloon float also appeared from 2009 to 2014 193 When Marvel wanted to issue a story dealing with the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks the company chose the December 2001 issue of The Amazing Spider Man 195 In 2006 Spider Man garnered major media coverage with the revelation of the character s secret identity 196 an event detailed in a full page story in the New York Post before the issue containing the story was even released 197 In 2008 Marvel announced plans to release a series of educational comics the following year in partnership with the United Nations depicting Spider Man alongside the UN Peacekeeping Forces to highlight UN peacekeeping missions 198 A BusinessWeek article listed Spider Man as one of the top 10 most intelligent fictional characters in American comics 199 In 2015 the Supreme Court of the United States decided Kimble v Marvel Entertainment LLC a case concerning royalties on a patent for an imitation web shooter The opinion for the Court by Justice Elena Kagan included several Spider Man references concluding with the statement that with great power there must also come great responsibility 200 Spider Man has become a subject of scientific inquiry In 1987 researchers at Loyola University conducted a study into the utility of Spider Man comics for informing children and parents about issues relating to child abuse 201 Reception The culmination of nearly every superhero that came before him Spider Man is the hero of heroes He s got fun and cool powers but not on the god like level of Thor He s just a normal guy with girlfriend problems and money issues so he s more relatable than playboy billionaire Iron Man And he s an awkward teenager not a wizened adult like Captain America Not too hot and not too cold Spider Man is just right IGN staff on placing Spider Man as the number one hero of Marvel 202 In 2005 Bravo s Ultimate Super Heroes Vixens and Villains TV series declared that Spider Man was the number 1 superhero 203 Empire magazine ranked him the fifth greatest comic book character of all time 204 Wizard magazine placed Spider Man as the third greatest comic book character on their website 205 In 2011 Spider Man placed third on IGN s Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time behind DC Comics characters Superman and Batman 202 and sixth in their 2012 list of The Top 50 Avengers 206 In 2014 IGN identified Spider Man the greatest Marvel Comics character of all time 207 A 2015 poll at Comic Book Resources named Spider Man the greatest Marvel character of all time 208 IGN described him as the common everyman that represents many normal people but also noted his uniqueness compared to many top tiered superheroes with his many depicted flaws as a superhero IGN noted that despite being one of the most tragic superheroes of all time he is one of the most fun and snarky superheroes in existence 202 Empire praised Spider man s always present sense of humor and wisecracks in the face of the many tragedies he faces The magazine website appraised the depiction of his iconic superhero poses describing it as a top artist s dream 205 George Marston of Newsarama called Spider Man s origin the greatest origin story of all time opining that Spider Man s origin combines all of the most classic aspects of pathos tragedy and scientific wonder into the perfect blend for a superhero origin 209 Real life comparisons Real life people who have been compared to Spider Man for their climbing feats include In 1981 skyscraper safety activist Dan Goodwin wearing a Spider Man suit scaled the Sears Tower in Chicago Illinois the Renaissance Tower in Dallas Texas and the John Hancock Center in Chicago 210 Alain Robert nicknamed Spider Man is a rock and urban climber who has scaled more than 70 tall buildings using his hands and feet without using additional devices He sometimes wears a Spider Man suit during his climbs In May 2003 he was paid approximately 18 000 to climb the 95 metre 312 ft Lloyd s building to promote the premiere of the movie Spider Man on the British television channel Sky Movies The Human Spider alias Bill Strother scaled the Lamar Building in Augusta Georgia in 1921 211 In Argentina criminals that climb buildings and trespass into private property through the open balconies are said to use the Spider Man method in Spanish el Hombre Arana 212 213 In other mediaSpider Man in film Tobey Maguire left Andrew Garfield center and Tom Holland right have portrayed Spider Man in film Main article Spider Man in other media Further information Spider Man in film Spider Man in television Spider Man in literature and List of video games featuring Spider Man Spider Man has appeared in comics cartoons films video games coloring books novels records children s books and theme park rides 185 On television he first starred in the ABC animated series Spider Man 1967 1970 214 Spidey Super Stories 1974 1977 on PBS and the CBS live action series The Amazing Spider Man 1978 1979 starring Nicholas Hammond Other animated series featuring the superhero include the syndicated Spider Man 1981 1982 Spider Man and His Amazing Friends 1981 1983 Fox Kids Spider Man 1994 1998 Spider Man Unlimited 1999 2000 Spider Man The New Animated Series 2003 The Spectacular Spider Man 2008 2009 citation needed Ultimate Spider Man 2012 2017 215 Disney XD s Spider Man 2017 2020 and Spidey and His Amazing Friends 2021 present citation needed A tokusatsu series featuring Spider Man was produced by Toei and aired in Japan It is commonly referred to by its Japanese pronunciation Supaida Man 216 Spider Man also appeared in other print forms besides the comics including novels children s books and the daily newspaper comic strip The Amazing Spider Man which debuted in January 1977 with the earliest installments written by Stan Lee and drawn by John Romita Sr 217 Spider Man has been adapted to other media including games toys collectibles and miscellaneous memorabilia and has appeared as the main character in numerous computer and video games on over 15 gaming platforms citation needed Spider Man was featured in a trilogy of live action films directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire as the titular superhero The first Spider Man film of the trilogy was released on May 3 2002 followed by Spider Man 2 2004 and Spider Man 3 2007 A third sequel was originally scheduled to be released in 2011 however Sony later decided to reboot the franchise with a new director and cast The reboot titled The Amazing Spider Man was released on July 3 2012 directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield as the new Spider Man 218 219 220 It was followed by The Amazing Spider Man 2 2014 221 222 In 2015 Sony and Disney made a deal for Spider Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe 223 Tom Holland made his debut as Spider Man in the MCU film Captain America Civil War 2016 before later starring in his standalone film Spider Man Homecoming 2017 directed by Jon Watts 224 225 Holland reprised his role as Spider Man in Avengers Infinity War 2018 226 227 Avengers Endgame 2019 228 Spider Man Far From Home 2019 229 and Spider Man No Way Home 2021 Maguire and Garfield reprise their roles as past Spider Men in the latter film 230 Jake Johnson voiced an alternate universe version of Spider Man in the animated film Spider Man Into the Spider Verse 231 and will reprise the role in its sequel in Spider Man Across the Spider Verse 2023 Chris Pine also voiced another version of Peter Parker in Into the Spider Verse 232 Following a brief contract dispute over financial terms in 2019 Sony and Disney reached a deal to allow Spider Man to return to the MCU with the two studios jointly producing Spider Man films 233 A Broadway musical Spider Man Turn Off the Dark began previews on November 14 2010 at the Foxwoods Theatre on Broadway with the official opening night on June 14 2011 234 235 The music and lyrics were written by Bono and The Edge of the rock group U2 with a book by Julie Taymor Glen Berger Roberto Aguirre Sacasa 236 Turn Off the Dark is currently the most expensive musical in Broadway history costing an estimated 70 million 237 In addition the show s unusually high running costs are reported to have been about 1 2 million per week 238 In the fine arts and starting with the Pop Art period and on a continuing basis since the 1960s the character of Spider Man has been appropriated by multiple visual artists and incorporated into contemporary artwork most notably by Andy Warhol 239 240 Roy Lichtenstein 241 Mel Ramos 242 Dulce Pinzon 243 Mr Brainwash 244 F Lennox Campello 245 Vijay 246 and others which See alsoList of Spider Man storylines List of Marvel Comics superhero debuts With great power comes great responsibility The Leopard from Lime StreetNotes Lee Stan Mair George 2002 Excelsior The Amazing Life of Stan Lee Fireside ISBN 978 0 684 87305 3 Detroit Free Press interview with Stan Lee quoted in The Steve Ditko Reader by Greg Theakston Pure Imagination Brooklyn NY ISBN 1 56685 011 8 p 12 unnumbered He gave me 1 000 reasons why Spider Man would never work Nobody likes spiders it sounds too much like Superman and how could a teenager be a superhero Then I told him I wanted the character to be a very human guy someone who makes mistakes who worries who gets acne has trouble with his girlfriend things like that Goodman replied He s a hero He s not an average man I said No we make him an average man who happens to have super powers that s what will make him good He told me I was crazy Ditko Steve 2000 Roy Thomas ed Alter Ego The Comic Book Artist Collection TwoMorrows Publishing ISBN 978 1 893905 06 1 Stan said a new Marvel hero would be introduced in 15 of what became titled Amazing Fantasy He would be called Spider Man Jack would do the penciling and I was to ink the character At this point still Stan said Spider Man would be a teenager with a magic ring which could transform him into an adult hero Spider Man I said it sounded like the Fly which Joe Simon had done for Archie Comics Stan called Jack about it but I don t know what was discussed I never talked to Jack about Spider Man Later at some point I was given the job of drawing Spider Man Jack Kirby in Shop Talk Jack Kirby Will Eisner s Spirit Magazine 39 February 1982 Spider Man was discussed between Joe Simon and myself It was the last thing Joe and I had discussed We had a strip called The Silver Spider The Silver Spider was going into a magazine called Black Magic Black Magic folded with Crestwood Simon amp Kirby s 1950s comics company and we were left with the script I believe I said this could become a thing called Spider Man see a superhero character I had a lot of faith in the superhero character that they could be brought back and I said Spider Man would be a fine character to start with But Joe had already moved on So the idea was already there when I talked to Stan Simon Joe with Jim Simon The Comic Book Makers Crestwood II 1990 ISBN 1 887591 35 4 There were a few holes in Jack s never dependable memory For instance there was no Black Magic involved at all Jack brought in the Spider Man logo that I had loaned to him before we changed the name to The Silver Spider Kirby laid out the story to Lee about the kid who finds a ring in a spiderweb gets his 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