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Spider-Man

From The Amazing Spider-Man #547 (Mar. 2008)
Art by Steve McNiven and Dexter Vines
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First
appearance
Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug.1962)
Created by Stan Lee
Steve Ditko
In-story information
Alter ego Peter Benjamin Parker (secret identity)
Spider-Man (superhero identity)
Species Human Mutate
Team
affiliations
Avengers
Future Foundation
Heroes for Hire
New Fantastic Four
Notable aliases Ricochet, Dusk, Prodigy, Hornet,Ben
Reilly/Scarlet Spider
Abilities
Superhuman strength,speed, agility,
stamina, reflexes, and endurance
Ability to cling to most surfaces
Regenerative healing factor
Able to shoot very strong spider-web
strings from wrists via web-shooters
Precognitive Spider-Sense
Genius-level intellect
Master hand-to-hand combatant
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero that
appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan
Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (cover-
datedAug. 1962). Lee and Ditko conceived the character as an orphan being raised by
his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and as ateenager, having to deal with the normal struggles
of adolescence in addition to those of a costumed crimefighter. Spider-Man's creators
gave him super strength and agility, the ability to cling to most surfaces, shoot spider-
webs using wrist-mounted devices of his own invention (which he called "web-
shooters"), and react to danger quickly with his "spider-sense", enabling him to combat
his foes.
When Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic
books were usually relegated to the role ofsidekick to the protagonist. The Spider-Man
series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, a teenage high school student and
person behind Spider-Man's secret identity to whose "self-obsessions with rejection,
inadequacy, and loneliness" young readers could relate.
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Unlike previous teen heroes
such as Bucky and Robin, Spider-Man did not benefit from being the protg of any
adult superhero mentors like Captain America and Batman, and thus had to learn for
himself that "with great power there must also come great responsibility"a line
included in a text box in the final panel of the first Spider-Man story, but
later retroactively attributed to his guardian, the late Uncle Ben.