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Amazing Fantasy: Spider-Man Is A Fictional

Spider-Man was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 in 1962. He is really Peter Parker, a teenager from Queens who gains spider-like abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider. As Spider-Man, Peter deals with struggles of adolescence and financial issues while fighting villains like Doctor Octopus and the Green Goblin. Spider-Man was groundbreaking as one of the first major superheroes who was also a teenager dealing with everyday problems. He has since appeared in many comic books, movies, TV shows, and other media, becoming one of the most popular superheroes of all time.

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Amazing Fantasy: Spider-Man Is A Fictional

Spider-Man was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 in 1962. He is really Peter Parker, a teenager from Queens who gains spider-like abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider. As Spider-Man, Peter deals with struggles of adolescence and financial issues while fighting villains like Doctor Octopus and the Green Goblin. Spider-Man was groundbreaking as one of the first major superheroes who was also a teenager dealing with everyday problems. He has since appeared in many comic books, movies, TV shows, and other media, becoming one of the most popular superheroes of all time.

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Spider-Man is a fictional superhero created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve

Ditko. He first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) in the
Silver Age of Comic Books. He appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics,
as well as in a number of movies, television shows, and video game adaptations set in the Marvel
Universe. In the stories, Spider-Man is the alias of Peter Parker, 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 accompanied him with many supporting characters, such as J. Jonah Jameson, Harry
Osborn, Max Modell, romantic interests Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson, and foes such as
Doctor Octopus, the Green Goblin and Venom. His origin story has him acquiring spider-related
abilities after a bite from a radioactive spider; these include clinging to surfaces, superhuman
strength and agility, and detecting danger with his "spider-sense." He then builds wrist-mounted
"web-shooter" devices that shoot artificial spider-webbing of his own design.

When Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were
usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist. The Spider-Man series broke ground
by featuring Peter Parker, a high school student from Queens behind Spider-Man's secret identity
and with whose "self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness" young readers could
relate.[9] 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 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 Parker.

Marvel has featured Spider-Man 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 troubled but outgoing college student, to
married high school teacher to, in the late 2000s, a single freelance photographer. In the 2010s,
he joins the Avengers. Spider-Man's nemesis 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.[10] 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 is later brought into
mainstream continuity, where he sometimes works alongside Peter.

Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes.[11] He has
appeared in countless forms of media, including several animated and live action television
series, syndicated newspaper comic strips, and in a 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.[12] In films, Spider-Man has been portrayed by actors Tobey
Maguire, Andrew Garfield,[13] 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.
Reeve Carney starred originally as Spider-Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn
Off the Dark.[14] 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.

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