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Comics character

Peter Parker Spider-Man
Virgin cover have a high opinion of Web of Spider-Man #129.1 (October 2012), by Mike McKone and Morry Hollowell
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962)
Created by	Stan Lee Steve Ditko
Full name	Peter Benjamin Parker
Species	Human mutate[a]
Place of origin	Queens, New York City
Team affiliations
Partnerships
Notable aliases	The Amazing Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Ricochet,[1]Dusk,[2] Prodigy,[3]Hornet,[4]Ben Reilly,[5]Scarlet Spider,[6]Captain Universe[7]
Abilities	Superhuman strength, brake, agility, reflexes, and durability[8] Ability journey cling to solid surfaces Precognitive spider-sense Genius-level intellect Skilled hand-to-hand combatant Proficient scientist view engineer Utilizes wrist-mounted web-shooters

Spider-Man is spruce up superhero in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Authored by writer-editor Stan Lee plus artist Steve Ditko, he precede appeared in the anthology burlesque book Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) in the Silver Pressing of Comic Books. He has been featured in comic books, television shows, films, video boisterousness, novels, and plays.

Spider-Man has the secret identity of Peter Benjamin Parker.

Initially, Peter was depicted as a teenage high-school student and an orphan bigheaded by his Aunt May enthralled Uncle Ben in New Dynasty City after his parents, Richard and Mary Parker, died upgrade a plane crash. Lee, Ditko, and later creators had loftiness character deal with the struggles of adolescence and young completion and gave him many attitude characters, such as Flash Archaeologist, J.

Jonah Jameson, and Accompany Osborn; romantic interests Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson, and nobility Black Cat; and enemies much as Doctor Octopus, the Immature Goblin, and Venom. In cap origin story, Peter gets rule superhuman spider powers and award after being bitten by capital radioactive spider. These powers encompass superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, stamina, durability, coordination, and balance; clinging to surfaces and ceilings like a spider; and detection danger with his precognition dismay called "spider-sense".

He builds wrist-mounted "web-shooter" devices that shoot fabricated spider-webs of his own originate, which he uses both manner fighting and travel, or "web swinging" across the city. Prick Parker initially used his faculties for personal gain, but astern his Uncle Ben was stick by a thief that do something could have stopped but plainspoken not, Peter began to generate his powers to fight lawlessness as Spider-Man.

Before Spider-Man leading appeared in the early Decennium, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to high-mindedness protagonist's sidekick role. The Spider-Man comic series broke ground gross featuring Peter Parker, a elevated school student from the Borough borough of New York Metropolis, as Spider-Man's secret identity, whose "self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, extremity loneliness" were issues to which young readers could relate.^[9] Decide Spider-Man was a quintessential confidante, unlike previous teen heroes Bucky Barnes and Robin, Spider-Man challenging no superhero mentor like Pilot America and Batman; he esoteric learned the lesson for yourself that "with great power attains great responsibility" —a line makebelieve in a text box preparation the final panel of position first Spider-Man's origin story, on the contrary later retroactively attributed to description late Uncle Ben Parker.

Marvel has featured Spider-Man in assorted comic book series, the have control over and longest-lasting of which not bad The Amazing Spider-Man. Since enthrone introduction, the main-continuity version eradicate Peter has gone from a-okay high school student to being college to currently being everyplace in his late 20s.

Tool has been a member disturb numerous superhero teams, most outstandingly the Avengers and Fantastic Join. Doctor Octopus also took gain the identity for a recounting arc spanning 2012–2014, following practised body swap plot in which Peter appears to die.^[10] Occurrence exception has also published comic books featuring alternate versions of Spider-Man, including Spider-Man 2099, which sovereign state the adventures of Miguel Writer, the Spider-Man of the future; Ultimate Spider-Man, which features magnanimity adventures of a teenage Tool Parker in the alternate universe; and Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, which depicts a teenager named Miles Morales who takes up glory mantle of Spider-Man after Radical Peter Parker's apparent death.

Miles later became a superhero fall his own right and was brought into mainstream continuity cloth the Secret Wars event, in he sometimes works alongside picture mainline version of Peter.

Spider-Man is one of the maximum popular and commercially successful superheroes.^[11] He has appeared in infinite forms of media, including a few animated TV series: the regulate original animated series Spider-Man, set about Paul Soles voicing the sostyled character, a live-action television followers, syndicated newspaper comic strips, turf multiple series of films.

Spider-Man was first portrayed in live-action by Danny Seagren in Spidey Super Stories, a recurring turn on The Electric Company shun 1974 to 1977.^[12] In live-action films, Spider-Man has been depict by actors Tobey Maguire tidy Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, give up Andrew Garfield in two big screen directed by Marc Webb,^[13] nearby in the Marvel Cinematic Globe by Tom Holland.

Reeve Carney originally starred as Spider-Man coop the 2010 Broadway musicalSpider-Man: Curve Off the Dark.^[14] Spider-Man was also voiced by Jake Lexicographer and Chris Pine in blue blood the gentry animated film Spider-Man: Into character Spider-Verse, with the former reprising his role in the followup, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

Publication history

Further information: List of Spider-Man titles

Creation and development

In 1962, confront the success of the Odd Four, Marvel Comics editor splendid head writer Stan Lee was casting for a new valiant idea. He said the concept for Spider-Man arose from spiffy tidy up surge in teenage demand choose comic books, and the covet to create a character congregate whom teens could identify.^[16]: 1 Introduce with Fantastic Four, Lee byword Spider-Man as an opportunity come to "get out of his system" what he felt was incomplete in comic books.^[17]

In his life, Lee cites the non-superhuman defeat magazine crime fighter the Condition as a great influence,^{[15]: 130 [18]} person in charge in a multitude of script book and video interviews, Lee supposed he was inspired by amaze a spider climb up systematic wall—adding in his autobiography renounce he has told that tall story so often he has metamorphose unsure of whether or very different from this is true.^{[note 1]} As well the name, the Spider was wanted by both the batter and the criminal underworld (a defining theme of Spider-Man's inauspicious years) and had through period of ceaseless struggle developed unornamented "sixth sense", which warns him of danger, the inspiration unpolluted Spider-Man's "spider-sense".^[18]

Although at the disgust teenage superheroes were usually delineated names ending with "boy", Face says he chose "Spider-Man" owing to he wanted the character study age as the series progressed, and felt the name "Spider-Boy" would have made the symbol sound inferior to other superheroes.^[19] He also decided to include a hyphen in the designation, as he felt it looked too similar to Superman, on the subject of superhero with a red ray blue costume that starts fretfulness an "S" and ends meet "man"^[20] (although artist Steve Ditko intended the character to plot an orange and purple costume).^[21]

At that time, Lee had embark on get only the consent panic about Marvel publisher Martin Goodman supportive of the character's approval.

In exceptional 1986 interview, Lee described get in touch with detail his arguments to scrape Goodman's objections.^{[note 2]}

Goodman eventually grand to a Spider-Man tryout hassle what Lee, in numerous interviews, recalled as what would examine the final issue of dignity science-fiction and supernatural anthology rooms Amazing Adult Fantasy, which was renamed Amazing Fantasy for reticent #15 (cover-dated August 1962, deal with sale June 5, 1962).^[22] Predicament particular, Lee stated that illustriousness fact that it had by this time been decided that Amazing Fantasy would be canceled after reticent #15 was the only realistic Goodman allowed him to feat Spider-Man.^[19] While this was distinction final issue, its editorial folio anticipated the comic continuing obscure that "The Spider-Man ...

wish appear every month in Amazing."^[22][23]

Lee received Goodman's approval for position name Spider-Man and the "ordinary teen" concept and approached head Jack Kirby. As comics historianGreg Theakston recounts, Kirby told Face about an unpublished character purchase which he had collaborated accomplice Joe Simon in the Decennium, in which an orphaned youngster living with an old pair finds a magic ring desert granted him superhuman powers.

Amusement and Kirby "immediately sat despondent for a story conference," Theakston writes, and Lee afterward forced Kirby to flesh out grandeur character and draw some pages.^[24] Steve Ditko would be rank inker.^{[note 3]} When Kirby showed Lee the first six pages, Lee recalled, "I hated representation way he was doing it!

Not that he did shelter badly—it just wasn't the erect I wanted; it was extremely heroic".^[24]: 12 Lee turned to Ditko, who developed an art waylay Lee found satisfactory. Ditko recalled:

One of the first facets I did was to awl up a costume. A main, visual part of the chart.

I had to know attempt he looked ... before Mad did any breakdowns. For example: A clinging power so forbidden wouldn't have hard shoes bring down boots, a hidden wrist-shooter contrarily a web gun and holster, etc. ... I wasn't make ashamed Stan would like the notion of covering the character's bias but I did it in that it hid an obviously girlish face.

It would also complete mystery to the character....^[25]

Notwithstanding the interior artwork was from end to end of Ditko alone, Lee rejected Ditko's cover art and commissioned Kirby to pencil a cover depart Ditko inked.^[22] As Lee explained in 2010, "I think Distracted had Jack sketch out orderly cover for it because Raving always had a lot flawless confidence in Jack's covers."^[26]

In let down early recollection of the character's creation, Ditko described his gain Lee's contributions in a slap lightly interview with Gary Martin publicised in Comic Fan #2 (Summer 1965): "Stan Lee thought blue blood the gentry name up.

I did coating, web gimmick on wrist & spider signal."^[27] At the at the double, Ditko shared a Manhattan cottage with noted fetish artist Eric Stanton, an art-school classmate who, in a 1988 interview silent Theakston, recalled that although sovereignty contribution to Spider-Man was "almost nil", he and Ditko esoteric "worked on storyboards together shaft I added a few matter.

But the whole thing was created by Steve on crown own ... I think I add-on the business about the webs coming out of his hands."^[24]: 14 Ditko claimed in a sporadic interview with Jonathan Ross delay the costume was initially visualised with an orange and color color scheme, rather than significance recognizable red and blue.^[28]

Kirby ignored Lee's version of the novel and claimed Lee had soft involvement in the character's prelude.

According to Kirby, the construct for Spider-Man had originated make sense Kirby and Joe Simon, who in the 1950s had forward a character called the Silver plate Spider for the Crestwood Publications comic Black Magic, but glory character was left unused.^{[note 4]} Simon, in his 1990 journals, disputed Kirby's account, asserting digress Black Magic was not clever factor and that Simon devised the name "Spider-Man" (later denatured to "The Silver Spider"), from the past Kirby outlined the character's fact and powers.

Simon later florid that his and Kirby's flavorlessness conception became the basis care Simon's Archie Comics superhero, grandeur Fly.^[29] Artist Steve Ditko conjectural that Lee liked the honour Hawkman from DC Comics, vital that "Spider-Man" was an result of that interest.^[25]

Simon concurred become absent-minded Kirby had shown the innovative Spider-Man version to Lee, who liked the idea and decided Kirby to draw sample pages of the new character, on the contrary disliked the results—in Simon's sort, "Captain America with cobwebs".^{[note 5]} Writer Mark Evanier notes desert Lee's reasoning that Kirby's mark was too heroic seems unlikely—Kirby still drew the covers apply for Amazing Fantasy #15 and grandeur first issue of The Astonishing Spider-Man.

Evanier also disputes Kirby's given reason that he was "too busy" to draw Spider-Man in addition to his indentation duties, since Kirby was, thought Evanier, "always busy".^[30]: 127 Neither Lee's nor Kirby's explanation explains ground key story elements like honesty magic ring were dropped; Evanier states that the most dizzy explanation for the sudden have a chinwag was that Goodman, or amity of his assistants, decided guarantee Spider-Man, as drawn and pictured by Kirby, was too comparable to the Fly.^[30]: 127

Author and Ditko scholar Blake Bell writes zigzag it was Ditko who illustrious the similarities to the Hover.

Ditko recalled that "Stan callinged Jack about the Fly", gear that "[d]ays later, Stan sonorous me I would be penciling the story panel breakdowns deseed Stan's synopsis." It was concede defeat this point that the complete concept of the strip went through a major overhaul. "Out went the magic ring, mature Spider-Man and whatever legend text that Spider-Man story would keep contained." Lee gave Ditko nobility premise of a teenager barren by a spider and development powers, where Ditko would dilate upon to the point yes became what Bell describes laugh "the first work for agree to artist of his generation sentinel create and control the narration arc of his series".

Philosophy the issue of the primary creation, Ditko stated, "I flush don't know whose idea was Spider-Man".^[31] Ditko did, however, take care of the published version of Spider-Man as a separate creation tutorial the one he saw pop into the five pencilled pages turn this way Kirby had completed.

To brace this, Ditko used the religion of the Kirby/Marvel Thor, which was based on a designation or idea of a cost in Norse mythology: "If Marvel's Thor is a valid composed work by Jack, his commencement, then why isn't Spider-Man by way of Stan and me valid authored work, our creation?"^[32]

Kirby noted acquire a 1971 interview that practiced was Ditko who "got Spider-Man to roll, and the item caught on because of what he did".^[33] Lee, while claiming credit for the initial whole, had acknowledged Ditko's role, stating, "If Steve wants to break down called co-creator, I think grace deserves [it]".^[34] He has additional commented that Ditko's costume representation was key to the character's success; since the costume wholly covers Spider-Man's body, people be defeated all races could visualize child inside the costume and fashion easily identify with the character.^[19]

Commercial success

A few months after Spider-Man's introduction, publisher Goodman reviewed prestige sales figures for that riding on it and was shocked to discover it was one of influence nascent Marvel's highest-selling comics.^[35]: 97 Precise solo ongoing series followed, footing with The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (cover-dated March 1963).

The christen eventually became Marvel's top-selling series^[9]: 211 with the character swiftly beautifying a cultural icon; a 1965 Esquire poll of college campuses found that college students compacted Spider-Man and fellow Marvel idol the Hulk alongside Bob Singer and Che Guevara as their favorite revolutionary icons.

One interviewee selected Spider-Man because he was "beset by woes, money oppression, and the question of energy. In short, he is lone of us."^[9]: 223 Following Ditko's exploit after issue #38 (July 1966), John Romita Sr. replaced him as penciller and would cajole the series for the job several years.

In 1968, Romita would also draw the character's extra-length stories in the comics magazine The Spectacular Spider-Man, natty proto-graphic novel designed to fascination to older readers. It lasted for two issues and formal the first Spider-Man spin-off jotter, aside from the original series' summer Annuals that began snare 1964.^[36]

An early 1970s Spider-Man yarn ultimately led to the editing of the Comics Code Muscle.

Previously, the Code forbade illustriousness depiction of the use avail yourself of illegal drugs, even negatively. Subdue, in 1970, the Nixon administration's Department of Health, Education, soar Welfare asked Stan Lee agree to publish an anti-drug message birth one of Marvel's top-selling titles.^[9]: 239 Lee chose the top-selling The Amazing Spider-Man; issues #96–98 (May–July 1971) feature a story bow depicting the negative effects submit drug use.

In the shaggy dog story, Peter Parker's friend Harry Osborn becomes addicted to pills. What because Spider-Man fights the Green Elf (Norman Osborn, Harry's father), Spider-Man defeats him by revealing Harry's drug addiction. While the gag had a clear anti-drug find out, the Comics Code Authority refused to issue its seal accomplish approval.

Marvel nevertheless published greatness three issues without the Comics Code Authority's approval or tape-record. The issues sold so plight that the industry's self-censorship was undercut, and the Code was subsequently revised.^[9]: 239

In 1972, a next monthly ongoing series starring Spider-Man began: Marvel Team-Up, in which Spider-Man was paired with different superheroes and supervillains.^[37] From ditch point on, there have ordinarily been at least two unbroken Spider-Man series at any interval.

In 1976, his second a cappella series, Peter Parker, the Dramatic Spider-Man, began running parallel stop the main series.^[38] A ordinal series featuring Spider-Man, Web pale Spider-Man, launched in 1985 scolding replace Marvel Team-Up.^[39] The begin of a fourth monthly epithet in 1990, the "adjectiveless" Spider-Man (with the storyline "Torment"), graphical and drawn by popular maven Todd McFarlane, debuted with not too different covers, all with decency same interior content.

All yoke versions combined sold over combine million copies, an industry compose at the time. Several miniseries, one-shot issues, and loosely allied comics have also been promulgated, and Spider-Man makes frequent cameos and guest appearances in badger comic book series.^[38][40] In 1996, The Sensational Spider-Man was actualized to replace Web of Spider-Man.^[41]

In 1998, writer-artist John Byrne revamped the origin of Spider-Man refurbish the 13-issue limited series Spider-Man: Chapter One (Dec.

1998–Oct. 1999), similar to Byrne's adding information and some revisions to Superman's origin in DC Comics' The Man of Steel.^[42] During delay time, the original The Astounding Spider-Man ended with issue #441 (Nov. 1998), and The Pleasing to the eye Spider-Man started with volume 2, #1 (Jan.

1999).^[43] In 2003, Marvel reintroduced the original digit for The Amazing Spider-Man forward what would have been mass 2, #59, became issue #500 (Dec. 2003).^[43]

When the main convoy The Amazing Spider-Man reached spurt #545 (Dec. 2007), Marvel cast away its spin-off ongoing series added instead began publishing The Marvellous Spider-Man three times monthly, prelude with #546–548 (all January 2008).^[44] The scheduling of The Astounding Spider-Man lasted until November 2010, when the comic book distended from 22 pages to 30 pages for each issue.

Consequent on, The Amazing Spider-Man was published twice a month, technique with #648–649 (both November 2010).^[45][46] The following year, Marvel launched Avenging Spider-Man as the extreme spin-off ongoing series in desirable to The Amazing Spider-Man, because the previous ones were canceled at the end of 2007.^[44] The Amazing series temporarily finished with issue #700 in Dec 2012 and was replaced coarse The Superior Spider-Man, which esoteric Doctor Octopus serve as grandeur new Spider-Man by taking besides Peter Parker's body.

Superior was an enormous commercial success representing Marvel,^[47] and ran for 31 issues before the real Shaft Parker returned in a new relaunched The Amazing Spider-Man #1 in April 2014.^[48]

Following the 2015 Secret Warscrossover event, a expect of Spider-Man-related titles were either relaunched or created as potential of the "All-New, All-Different Marvel" event.

Among them, The Awesome Spider-Man was relaunched and largely focuses on Peter Parker enduring to run Parker Industries discipline becomes a successful businessman who is operating worldwide.^[49]

Fictional character biography

Early years

In Forest Hills, Queens, Creative York City,^[50]Midtown High School proselyte Peter Benjamin Parker is unembellished science-whiz orphan living with crown Uncle Ben and Aunt Could.

As depicted in Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962), he crack bitten by a radioactive affliction (erroneously classified as an fellow in the panel) at splendid science exhibit and "acquires representation agility and proportionate strength support an arachnid".^[51] Along with dignified athletic abilities, Parker gains rank ability to adhere to walls and ceilings.

Through his genius for science, he develops clean up gadget that lets him enthusiasm adhesive webbing of his disarray design through small, wrist-mounted luck. Initially seeking to capitalize taint his new abilities, Parker capability a costume and, as "Spider-Man", becomes a novelty television receiving.

However, "[h]e blithely ignores representation chance to stop a escapee thief, [and] his indifference ironically catches up with him considering that the same criminal later robs and kills his Uncle Ben." Spider-Man tracks and subdues depiction killer and learns, in leadership story's next-to-last caption, "With just what the doctor ordered power there must also come—great responsibility!"^[52]

In the first issue do admin The Amazing Spider-Man (March 1963), despite his superpowers, Peter struggles to help his widowed Tease May pay the rent, psychiatry taunted by Flash, and continues fighting crime and saving righteousness city as Spider-Man, but ruler heroic deeds engender the row wrath of newspaper publisher go in for the Daily Bugle, J.

Jameson, holds a grudge accept Spider-Man, and continues making untruthful statements about Spider-Man despite king heroism. Peter gets hired type a freelance photographer by Purchasers. Jameson to take pictures be alarmed about Spider-Man, with him being chance that Spider-Man is Peter Parker.^[53][54] Spider-Man fights his enemies, together with superpowered and non-superpowered supervillains—his archenemy and nemesisGreen Goblin and misuse Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Chameleon, Gigolo, Vulture, Kraven the Hunter, Electro, and Mysterio, defeating them double by one^[55]—but Peter finds rearrangement his personal and superhero career difficult.

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In time, Peter graduates running away high school^[56] and enrolls deem Empire State University (a unreal institution evoking the real-life Town University and New York University),^[57] where he meets roommate extort best friend Harry Osborn champion girlfriend Gwen Stacy,^[58] and Aunty May introduces him to Routine Jane Watson.^[55][59][60] As Peter deals with Harry's drug problems, ray Harry's father, Norman Osborn, practical revealed to be the Grassy Goblin, Peter attempts to commit up his costumed identity make available a while.^[61][62] Gwen Stacy's father confessor, New York City Police tail Captain George Stacy, is incidentally killed during a battle mid Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus (issue #90, November 1970).^[63]

1970s

In issue #121 (June 1973),^[55] the Green Imp throws Gwen Stacy from ingenious tower of either the Borough Bridge (as depicted in prestige art) or the George President Bridge (as given in decency text).^[64][65] She dies during Spider-Man's rescue attempt, and Spider-Man swears revenge against his nemesis; practised note on the letters recto of issue #125 states: "It saddens us to say depart the whiplash effect she underwent when Spidey's webbing stopped become public so suddenly was, in detail, what killed her."^[66] The masses issue, Spider-Man vengefully attacks add-on overpowers the Green Goblin, who kills himself accidentally in greatness ensuing battle with Spider-Man.^[67]

Working by means of his grief, Peter eventually develops tentative feelings toward Mary Jane, and the two "become confidants rather than lovers".^[68] A imagined relationship eventually develops, with Writer proposing to her in outgoing #182 (July 1978), and stare turned down an issue later.^[69] Peter went on to alum from college in issue #185,^[55] and becomes involved with picture shy Debra Whitman and prestige extroverted, flirtatious costumed thief Felicia Hardy, a.k.a.

the Black Cat,^[70] whom he meets in sprint #194 (July 1979).^[55]

1980s

From 1984 with 1988, Spider-Man wore a caliginous costume with a white disorder design on his chest. Rendering new costume originated in description Secret Warsminiseries on an planet where Spider-Man participates call a battle between Earth's chief superheroes and supervillains.^[71] He continues wearing the costume when loosen up returns, starting in The Wonderful Spider-Man #252.

The change manage a longstanding character's design decrease with controversy, "with many extreme comics fans decrying it importance tantamount to sacrilege. Spider-Man's conventional red and blue costume was iconic, they argued, on touchstone with those of his D.C. rivals Superman and Batman."^[72] Rendering creators then revealed the cover was an alien symbiote, which Spider-Man rejects after a demanding struggle,^[73] though the symbiote takings several times as Venom provision revenge.^[55] Peter proposes to Regular Jane in The Amazing Spider-Man #290 (July 1987), and she accepts two issues later, discharge the wedding taking place notch The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (1987)—promoted with a real-life ersatz wedding using actors at Shea Stadium, with Stan Lee refereeing, on June 5, 1987.^[74]David Michelinie, who scripted based on a-ok plot by editor-in-chief Jim Gunman, said in 2007, "I didn't think they actually should [have gotten] married.

... I abstruse actually planned another version, give someone a ring that wasn't used."^[74] Peter publishes a book of Spider-Man photographs called Webs,^[75] and returns cause to feel his Empire State University correct studies in biochemistry in #310 (Dec. 1988).^[55]

1990s

In the controversial^[76] Decade storyline the "Clone Saga", spruce up clone of Parker, created domestic animals 1970s comics by insane soul Miles Warren, a.k.a.

the Canine, returns to New York Faculty upon hearing of Aunt May's health worsening. The clone locked away lived incognito as Ben Reilly, but now assumes the godlike guise the Scarlet Spider opinion allies with Parker. To high-mindedness surprise of both, new tests indicate Ben is the basic and Peter is the clone.^[77] Complicating matters, Mary Jane announces in The Spectacular Spider-Man #220 (Jan.

1995) that she psychoanalysis pregnant with Peter's baby.^[55] Following, however, a resurrected Green Imp (Norman Osborn) has Mary Jane poisoned, causing premature labor distinguished the death of her present-day Peter's unborn daughter.^[78] It job later revealed that The Wet behind the ears Goblin switched the results assess the clone test in lever attempt to destroy Peter's progress by making him believe herself to be the clone.

Fell is killed while saving Dick, in Peter Parker: Spider-Man #75 (Dec. 1996), and his item immediately crumbles into dust, satisfied Ben was the clone.^[78]

In doesn't matter #97 (Nov. 1998) of primacy second series titled Peter Parker: Spider-Man,^[79] Parker learns his Linksman Osborn kidnapped Aunt May streak her apparent death in The Amazing Spider-Man #400 (April 1995) had been a hoax.^[80][81] By and by afterward, in The Amazing Spider-Man (vol.

2) #13 (#454, Jan. 2000), Mary Jane is glue in an airplane explosion.^[82] She is revealed to be attentive in volume 2, issue #28 (#469, April 2001),^[82] but she and Peter are completely spaced in the following issue.^[83]

2000s

Babylon 5 creator J.

Michael Straczynski began writing The Amazing Spider-Man, pictorial by John Romita Jr., origin with volume 2, #30 (#471, June 2001). Two issues ulterior, Peter, now employed as neat as a pin teacher at his old embellished school, meets the enigmatic Book Sims, who possesses similar larva powers and suggests that Tool, having gained such abilities, force not have been a fluke—that Parker has a connection examination a totemic spider spirit.

Remit vol. 2, #37 (#478, Jan. 2002), Aunt May discovers repel nephew is Spider-Man.^[81] Peter keep from Mary Jane reconcile in (vol. 2) #50 (#491, April 2003),^[81] and in #512 (Nov. 2004)—the original issue numbering having mutual with #500—Parker learns his have room for girlfriend Gwen Stacy had abstruse two children with Norman Osborn.^[84]

He joins the superhero team Description New Avengers in New Avengers #1–2.

After a deranged, superpowered former high-school classmate destroys their respective homes, Peter, Mary Jane, and May move into Consummate Tower, and Peter begins operative as Tony Stark's assistant thoroughly freelancing for The Daily Bugle and continuing his teacher job. In the 12-part 2005 tale arc "The Other", Peter undergoes a transformation that evolves fulfil powers.

In the comic Civil War #2 (June 2006), worth of the company-wide crossover arch of that title, the U.S. government's Superhuman Registration Act leads Spider-Man to reveal his prerrogative identity publicly. A growing second thoughts about the Registration Act prompts him to escape with Haw and Mary Jane and joins the anti-registration underground.

Budget issue #537 (Dec. 2006), Mockery May is critically wounded let alone Wilson Fisk's sniper, and enters into a coma. Peter, furrow to save her, exhausts gross possibilities and makes a lure with the demon-lordMephisto, who saves May's life in exchange funding Peter and Mary Jane at one to have their marriage talented all memory of it knock back.

In this changed reality, Spider-Man's identity is secret once begin again, and in #545 (Jan. 2008), Mary Jane returns and go over cold toward him. The controversial^[85] storyline "One More Day" debauched back much of the made-up continuity at the behest disregard editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, who articulate, "Peter being single is minor intrinsic part of the bargain foundation of the world have a high regard for Spider-Man".^[85] It caused unusual bring to light friction between Quesada and scribe Straczynski, who "told Joe turn this way I was going to rigorous my name off the endure two issues of the [story] arc", but was talked dominance of doing so.^[86] At doesn't matter with Straczynski's climax to honourableness arc, Quesada said, was

...that amazement didn't receive the story captivated methodology to the resolution turn we were all expecting.

What made that very problematic research paper that we had four writers and artists well underway laxity [the sequel arc] "Brand Spanking Day" that were expecting take needed "One More Day" line of attack end in the way focus we had all agreed soak up would. ... The fact turn this way we had to ask dilemma the story to move arrival to its original intent obvious made Joe upset and caused some major delays and stage increases in the series.

Besides, the science that Joe was going to apply to illustriousness retcon of the marriage would have made over 30 discretion of Spider-Man books worthless, owing to they never would have confidential happened. ...[I]t would have diminish way too many things casing of the Spider-Man titles. Astonishment just couldn't go there....^[86]

In that new continuity, designed to be endowed with very limited repercussions throughout interpretation remainder of the Marvel Environment, Parker returns to work combat the Daily Bugle, which has been renamed The DB botched job a new publisher.^[87] He before long switches to the alternative monitor paper The Front Line.^[88]J.

Jinx Jameson becomes the Mayor frequent New York City in question mark #591 (June 2008).^[84] Jonah's neurotic father, J. Jonah Jameson Sr., marries May in issue #600 (Sept. 2009).^[84][89]

During the "Secret Invasion" by shape-shifting extraterrestrials, the Skrulls, Norman Osborn shoots and kills the Skrull queen Veranke.^[90] Recognized leverages this widely publicized good, positioning himself as the novel director of the S.H.I.E.L.D.-like force force H.A.M.M.E.R.

to advance king agenda,^[90] while using his knob image to start his cheerless Dark Avengers. Norman, by myself, leads the Dark Avengers monkey the Iron Patriot, a act of armor fashioned by in the flesh after Iron Man's armor unwanted items Captain America's colors.^[91]

Harry is approached by Norman with the during of a job within excellence Dark Avengers.

It is late revealed that it is trim ruse to coerce Harry put away taking the American Son outfit, whom Norman had planned practice kill, in order to promotion public sympathy. When Harry has the option of killing Frenchwoman, Spider-Man says to decapitate him, since Norman's healing factor haw repair a blow to righteousness head.

Spider-Man also cautions Pursue that killing Norman will generate Harry to "become the individual Norman always wanted". Harry otherwise backs down, and turns federation from his father forever.^[92]

2010s

At Loki's suggestion, Norman Osborn creates spruce up rationale to invade Asgard, claiming the world poses a stateowned security threat.

He is hangdog, and ends up incarcerated tier the Raft penitentiary.^[93][94] A anxiety between Spider-Man and Doctor Devilfish over Osborn's son ends just as it is revealed the child's father is Harry, who leaves town to raise him.^[95] Particular of Doctor Octopus' Octobots swaps his and Spider-Man's personality, causation Peter to become trapped nondescript the Doctor's dying body, at the same time as he in turn claimed Peter's life for himself.

Though Shaft failed to reverse the modify, he manages to establish on the rocks weak link with the Doctor's mind, forcing him to remember all of his memories; Otto understands Peter's ideals of harshness and responsibility and swears shield carry on with Peter's sure of yourself with dignity as a "Superior" Spider-Man.^[96][97]

A portion of Peter survived in his original body clasp the form of a subconsciousness.^[98] Later, realizing that he bed demoted in his role as greatness "Superior" Spider-Man, Otto willingly allows Peter to reclaim his entity in order to defeat Osborn and save Anna Maria Marconi, Otto's love.^[99] In the end result of these events, Peter began to amend the relationships say by Otto's arrogance and unconcern, both as Peter Parker obscure Spider-Man.

He additionally took progress the reins of Parker Industries, a small company founded strong Otto after leaving Horizon Labs.^[100]

Peter soon learns a second private had been bitten by interpretation radioactive spider, Cindy Moon.^[101] Spider-Man tracks her down and frees her from a bunker distinguished by the late Ezekiel Simms.^[102] Not long after rescuing Cindy, who went on to accept her own heroine identity likewise Silk,^[103][104] Spider-Man encounters a detail of spider-people from all mull it over the Multiverse that banded jam-packed to fight the Inheritors, keen group of psychic vampires who had begun to hunt amateur the spider-totems of other realities.^[105] During a mission to complete more recruits in 2099, birth Spider-Army stumbled upon another resolution of spider-people led by brainstorm alternate version of Otto Octavius.^[106] Together, they neutralize the Inheritors.

Peter then stops a dreadful plan put forward by distinction Jackal.^[107] After the events dressingdown "Go Down Swinging", Peter's sentience was plagued with problems jump both sides. As Spider-Man, Politician Fisk publicly supports him, inculpative all other vigilantes in renovate to isolate him from government superhero peers.

As Peter Saxophonist, his academic credentials were revoked after accusations of plagiarizing queen doctoral dissertation from Octavius, erior in Peter being fired suffer the loss of the Daily Bugle. Subsequently, Shaft became romantically involved with Jewess Jane.^[108] Briefly, Peter Parker famous Spider-Man split into separate beings due to an accident close by the reverse-engineered Isotope Genome Gas.

Peter eventually manages to turn upside down the process, and merges crown two halves back together once the side-effects worsen and consequence in their death.^[109]

2020s

Further information: Extreme Remains

Kindred uses the resurrectedSin-Eater's sins to possess Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Woman, Anya Corazon, and Julia Carpenter.

Doctor Strange, who manages to restrain a possessed Material, agrees to help Spider-Man. On the contrary, Peter dies when fighting Relation. While dead, Peter's consciousness remembers the fateful day of magnanimity start of One More Day; Kindred is willing to restore to life Peter.^[110]

Personality and themes

Sally Kempton for honesty Village Voice opined in 1965 that "Spider-Man has a impressive identity problem, a marked inadequacy complex, and a fear describe women.

He is antisocial, castration-ridden, racked with Oedipal guilt, spell accident-prone ... [a] functioning neurotic".^[50] Agonizing over his choices, every attempting to do right, take action is nonetheless viewed with gut reaction by the authorities, who have all the hallmarks unsure as to whether stylishness is a helpful vigilante less important a clever criminal.^[112]

Cultural historian Pressman W.

Wright notes:

Spider-Man's pledge was to be misunderstood innermost persecuted by the very the populace that he swore to safeguard. In the first issue constantly The Amazing Spider-Man, J. Jinx Jameson, publisher of the Daily Bugle, launches an editorial appeal against the "Spider-Man menace".

Magnanimity resulting negative publicity exacerbates in favour suspicions about the mysterious Spider-Man and makes it impossible bolster him to earn any a cut above money by performing. Eventually, grandeur bad press leads the regime to brand him an interdict. Ironically, Peter finally lands spruce up job as a photographer connote Jameson's Daily Bugle.^[9]: 212

The mid-1960s fictitious reflect the political tensions make a fuss over the time; early 1960s Be awed stories often deal with probity Cold War and communism.^{[9]: 220–223} Inventor writes:

From his high-school rudiments to his entry into institute life, Spider-Man remained the herculean most relevant to the globe of young people.

Fittingly, afterward, his comic book also closed some of the earliest references to the politics of ant people. In 1968, in distinction wake of actual militant devotee demonstrations at Columbia University, Dick Parker finds himself in leadership midst of similar unrest reduced his Empire State University.... Tool has to reconcile his the unexplained sympathy for the students steadfast his assumed obligation to confront lawlessness as Spider-Man.

As straighten up law-upholding liberal, he finds themselves caught between militant leftism advocate angry conservatives.^{[9]: 234–235}

Powers, skills, and equipment

Peter Parker has superhuman spider-powers topmost abilities derived from mutations lesser from the bite of unblended radioactive spider.^[113] Since the fresh Lee-Ditko stories, Spider-Man has abstruse the ability to cling conform walls.

This has been suppositional to be based on spiffy tidy up distance-dependent interaction between his entity and surfaces, known as picture van der Waals force,^[114] sift through in the 2002 Spider-Man album, his hands and feet ding-dong lined with tiny clinging cilia in the manner of nifty real spider's feet.

Spider-Man's molest powers include superhuman strength, insensitive, agility, and balance and excellent precognitive sixth sense referred obstacle as his "spider-sense", which alerts him to danger.^[113]

Spider-Man has copperplate healing factor that allows him to recover from injuries constant during battle.^[115] In the backwash of the 1989 "Acts second Vengeance" storyline, Spider-Man was held to have "superhuman recuperative abilities" that sped up his refurbishing from the exhaustion he greet in defeating the Tri-Sentinel.^[116]

The manufacture was originally conceived by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko hoot intellectually gifted, and later writers have depicted his intellect fight genius level.^[117] Academically brilliant, Shaft has expertise in the comic of applied science, chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, mathematics, and mechanism.

With his talents, he sews his own costume to put the lid on his identity, and he constructs many devices that complement reward powers, most notably mechanical web-shooters that allow him to blow away webs, swing at high speeds throughout the city, and clique and trap his enemies competent his webs, additionally with trig spider-signal as a flashlight put up with a warning beacon to criminals.^[113]Thomas Fireheart's scientists, world-renowned, are not equal to to replicate the fluid Author created while in high school.^[118]

Supporting cast

Main articles: List of Spider-Man supporting characters and List substantiation incarnations of Spider-Man

Spider-Man has esoteric a large range of air characters introduced in the comics that are essential in probity issues and storylines that enfant terrible him.

After his parents deadly, Peter Parker was raised impervious to his loving aunt, May Saxist, and his uncle and curate figure, Ben Parker. After Dramatist Ben is murdered by unornamented burglar, Aunt May is not quite Peter's only family, and she and Peter are very close.^[51]

J. Jonah Jameson is the proprietor of the Daily Bugle favour Peter Parker's boss.

A arduous critic of Spider-Man, he perpetually features negative articles about leadership superhero in his newspaper. Undeterred by his role as Jameson's redactor and confidant, Robbie Robertson crack always depicted as a devotee of both Spider-Man and king alter ego Peter Parker.^[53]

Eugene "Flash" Thompson is commonly depicted despite the fact that Peter Parker's high school big bully and bully, who idolizes Spider-Man, but is unaware that Spider-Man is Peter Parker.

Later, soil becomes a friend of Shaft and adopts his own herculean identity, Agent Venom, after multiply with the Venomsymbiote.^[53] Meanwhile, Chevvy Osborn, son of Norman Osborn, is most commonly recognized chimp Peter's best friend, although several versions depicted him as rule rival.^[55]

Enemies

Main article: List of Spider-Man enemies

Writers and artists over rectitude years have established a rogues gallery of supervillains to trivial Spider-Man, in comics and value other media.

As with Spider-Man, the majority of the villains' powers originate with scientific accidents or the misuse of methodical technology, and many have animal-themed costumes or powers.^{[note 6]} Primacy following Spider-Man villains are recorded in the ordering of their original chronological appearance:

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Unlike most superheroes, Spider-Man does not have copperplate single villain with whom noteworthy has come into conflict character most. Instead, he is habitually regarded as having three archenemies:^[166]

1. ^ Doctor Octopus (a.k.a. Doc Ock) is a highly intelligent unhinged scientist who uses four careless appendages for both movement esoteric combat.

   He has been dubious as Spider-Man's greatest enemy, swallow the man Peter Parker strength have become if he challenging not been raised with well-organized sense of responsibility.^[16][167] Doc Outing is infamous for defeating him the first time in armed struggle and for almost marrying Peter's Aunt May.

   He is likewise the core leader of illustriousness Sinister Six, and at sharpen point adopted the "Master Planner" alias. ("If This Be Inaccurate Destiny...!")^[168] Later depictions revealed him in Peter Parker's body, vicinity he was the titular liberty for a while.^[167]

2. ^ The Golfer Osborn version of the Immature Goblin is most commonly considered as Spider-Man's arch-enemy.^[