On today's episode of:
Who's your favourite Marvel character?
Mine is none other than... your Friendly Neighborhood 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 since been featured in movies, television shows, video
games, and plays.
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. In his origin story, he gets
spider-related abilities from a bite from a radioactive spider;
these include clinging to surfaces, superhuman strength and agility,
and detecting danger with his "spider-sense." He also builds
wrist-mounted "web-shooter" devices that shoot artificial spider webs
of his own design.
Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful
superheroes. He has appeared in countless forms of media, including
several animated and live action television series, syndicated
newspaper comic strips, and in 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.
In films, Spider-Man has been portrayed by actors Tobey
Maguire, Andrew Garfield, 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. 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.
Learn more about Spider-Man on the
Marvel Database
or on the
Marvel Cinematic Universe Fandom
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