Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a comic book character that first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15
Peter Benjamin Parker is The Amazing Spider-Man. As a teenager, Peter was bitten by a radioactive spider that turned him into Spider-Man. After the murder of his Uncle Ben, Spider-Man vowed to use his super powers responsibly.
Origin of Spider-Man
Early Years of Spider-Man
Peter Benjamin Parker, is the only son of Richard Parker and Mary Parker. His parents were SHIELD agents who were killed during a mission against the Red Skull. After the loss of his parents, Peter grew up living with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Peter's uncle Ben was too old to engage in any physical activities with him, and his aunt was very over-protective. This led him to take interest in pursuits that were non-physical such as photography and chemistry. 
Peter went to school in New York City at Midtown High School. Peter was extremely gifted in science and academics, but lacked the social skills needed to interact with his peers, becoming the class "nerd". He was regularly ridiculed throughout his academic life by school bullies, most prominently, Flash Thompson who gave Peter the nickname "Puny Parker".
While observing a science experiment dealing with radioactive isotopes, a spider was caught in a radiation. In sudden shock, the spider bit Peter before dying. Feeling a burn on the bite, Peter left the exhibition and rushed back home by going through a unfamiliar section of the city. He was then cornered by a gang of thugs, where he defended himself by tossing one of them with such ease that Peter was even surprised of his own strength. Still heading home, Peter ran through the streets and almost got hit by a speeding car, but he sensed this and quickly leaped over the car and apparently stuck to the side of the wall. He then jumped onto a guy wire and realized that he has excellent balance. Peter then hypothesized that the bite gave him the proportional strength and agility of a spider, he was also able to stick to any surface, and he even developed a "spider sense" which warned him of danger. Spider-Man was born.
While walking home from the science hall and contemplating his fate. Peter passed by a wrestling exhibition offering three thousand dollars to any man who could last three minutes with Crusher Hogan. Peter saw the match as a great chance to test his new powers, but didn't want to look foolish if he failed, so he got himself a mask to hide his identity and challenge the wrestler. He easily defeated Crusher, and quickly found himself being courted by a television producer promising to make Peter a fortune. Peter wanted to increase his showmanship, and decided that since he had spider powers, he would design himself a spider costume. Then he used his scientific expertise to design and build his wrist-mounted " web shooters." Finally, he needed to come up with a name for his alter ego and decided that the "Amazing Spider-Man" was as good as any. Soon Spider-Man appeared on T.V. displaying his miraculous powers and was an instant hit. After Peter's first performance, a criminal robbed the venue and ran right past Spider-Man, but Spider-Man could not be bothered to stop the criminal from escaping, saying that "From now on I just look out for number one". Days later as Spider-Man's fame grew, the same criminal attempted to rob the Parker household. Peter's Uncle Ben surprised The Burglar but was shot and killed. Peter, as Spider-Man, tracked the killer to an abandoned warehouse where the police had the murderer pinned. Upon apprehending the killer, Spider-Man discovered that it was the same man that earlier he had allowed to escape. Shocked by that revelation, and feeling tremendous guilt over the loss of his uncle, Peter threw away his costume, wishing the Spider-Man never existed.
After his uncle’s death, and with no one to provide for the family, Peter and his aunt became desperate for money. Peter decided to once again perform as Spider-Man, but he wanted to keep his identity hidden and couldn't cash his paychecks. Also a hindrance to Spider-Man's performing career, the publisher of the newspaper " The Daily Bugle," J. Jonah Jameson, began a vicious campaign to destroy Spider-Man's public image. Jameson was jealous of the spotlight Spider-Man was getting, and thought that the world should be more interested in "real heroes" like his son, John Jameson. After Jonah's smear campaign, no one wanted to see Spider-Man perform, and Peter's days on television were numbered. Spider-Man saved J. Jonah Jameson's son when a rocket flight almost crashed, but Jonah still hated him as much as ever. In fact, he even convinced himself that Spider-Man himself had rigged the flight so that it would fail, and that when he saved John he would look like a hero. Later on in life, Peter Parker would manage to get a job providing photos he took of himself as Spider-Man to Jameson, even though they were always used against him. It was also during this time at "The Daily Bugle" that Parker began a brief relationship with secretary Betty Brant. Later, the couple would split with Peter's double-life as an indirect cause. Betty's brother Bennett had been shot earlier in the comic series and died, and Betty couldn't bare to have someone else she loved die; in this case if Peter were shot whilst getting crime photos. Betty would go on to date Ned Leeds.
With the world against him, and with no one to confide in, Peter began to wonder how the other heroes got by. That was when he got the idea to join the Fantastic Four. Peter goes to the headquarters of the Fantastic Four for an interview, but finds the elevator locked. Determined to see the Fantastic Four, Peter dons his Spider-Man disguise and sneaks into the building. He manages to allude the Fantastic Four's security measures, and even the Fantastic Four themselves, but when Spider-Man finds out that the Fantastic Four is a nonprofit organization, he loses interest in becoming a member and leaves. Shortly after this encounter, Spider-Man fought his very first villain, a communist spy called the Chameleon, who had the skills to quickly disguise himself as any other person.
Spider-Man's early years in the 1960s were spent fighting colorful villains who were actually rather silly, like Vulture, Chameleon, Lizard, Kraven The Hunter, Mysterio, Electro, Rhino, and Sandman. But when the Green Goblin was introduced in Amazing Spider-Man #14, Spider-Man began facing more powerful villains, such as the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus.
Peter later learned that his Aunt May blamed herself for Uncle Ben's death; they had had an argument the night he had died and she had taken a long walk to compose herself before the two could resolve it more calmly, but by the time she had returned to their house, he was already dead.
Spider-Man: College Years
Death of Gwen Stacy
Finally, the Green Goblin was seemingly defeated by Spider-Man, despite that Spider-Man was sick at the time of the fight. But as the Goblin stood there defeated, in a spiteful, evil move, he threw Gwen Stacy off of the bridge. Spider-Man caught her leg with his web, but there was a loud “snap” sound and Gwen broke her neck.
In anger, Peter tracked the Goblin to an abandoned warehouse where the two engaged in battle. They fought long and hard before the Green Goblin was finally impaled and pinned against a wall with his own glider when he tried to attack Peter from behind with it, only to have Peter dodge it.
After Gwen’s death, Peter became anti-social, but found find Mary Jane constantly supporting him through this traumatic incident. At first, Peter pushed Mary Jane away but she kept coming back to support him. Eventually Peter fell in love with Mary Jane and the two began dating. As a direct result of Gwen Stacy dying, Professor Miles Warren became the Jackal, and he hired the Punisher to take out Spider-Man in the Punisher's first ever appearance, but the Punisher found out that the Jackal had killed one of his best friends so he stopped pursuing Peter.
Later Peter encountered a clone of himself and a clone of Gwen Stacy. Miles Warren, a protégé of Herbert Edgar Wyndham better known as the High Evolutionary, who called himself the Jackal, was the man who created the clones. He made them because he blamed Spider-Man for killing Gwen. Eventually the clone Spider-Man was apparently killed, and the real Spider-Man took his clone to a factory smokestack and threw the lifeless body into it. The Gwen Stacy clone left Peter afterwards, since she knew she was just a clone created for one purpose.
Mary Jane and Peter broke up after Peter proposed to her. Mary Jane told him that she was not ready for a serious commitment. Mary Jane, then left New York for a brief time in order to pursue her acting career.
Unknown to Spider-Man, Harry Osborn had secretly witnessed the battle and the death of his father, Norman, and Harry swore vengeance against Spider-Man for murdering his father. Eventually Harry discovered a Spider-Man costume in Peter's room, learning Spider-Man's secret identity. Harry then became the new Green Goblin so that he could battle Spider-Man. Figuring out that Harry was now in the Goblin costume, and not wanting to hurt his best friend, Spider-Man was able to render Harry unconscious during their fight, and he turned him into the police who refused to believe Harry's claims to be the Green Goblin. Harry was sent to a mental institution, where he was treated for his mental instability, and it seemed that his sanity had returned. Harry remained amnesic about the Green Goblin and Spider-Man, but he later regained his memory of Spider-Man's identity. Harry was taken to a psychiatrist, Doctor Bart Hamilton, and was hypnotized to cure him. However, whilst hypnotized, he told Bart Hamilton all about the history of the Green Goblin, Peter Parker's identity, and a warehouse where the Goblin's gear was located. Checking to see if this was true, Bart found himself overwhelmed by the sense of power. He then hypnotized Harry into taking pictures of Spider-Man disposing of his clone then mailing them to J. Jonah Jameson, in the hope that this would expose his identity. The plan backfired, and after a psychiatric session which ended with Harry attacking him, Bart decided he would take up the mantle of the Green Goblin. He tried to take over the mobs so that he would be king of the underworld, but they only agreed to give him leadership if he captured Spider-Man. Bart fought with Peter many times in one night, but after Peter finally unmasked him, Harry arrived, also with the Goblin gear, ready to stop Bart. The two foes fought, and in the end Bart got out his ace-in-the-hole: a miniaturized bomb. However, just before he detonated it, a conveyor belt he was on knocked him back, so Peter and Harry were alright. Bart then died in the explosion. Fortunately, Harry again lost his knowledge of Peter's identity as a result of the explosion.
Spider-Man's Six Arm Saga
When Morbius took a bite of the Lizard, somehow the bite reverted Lizard's intelligence into that of Dr. Connors. He and Curt Connors managed to create a serum from Morbius's blood that got rid of Peter's extra's arms. Shortly before the famous "Death of Gwen Stacy" story arc (see below), Peter went to Canada, since Aunt May's lawyer had something he needed to give either Peter or Aunt May. When Peter finally managed to meet with him, he was shot by a mysterious man. Months later, Peter was shocked to find out that Aunt May was going to marry Doctor Octopus.
However during the ceremony, Hammerhead, Doc Ock's gang rival, interrupted the ceremony, as he wanted to take Aunt May for a hostage. It turned out that Aunt May had inherited a small Canadian island with a nuclear reactor on it. Her lawyer had been trying to tell her, only he had been shot by one of Hammerhead's men so that he couldn't tell Peter or Aunt May. Eventually Peter managed to get his Aunt May and himself off the island just before the reactor exploded, leaving Hammerhead and Doctor Octopus seemingly dead. Doctor Octopus was later revealed to have survived, and Hammerhead had turned into a ghost, but was soon returned to life after Doctor Octopus accidentally used a nuclear device on him.
Spider-Man's Parents
Arriving in Algeria, Spider-Man searched the Casbah, hunting for the contact his aunt had told him about. His search attracted the attention of the man he sought, who sent out a group of thugs to stop him. Fighting them off, Spider-Man discovered the whereabouts of his enemy. Tracking down the hideout, the arachnoid was shocked to discover that his adversary was none other than Captain America's greatest enemy, the Nazi terrorist known as the Red Skull. The battle with the Red Skull resulted in the destruction of the fascist's headquarters, but Spider-Man was able to save the files relating to his parents. As a result of this, he found the proof he needed to clear their names. He discovered that they had been working as double agents for the United States government and had not been traitors after all.
Later, Richard and Mary Parker had seemingly returned from the dead. According to the Parkers, Russian agents had kidnapped them many years ago, taking them prisoner before they could board the plane. After spending weeks getting reacquainted with his parents, Peter Parker revealed his identity to them.
Spider-Man was shocked when he soon found his parents with the Chameleon and the Vulture. It was later revealed that the people Peter thought were his parents were actually highly sophisticated robots that had been programmed by the Chameleon to mimic Richard and Mary Parker. Though the Richard robot was perfectly willing to betray Peter, Mary hesitated. She had been programmed to think of Peter as her own son and had grown to love him. When Spider-Man confronted them, Richard instantly began to metamorphose into a deadly engine of destruction. Torn between her conflicting programs, Mary stopped Richard from revealing Spider-Man's true identity and was forced to terminate her robot husband.
In return for destroying the Richard robot, the Vulture destroyed the robot that had been Mary Parker. As she lay dying, she told Peter that she loved him. Devastated and furious by the deception, Spider-Man pursued the Chameleon and eventually captured him. That was when the arachnoid learned that someone else had encouraged the Chameleon to create the Parker robots, supplying the criminal with all the necessary information. The Chameleon, the Vulture, and the robots had all been pawns of Harry Osborn, the Green Goblin.
Secret Wars and the Symbiote Suit
When his spider-sense suddenly flared from the force of an exploding bomb, Peter Parker instantly realized that he was in intense danger. Almost blind with pain from the intensity of his spider-sense, he struggled to locate the source of this new threat. He changed into his costume and followed the tingles deep into New York's Central Park.
Hidden from view by a forest of trees, Spider-Man was shocked to discover a strange-looking alien structure rising from the ground. As he approached the unknown edifice, dazzling lights suddenly engulfed Spider-Man and he disappeared within the blinding blaze. Spider-Man found himself on a satellite in a galaxy far from Earth. Along with other super-heroes, such as Captain America, and super-villains, including Doctor Doom, Spider-Man was brought to the satellite by a near omnipotent being called the Beyonder. The Beyonder wanted heroes and villains to fight a war on a planet called Battleworld. Spider-Man fought many battles there, and his costume was left in tatters. Then he found a machine that could replace ruined clothing.
Spider-Man triggered the clothing machine and a round black object sprang from it. It immediately started to spread up Spider-Man's arm and did not stop till it had covered his entire body. The alien costume seemed to know what Peter wanted, sometimes even before he did. At first Peter was surprised about his new look, but then he realized that he might have been subconsciously influenced by the design of the new Spider-Woman costume which Julia Carpenter, who later changed her alias to Arachne, was wearing. As the alien costume slithered over Spider-Man, it absorbed and dissolved away the tatters of his old costume. After defeating the villains and escaping the Beyonder, the heroes returned to Earth, and Spider-Man took his alien costume with him. He learned that his new super-costume was capable of generating a seemingly endless supply of webbing, and that it could also change its appearance at will. Peter and his alien costume were always in some kind of psychic contact, even when physically separated. If the costume was in a different room, it came at Peter's mental summons.
Each night while Peter slept, the alien costume secretly slipped over him and took the unconscious Spider-Man wall-crawling. Peter awoke each morning with no memory of his nocturnal adventures, all he knew was that he felt more exhausted than before he had gone to bed. As Peter's fatigue continued to grow, he slept through entire days and began to have terrible nightmares. So Spider-Man went to Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four for help. After an exhausting series of tests, Mr. Fantastic made a startling discovery. Instead of an amazing suit composed of some unknown extra-terrestrial fabric, was actually a living creature. It was a sentient Symbiote who had formed a mental and physical bond with the arachnoid. As soon as the symbiote's secret was revealed, it attempted to permanently graft itself to Spider-Man's body. Spider-Man did all he could to escape from the costume, but the symbiote tightened its grip on him, almost crushing Spidey in the process. Luckily, Reed Richards had discovered that the symbiote was vulnerable to certain sound waves. Using these sounds, Richards managed to separate Spider-Man from the costume. At last Peter was free and the alien was imprisoned. Later, the symbiote escaped from Richards's laboratory and pounced on the unsuspecting Spider-Man. In desperation, Spider-Man lured the alien to the bell tower of Our Lady Of Saints Church. Knowing that the sound of the bells could free him from the symbiote, Peter banged against the bell and the alien pulled away from Peter. The symbiote knew that only one of them could survive the ordeal, and sacrificed Peter to save itself. It later turned up alive in the bell tower, and gripped itself onto Eddie Brock who became Venom.
The Death of Jean DeWolff
After saving a friend of Aunt May from muggers, Spider-Man found out that his friend, Jean DeWolff was murdered in her sleep. He later found out from the detective who was investigating the case that the killer is someone calling himself the Sin-Eater. Attorney Matt Murdock is later legally defending the same muggers that attacked Aunt May's friend and they were relased on bail. Peter was at the hearing disgusted on the verdict and Matt was visibly guilty of his own actions. He was confronted by the presiding judge, who is also his mentor and told him that he was weak. Then the Sin-Eater goes on to kill the judge and Matt couldn't do anything to defend him without revealing his superhero identity as Daredevil. Peter was also investigating and he find out that Jean was in love with him as Spider-Man, which makes her death even more painful for him. Matt was at Jean's funeral and could hear the Sin-Eater's heartbeat but dared not to speak out if it weren't for his secret identity. When the priest who oversaw the funeral of DeWolff was hearing a confession, he was killed by the person who was confessing to him, revealed to be the Sin-Eater. Spider-Man and Daredevil later team-up to track down the Sin-Eater, who is now out to kill J. Jonah Jameson.
The heroes find out that the identity of the Sin-Eater is the same detective that was investigating the murder of Jean DeWolff, Stanley Carter. The Sin-Eater entered JJJ's house to kill him but only found Betty Brant, who was watching over the house. Spider-Man managed to save Betty before she was shot. Spider-Man was so mad at the Sin-Eater that he beat him within an inch of his life and he could have killed him until Daredevil pinned him into submission. Sin-Eater was arrested and sent into jail, but he was followed by an angry mob, including Jean's father, who was ready and willing to punish him. Daredevil tried to save Sin-Eater but he was overwhelmed by the people with Spider-Man turning his back and is about to leave. It wan't until Daredevil cried out Spider-Man's real name that he almost instinctively swung by and managed to save both Daredevil and Sin-Eater. In the rooftop, both Spider-Man and Daredevil both revealed each other's secret identities to each other and Matt even offered his legal services to Peter if he needed. This solidified the friendship between the superheroes.
The Marriage
Mary Jane Watson eventually returned to New York and also showed signs of maturity. She admitted to Peter that she had known he was Spider-Man for a long time. She had known on the night of his Uncle Ben’s death that he was Spider-Man because she had seen Peter sneak out of his room in his Spider-Man costume. The couple finally decided to tie the knot and get married in the Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21. They had taken into consideration that they might be too young and Peter’s alter ego might cause strain on their marriage. At the night before their marriage, they both contemplate about having cold feet. However, in spite of all that, the two decided to marry anyway, believing that their love was strong enough to see them through it all. One of the biggest reliefs for Peter was when he gained the blessings of marrying Mary Jane from Harry (who was MJ's ex-boyfriend), who advised Peter about his cold feet feeling and told him that love conquers all. The marriage was later taken away after Peter and Mary Jane made a deal with Mephisto in order to save his Aunt May's life in One More Day.
Kraven's Last Hunt
One of Spider-Man's earliest foes was Kraven The Hunter, a big game hunter who prided himself on being able to defeat and capture any living creature. He was continuously defeated by Spider-Man, and eventually Kraven became obsessed with defeating his arachnid-enemy. Kraven was finally able to get the drop on Spider-Man. After dropping a net over him, he shot him point blank with a rifle, then proceeded to bury him on his land. Defeating Spider-Man was simply the beginning of his plan. Kraven then went out dressed as Spider-Man with his own copy of the costume, attempting to show that he was superior to him by defeating a villain, Vermin, whom Spider-Man had been unable to defeat on his own.
Two weeks went by and Peter found himself alive, but buried in a coffin. Kraven had never shot him with real bullets, but instead a highly concentrated tranquilizer. In a panic, Spider-Man managed to claw his way out. The first thing Peter did was go home where he was relieved to find that Mary Jane was safe. She asked him to stay with her but he felt had to go after Kraven. Spider-Man found Kraven at his estate, where Kraven seemed to have lost his fight. He had nothing left to prove. He showed a battered Vermin to Spider-Man, proving his worth and that he was "better" than Spider-Man. Rather than fight Spider-Man, Kraven let Vermin go, taunting Spider-Man to go after him in order to save "innocent lives." Spider-Man felt he had no choice but to go after Vermin. Upon Spider-Man's departure, Kraven went upstairs and shot himself with his rifle. His life had been complete and he felt he had nothing else to live for. It was this experience, in addition to the torment from Venom, that caused Mary Jane to beg Peter to stop wearing the black costume.
A sequel was released after the success the "Kraven's Last Hunt" story arc had. In this story Spider-Man was confronted by the soul of Kraven. Now confused, Spider-Man decided to go to Kraven's grave to find out what exactly was going on. Once Spider-Man was at Kraven's grave, he met a mysterious spiritual figure who appeared to look like Death. Spider-Man was then told that the spirit and Kraven had a spiritual bond. The spirit then revealed to Spider-Man that Kraven's soul could not find peace because he had died through suicide. Spider-Man was then dragged underneath the ground bye Kraven's body. At first Spider-Man appeared to have accepted this; however, he decided midway down to fight back and was able to resurface. This finally helped enable Kraven's soul to find peace.
Cosmic Spider-Man
Spider-Man's new power included the ability to generate concussive blasts from the tips of his fingers, or combine them into a fist-sized blast powerful enough to shatter an army tank. Spider-Man's vision was also enhanced. His eyes could now see much farther than any conventional pair of binoculars, and he could look through walls. His senses had also developed to where they had become far sharper than those of Daredevil or Puma. Suddenly, he could hear a spider crossing a window pane two blocks away, and smell the fragrance of a potted plant on a distant building ledge. Quickly learning how to filter out the excess noise and smells before they overwhelmed him, Spider-Man also used his new powers to locate and defeat a professional criminal called the Trapster. Spider-Man's new powers had actually come from a mysterious extra-dimensional entity known as the Enigma Force. It bestowed its Uni-Power on various individuals, turning them into a being known as Captain Universe and giving them superhuman powers long enough to cope with a specific crisis. Spider-Man was merely the latest Captain Universe. As Spider-Man grew more comfortable with his new cosmic powers, he found himself fighting a different class of enemy. During a battle with Magneto, the greatest enemy of the uncanny X-Men, Spider-Man eventually drove the master of magnetism away when the villain realized that he could never take on the cosmically charged Spider-Man on his own.
While Spider-Man had not particularly liked being drafted by the Enigma Force, he realized that he had a responsibility to fight the menace it had foreseen. This menace proved to be in the form of three massive Sentinel robots. In an act of spite, the evil god Loki caused these robots to merge, creating one super-powered robot named the Tri-Sentinel. Loki then instructed the robot to create as much damage and mayhem as possible. The Tri-Sentinel attempted to cause a nuclear meltdown at a research facility that bordered Manhattan. The web-covered Captain Universe summoned the full power of the Enigma Force and incinerated the Tri-Sentinel in a nova like blast. After the crisis, the exhausted Spider-Man returned to normal.
The Death of a Best Friend
Harry had a new plan which he would use to kill all of his enemies at once (Spider-Man and his father's business associates). He invited everyone to a dinner in a place he wired with bombs. Spider-Man knew that something bad was going to happen, and he dropped by. Peter and Harry engaged in a battle inside the building. Harry was able to inject Peter with a drug that immobilized him but left him conscious. Harry began taunting Peter again until he realized that Mary Jane and his son, Normie, were still inside the building. Peter was able to convince Harry to save the two people that he really cared about. Upon bringing Mary Jane and Normie outside, Harry regained his sanity and realized that he had left his best friend inside to die. Harry rushed in and was able to carry Peter out before the building collapsed. As Peter was about to thank him, Harry collapsed and it was discovered that the Goblin Formula was poisoning him. Paramedics came to take Harry to a hospital, and Peter, in his Spider-Man costume, stayed by his side. Just as Harry was about to die, he confirmed to Peter that despite everything they had gone through together, they were still best friends. Harry died right afterwards in Spectacular Spider-Man #200. Harry later returned in Brand New Day with no knowledge of Peter being Spider-Man.
The Scarlet Spider and the Clone Saga
During the first Clone Saga which was published in 1975, the first Scarlet Spider was a clone of Spider-Man, created by the Jackal, Professor Miles Warren, Peter's biochemistry teacher during his college years at Empire State University. Miles was obsessed with Gwen Stacy and had created a clone of her. Spider-Man was forced to fight a clone of himself, both believing themselves to be the real Spider-Man. When a bomb went off, one of the Spider-Men was crushed and seemingly killed. The Gwen Stacy Clone asked the remaining one if he was the real one or the clone and he was momentarily stumped. He truly believed he was the real one but that could have been the result of the Jackal's programming. After pondering the thought and (seemingly) disposing of the body, he came to realize that he had strong feelings for Mary Jane. He comes to the conclusion that even though the clone had been given most of his memories, an emotional response is not something that could be programmed.
Spider-Man in Identity Crisis
Spider-Man’s Life after the Clone Saga
It would eventually be revealed that Aunt May was in fact not dead. She was actually kidnapped by Norman Osborn and the death was a hoax to torture Peter. Peter was able to rescue Aunt May and quit being Spider-Man for a while. Eventually, Peter returned to his life as Spider-Man behind Mary Jane’s back. Soon afterwards, Mary Jane was seemingly killed in a plane accident caused by a stalker. Spider-Man later discovered that Mary Jane was actually kidnapped by an unknown telepathic mutant who wanted to take over Peter's life. Eventually that telepath absorbed too much of Peter's personality, causing him to feel the guilt of kidnapping Mary Jane. He committed suicide soon after and Peter and Mary Jane were able to reunite again.
Peter later received in the mail a letter from Gwen Stacy that was written to him. There were still missing pieces of the letter, so Peter was not able to understand the letter fully. Peter asked a friend of his, detective Lamont, to try and translate the missing words that were embedded on the paper since Gwen wrote back to back on the paper. Peter was visiting Gwen’s grave when all of a sudden he was attacked by two mysterious strangers. Peter was able to escape and later received the letter. He read it and it explained that Gwen had been pregnant with twins. Peter took a DNA sample of Gwen to do a DNA test to confirm his suspicions.
Later it was revealed that the two that attacked Peter were Gwen’s twin children and that their father was Norman Osborn. The twins grew at an accelerated speed due to the goblin formula inside Norman. Norman had told the twins that Spider-Man was their biological father and was the one responsible for their mother’s death. They eventually came back to battle Spider-Man, claiming a vendetta against him.
Peter was eventually offered a membership in the New Avengers. Later Peter’s apartment and Aunt May’s house were both destroyed by a super-powered person named Charlie Weiderman, a former classmate of Peter who had enlisted Peter's help in developing vibranium suits for the armed forces. Tony Stark offered Peter and his family residence in Stark Tower since Peter now worked for Tony Stark anyway. Peter continued to teach at Midtown High School and also resumed his freelance photography for the Daily Bugle.
Spider-Man: The Other
Peter had began suffering from headaches, blackouts, and dizziness. He had also been having dreams of Morlun putting him in a morgue. Later Spider-Man fought a new villain named Tracer. Tracer was robbing a bank and Spider-Man came to stop him. The two fought, and Tracer shot a homing bullet at Spider-Man. The bullet eventually struck Spider-Man in the shoulder, and Tracer was able to escape. Mary Jane saw the battle live on television and rushed home to confront Peter about it. Peter went to Dr. Castillo, whom Captain America had recommended, to heal his wound. Dr. Castillo took a blood sample of Peter for a test. She later called Peter and told him that she had bad news. Mary Jane eventually caught Peter and confronted him, telling him that he was asking for a death wish. Peter was forced to confess to Mary Jane about the news he had received from Dr. Castillo. Later May woke up and walked to the kitchen where she ran into Peter. Peter yells at Aunt May, told her to not worry about anything, and left to help out the disastrous city. Spider-Man encountered one of Tracer’s robots and battled it in the city, then all of a sudden he lost his powers. Morlun then confronted Spider-Man and taunted him. Peter eventually returned home and found Aunt May talking to the Tracer, who had told her that he was a “reserve Avenger.” Peter fought the Tracer, but when Tracer discovered Peter’s health condition, he refused to fight Spider-Man and eventually escaped. Peter then proceeded to tell Aunt May about his current condition.
Morlun was about to suck the rest of Spider-Man’s life force out of him but was interrupted by police officers showing up. They took the fallen hero to the paramedics and transported him to the nearest hospital. The Avengers and Mary Jane all rushed to the hospital upon hearing the news on television. Morlun returned to Spider-Man while he was unconscious in the hospital, in an attempt to finish off the job. However, Mary Jane tried to stop Morlun but he threw her across the room. Peter woke up and transformed into a spider-like beast. He attacked Morlun and pinned him to the ground. Peter then proceeded to bite Morlun in the neck and apparently killed him. Peter reverted to normal and fell in Mary Jane’s arms, in which he told her goodbye and died. Iron Man took Spider-Man’s body away to shield the public from his apparent death. His body was transported back to the Avengers Tower, where Mary Jane, Aunt May, and Jarvis were all grieving. Mary Jane decided to talk to Captain America and Iron Man if they should reveal his identity to the world or not. Mary Jane later talked to Spider-Woman who reveals that something was not right with Peter. She claimed that they might have a connection somehow because their powers had originated from some kind of irradiated spider. Later they heard a crashing sound in the chamber where Peter’s body was and believed that someone might have stolen the body. However, they deduced that there was only skin left and the window had broken from the inside, leaving them with a mystery. It was later revealed that Peter was in a webbing cocoon somewhere underneath a bridge. Peter was sleeping for days in his cocoon talking to his subconscious mind. The voice in his mind claimed to be the Other part of Spider-Man. It claimed that Peter had rejected the Spider part of himself for his entire life, and that Morlun killed his human self, but the Spider lived on and killed Morlun. It then told Peter that the only way to be reborn was to accept his spider part. Peter agreed and was resurrected back to his human form. He returned to the Avengers Tower to relieve Mary Jane and Aunt May. Peter then returned to the room that stored his body and took back his wedding ring.
Tony Stark began running tests on Peter worried that he might be a clone, but it appeared that he was the real deal. Also a bonus was that every injury he has sustained in the past was repaired, even his tonsils that he had removed in the fourth grade were back. Peter then swings around the city with Mary Jane, meanwhile there were pirate spiders eating up Peter’s old body. Upon returning to the Avengers Tower, he discovers it covered completely in webbing. Peter goes inside and engages against the pirate spiders who took Peter’s form by using his old dead shell. Peter’s stingers reappear again and he continues to battle the pirate spiders and eventually chases it down to a church. Peter believed that this was the Other that his subconscious was talking about. Peter, still confused, hears an explosion nearby and rushes to it to find people trapped under debris. While Spider-Man tries to rescue the people, he discovers he has new abilities that allow him night vision, he can feel all vibrations through his webbing, and Peter now also has the ability to spin webs on his own and no longer needs web shooters. Spider-Man is successful in rescuing all the people and Peter finally understands that he gained new abilities because he is now “embracing the Other.”
Spider-Man in Civil War
With the public revelation of his secret identity, Peter sees his world falling apart around him like never before. People thought that by registering, superheroes have to publicly unmasked themselves, as the public has christened the act as "pulling a Parker." Old friends and old enemies alike are baffled and hurt by the years of secrecy. J. Jonah Jameson's hatred of Spider-Man flares up like never before, only this time directed at Peter. Doc Ock violently attacks Peter
believing that through Peter's whole adult life he has been made a joke of, Black Cat thought that they shared a bond knowing his identity, which she described as "sexy" and Norman Osborn said that Spider-Man "broke the rules." Other enemies now knowing Parker's true identity begin to launch attacks on the friends and family that are closest to him. In order to protect those he loves, Peter with his wife and Aunt move into Stark Tower, giving them protection during the day when Peter is out with Tony.
Back In Black
Peter is now in a place that he has not been before. The shock and emotions caused by the tragedy have made him want to reflect his inward state by seeking out his old, black and white costume (a costume which he had originally put away because he did not like what its appearance reflected). Again donning his old suit, Peter is out for revenge against those who would threaten his family. Spider-Man begins to search for the sniper that shot Aunt May, eventually tracking him down at the train station trying to flee the city. However, before Spider-Man could catch him, the sniper was killed by another hitman. There was no trace of the hitman anywhere, so Spider-Man decides to return to the hospital. Then a surprise drops in for Peter, the sniper was taken to the same hospital as Aunt May, meaning the hitman must be there to make sure his hit is dead. Peter catches the hitman talking to someone on the phone, he takes the phone and discovers that the mastermind behind this is the Kingpin. The two exchange harsh words for a bit, then Peter takes the hitman to the sewers, where he tells him to spread the word to the criminal underworld that his family is off limits. Afterwards, Peter returns to the hospital and Mary Jane tells him that it could get suspicious that they are paying the medical bill with cash. Peter remembers that he once gave Aunt May a blood transfusion that saved her life. MJ had to grab some items from the hospital for Peter to do it. After giving the blood transfusion, he goes straight to Ryker's Island, where he confronts the Kingpin face to face. Peter arrives at Ryker's Island while the prisoners are freed from their cells and spots Kingpin leaving in his classic white suit. Peter drops down and tells Kingpin "End of the road Fisk. You. Me. RIGHT NOW." Fisk begins to taunt Peter, but an enraged Spider-Man completely destroys the Kingpin and tells him that he'll let him live with his defeat and when Aunt May dies, he's coming back to finish what they started. After this occurrence, Peter went to go check on Aunt May who was still in the hospital. Everything was falling apart on Peter, and he needed to move Aunt May, ASAP. He committed 9 felonies the night he moved Aunt May and figured something out. Peter realized that after all his years of fighting criminals, he finally became what he wanted to put away in jail.
Other Events During Back in Black
During the Back in Black series, children were being abducted and given a serum that gave the powers similar to Spider-Man. However, the serum was mutating the kids and dozens of teens were dressed in Spider-Man outfits and eventually filled the police precinct. One of the teenagers mutated to a new level and become a disfigured mess resembling "Spider-X". After convincing Doctor Curt Connors to help find a cure, Peter also was assisted by Reed Richards to cure the infected teens. Spider-Man went to track down who was responsible for the mess. The evidence eventually led to Mr. Hyde, one of Pete's villains and after a brief battle, Spider-Man subdued a blind Mr. Hyde after a soon to be infected teen tossed acid on Mr. Hyde as an act of revenge, (Hyde convinced the student that he killed his mother).
Another one of Peter's adventures was when Sandman came to Spider-Man's home and asked for help because his father was to be executed unfairly. So, being the kind person Spider-Man is, he agreed to help Sandman save his father. Peter and Sandman met up with another individual who found the dead Uncle Ben and told them about it. He accompanied them to Midtown High, (Peter's old school where he was now a chemistry teacher). An investigation led them into the school where they were confronted by the Chameleon from the year 2211 and he admitted to framing Sandman's father and killing the man Sandman's father was accused of killing. The Chameleon was killed during the battle between Peter, Sandman and himself. Later on, Sandman's father was broken out of prison and proven innocent.
Peter also continued his role on the New Avengers and helped them fight crime underground. When they learned one of their teammates, Maya Lopez aka Echo, was kidnapped by Elektra and The Hand in Japan, the group traveled there to rescue her. In Japan, they seek the help of the Silver Samurai, who was still bitter over the fact that Wolverine cut off one of his hands. While they were trying to rescue Echo, they discover that the Hand had manipulated Maya into fighting them. Eventually the Secret Avengers were able to defeat Elektra and the Hand, however, Elektra turned out to be a Skrull.
Now with the realization that a Skrull was able to infiltrate the Hand, the entire team became skeptical of the Civil War and even of their own teammates. Their plane would lose power and caused them to crash land. After defeating The Hood's Gang, they were tipped off by Spider-Woman to investigate a crashed Skrull spaceship. When they got there, they came face to face with the Mighty Avengers, they almost fought if not for what they saw in the ship; it held some of the superheroes, including an unconscious Spider-Man. The Spider-Man in the Skrull ship persuaded the two Avengers team that he is the real Spider-Man, but when he was killed, he reverted back into a Skrull. When Spider-Man got knocked out of the battle, he confronted Ka-zar and Shanna where he accused them to be Skrulls. But when the Captain America from the Skrull ship came, he blamed Spider-Man for being a Skrull, even though the Spider-Man that came from the spaceship is confirmed to be a Skrull. When Spider-Man was told that the natives of the Savage Land were fighting the Skrulls posing as fellow natives, he was fighting Captain America. He was then pricked by a poison dart that renders any Skrull to come back to their original appearance. Captain America suffered a seizure then reverted into his Skrull form, as does the other Savage Land natives who were actually Skrulls. Spider-Man was not affected by the poison, again confirming that he is the original. The two Avenger teams eventually got back to New York for the final battle against their invading Skrull empire.Spider-Man in One More Day
When the doctors continued telling Peter that there was nothing they can do for May, Pete went to the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange and was also back in his red and blue costume. Strange was telling Peter that there was nothing he can do to help May because it was part of her destiny. However, Spider-Man wouldn't take no for an answer and Strange allowed Peter to go through time and space to ask for answers. After asking everybody available, the wallcrawler's connection had to be cut. When Strange left the room, Parker went back to the moment of May's shooting to try and stop it, until he was attacked by odd creatures that existed on the edge of time who's soul purpose was to make sure destiny and fate wasn't thrown off. They attacked Peter, harming his "spirit form" causing the webslinger to go weak. Strange casts a spell to help Peter heal and after a few minutes, it was successful. Dr. Strange told Spider-Man that there was nothing he can do and to just stay with May in her final hours because he would grow to regret it. Peter left the Sanctum Sanctorum and then he was approached by a young girl in red.
After several hours thinking it over Peter and Mary Jane agree to Mephisto's deal, but Mary Jane makes another deal with Mephisto offering him something, but it isn't revealed to the reader. Mephisto informs them that the little girl Peter saw was the possible child the two could have had together. Mephisto explains that theirs is a love that appears "but once every thousand years, and denying it to He whom I hate most" is his real goal. Mary Jane tells Peter that they will find each other again. Peter wakes up the next morning in Aunt May's house. All the events of the past twenty years are gone, Peter revealing his identity to Aunt May, him unmasking, his organic webs and his marriage to Mary Jane. Peter rushes off to a surprise birthday party for Harry Osborn (who didn't die in this timeline). Harry is in a relationship with a woman named Lily Hollister and it seems Mary Jane is angry with Peter about something, but the reader isn't told what. She soon leaves the party and they all have a toast to a "Brand New Day"!
Spider-Man in Brand New Day
Daily Bugle: Calling All Spiders!!!
The story arc begins with an image of Peter kissing a young woman in a club. It then flashes back to a man robbing another man in a Spider-Man mask. However, despite the Spider-Mugger, street and superhuman crime had been down to a low. A new hero named Jackpot went on record stating this to be a isolated issue when a reporter was interrupted by J. Jonah Jameson. Jameson began to rant on about Spider-Man, but the reporter reminded him that Spider-man hadn't been seen in months and that without Spider-Man his paper has lost circulation, but he gave no comment. Peter is currently living with Aunt May again and is looking for a job and an apartment. Betty Brant called him saying she had found one in his price range, but the owner wanted the money tomorrow. Peter attempted to get a job as a teacher, photographer, and a lab assistant, but he was turned down by each one. He was called by Harry wanting to know if he wanted to out to a club tonight and he said yes. Meanwhile a detective was giving a suitcase to a group of men working for a criminal named Mister Negative. Mister Negative appeared when his men didn't pay the detective and he killed them for giving him a bad reputation and paid the detective. He opened the case and revealed a tablet written in some ancient dialect and stated he needed some one who knows foreign languages. Peter was shown kissing the girl from earlier. Her name was Mia Flores and she was revealed to have been trying to get into Harry's group of friends. Peter left the club out the bathroom window and bumped into Lily Hollister's friend Carlie Cooper.
Spidey freed Bruno and realized Mr. Negative intended to kill the other Maggia bosses and Spidey went to save them, but Negative had already set up his poison and it began to fill the room. However Spidey realized the poison was DNA specific. An adopted member of the family told Spidey to save their children and wives who went to a circus. Spidey ran out of webbing and literally had to hope on a cab to get to the circus he arrived and battled Negative's men and stopped his second bomb. However Negative held an innocent girl by knife point and promised to kill her if Spider-Man didn't give him a sample of his blood for his poison. He did, but Mr. Negative threw her into the ocean. Spidey saved her and then left. Meanwhile Mr. Negative was revealed to be Martin Li, the man who runs May's shelter. Later Peter picked up his tracer signal and found the Spider-Mugger dead. He reclaimed his web shooter and left.
After reclaiming his web shooter, Spider-Man continued his normal day to day life until he saw a newspaper that accused him of being a killer because the body of the person who stole his web shooter and who he placed a tracer on was found dead (the same guy he reclaimed his shooter from). Spider-Man swung around town like a man possessed trying to find out who the killer was and at the same time he wanted to find out who was this new Goblin like threat known simply as " Menace". Menace was spotted by the wall-crawler and was instantly confronted by Spider-Man. The webslinger landed on Menace's glider and tried pulling his mask off, but for all his efforts and spider-strength, it was all done in vain. Menace tried lashing out at Peter and succeeded. Due to some kind of substance on the spikes on his outfit, Menace was able to paralyze and incapacitate Spider-Man, dropping him about 20-30 feet into the water below. Peter, struggling to climb out of the river and was once again confronted by Menace who threatened the wall-crawler and told him that if he interfered with his actions, that Spider-Man would die, something that "Norman couldn't do".
Kraven First Hunt
New Ways To Die
Spider-Man later had to rescue a group of jurors riding in the subway train from the Shocker, who was hired to eliminate the jurors by a mobster. The wallcrawler
Spidey meets the President
In Washington, Peter was assigned to take pictures of the inauguration of Barack Obama, the first African-American president. Outside of the Capitol Building, Peter was running late for the inauguration ceremony and he forgot his credentials as a photographer. He sneaked inside using his spider powers but he saw Senator John McCain and thought that he saw him used his powers. But he was actually an admirer of his for the picture of Spider-Man in the Daily Bugle. The senator gave him his credential that he had forgotten and awaited for the president to be sworn in. When the president-elect arrived, Peter was ready to take pictures of him, but when another Barack Obama arrived at inauguration, Peter became suspicious and his spider sense went off.
Spider-Man's Character Assassination
Spider-Man is seen trying to escape the police after he was deemed the prime suspect of a string of murders with all the victims having a spider-tracer attached in their body. He was then shot in the right arm but manage to escape. When Carlie Cooper discovered a bag full of spider-tracers under the bed of Vin Gonzales, she hypothesizes that the police might be responsible for the murders and Spider-Man is being set up. When Menace returns to attack Hollister's campaign supporters, Spider-Man came to the rescue, but due to his weakened state, he was easily defeated by Menace and ended up being arrested by the arriving police. When the police was interrogating Spider-Man, the chief was about to pull out his mask to reveal his identity, but he was stop by Spider-Man's lawyer, Matt Murdock. he
24/7
When Spider-Man met up with the new mayor of New York city, former Daily Bugle editor-in-chief, J. Jonah Jameson, he talk to him about a truce between them. But Jameson only replied by dispatching a special squad trained to capture him. When he escape, Spider-Man decided that he will doing superheroics all week long just to make Jameson mad. Peter goes as Spider-Man and after three days comes back home. After taking a shower,
American Son
Spider-Man confronts his former archenemy when he was asking Harry to be recruited on the Dark Avengers. They both fought with Spider-Man clearly having the advantage. But when Spider-Man was about to finish Norman off, Harry spoke to the phone and told his father that he accepts his invitation. This left Spider-Man both angered and disappointed, not knowing that his best friend is with his fiance, Lily Hollister. Fearing for the safety of Harry and his father's plans for him, Spider-Man kidnaps and imprisons Venom with the help of the Invisible Woman. Spider-Man then poses as the Venom and sneaks in the Avengers Tower where he battled the Dark Avenger's Wolverine, Daken, whom he defeated. When Spider-Man confronted Harry, but he was shot in the legs by Hawkeye, who is actually Bullseye. Spider-Man beg Harry not to trust his father, but Norman silenced him by punching him
Last Legs
Once more Spider-Man and Daredevil team up against a bar full of super villains, or at least lesser known rouges. Afer winning Daredevil and Spidey meet up at a rooftop, where Spider-man decides to tell Daredevil his secret identity. Daredevil stops him and mentions that somehow his powers are blocking him from knowing so that means he shouldn't really know. Daredevil swings away while Peter enters the offices of Front Line to give the picture of the most recent heroic effort of Spider-Man. Both Robbie Robertson and Norah leave the Front Line to go to J.J.J Sr. and May's Rehearsal Dinner, something that Peter fails to go to because he was at the paper. From various monitors one of May's old flames is watching closely, Doctor Octopus. The next day is the wedding but everything goes wrong, The catering service is shut down, the ceremony performer is no longer certified, and the marriage license record is erased. Jonah Sr. thinks of this as an act of his son and confronts him on a press conference about Swimsuit models. May goes to the cemetery and confronts her husband's grave asking if it is right for her to be married and doubts the fact she has his blessing. Peter tries to invite Carlie Cooper as his "plus one " for the wedding but she tells him she already has an invitation and a plus one. They both agree on meeting up at Jonah Sr.'s apartment after May tell Peter something terrible has happened. As Spider-Man he heads there but is confronted with the city. New York starts attacking Spidey and the man behind it is reveals himself as Doctor Octopus. Carlie goes to the apartment and instead of Peter finds Norah trying to break in. They both enter the apartment to find it trashed completely. Since New York is out to get Spider-Man (or at least Doctor Octopus controlling the New York) and he is endangering innocent people the New Avengers join in the fight to protect him. At the same time the Fantastic Four are trying to stop this their own way. Carlie and Norah are on the investigation on what happened to JJJ Sr. and get caught during it all. Peter listens through the phone as Carlie and Norah get taken away and heads to the FF for help. Johnny decides to help since he thinks the girls Peter knows are hot. They both track the girls into Doc Ock's lair where it's discovered Doc Ock has four extra arms and his body is no longer functioning, as in Doc Ock is now just a machine. Carlie, Norah and Jonah are made undergo the same process but The Human Torch and Spider-Man free them. After a heated battle between the Doc and Spidey, Octavius flees along with his new machinery. With his brains Spider-Man stops New York from going haywire using Reed Richards methods before he can apply them himself. The Wedding is back on and even Johnny Storm is going, as Carlie Cooper's "plus one". Back at his
Red Headed Stranger
After his aunt's wedding Peter wakes up from a horrible hangover. To his surprise he doesn't wake up alone, Michelle Gonzales, his date for the wedding wakes up next to him. Peter barely being able to wake up from his hangover tells Michelle he can't remember anything, so she storms out of his room with nothing but a sheet over her. Peter remembers that there was someone important at the wedding and Mary Jane's picture pops into his head. He remembers talking to her until he was far from sober and remembers making a date with her to meet somewhere, sometime. He was so drunk he forgets those details. Thinking that after the night before Michelle is pretty much going to kick him out of the apartment he tries to meet up with Harry and see if he can stay with him a couple of days. The Parker luck gets to him when he figures out Harry Osborn is MIA and has moved out of his apartment. He tries with Betty Brant but Batty has taken a roommate already, Glory Grant. Then he tries Aunt May's house, since she is on her honeymoon he figures he could stay there a few nights. Again no luck since the Reilly's are staying over. He swings across the city while he tries to remember the place he was
- Tenth of September -
The Chameleon is back and his methods are getting worse. As his methods to take over a "new face" he listens to recorded phone calls and mimics the person while the person who's life he's about to take is tied on a chair. Then he uses some kind of goop on the person's face to get his mask. Then he kills the person in a tank of acid.
Over at 47th street in the Diamond District, Spider-Man is fighting Slyde, a supposed dead villain. In the end Slyde was an under cover cop sent by Mayor J. Jonah Jameson along with a whole new lot of Spider-Slayers. Spidey gets away, and arrives as Peter for a job interview, Mayor J. Jonah Jameson as his legal photographer. This job meant working under Jameson's secretary Glory Grant.
Once out, and scoring getting the job Peter's Spidey's Sense started tingling and a man dressed as the Statute of Liberty incapacitates Peter.
In the ambulance the "statue" reveals itself as the Chameleon, taking the new Mayor's photographer.
Over at the Coffee Bean Mary Jane visits the new janitor, Harry Osborn and finds out he's living there at the coffee place.
The Chameleon then takes over his methods on Peter. Then as Peter descends in the acid tank MJ calls Peter's cell phone. Mj tells the Chameleon, posing as Peter Harry's status and asked for a date. Then Peter (Chameleon) agrees to meet Mary Jane while in the acid tank Peter, apparently disintegrates.
The Chameleon is now stalking Mary Jane as Peter. He also makes out with Michelle Gonzales. (Peter's roommate). Spider-Man survived the acit pit by webbing himself up. The chameleon later on is then shown tto be teaming up with Kraven's widow, which will set up the Gauntlet.
A villian from the clone saga days known as Kaine, who was originally killed by Deadpool, comes back to get his revenge on Peter, at the same time Raptor is trying to kill him, believing he is Ben Reily.
Powers of Spider-Man
Spider-Sense
Wall Crawling
Perhaps as remarkable as his clinging ability itself is the ease with which Spidey can use it. There is never any hint of strain, or difficulty in his climbing to walls or ceilings. In fact, he is just as much at home on any surface as an actual Spider would be.
No one knows exactly how Spider-Man's wall-crawling ability works. Peter Parker has often theorized that he has a form of bio-magnetic power that allows him to increase the attraction between the molecules in his body with those of the surfaces he climbs. On a History Channel special about Spider-Man, scientists had come up with a theory that the wall clinging is technically possible for Spider-Man. They believe that Spider-Man's wall-clinging ability is similar to a certain spider that emits very thin strands of hair on it's feet, allowing it to cling on all kinds of surface including glass. All that is known for certain is that he can stick to anything. No matter how smooth or slippery a surface may be, Spidey can attach himself to the surface. He just has to keep concentrating until he bonds with it. Unlike his spider-sense, the web head's clinging power is strictly a conscious act. He can never stick to something by accident. He must deliberately press his hands against an object and choose to adhere to it. Of course, Spidey likes to show off as much as the next fellow. He occasionally runs upside down along a ceiling or strides up a wall. Peter can now stick to things throughout his whole body. He is also able to stick things onto his body, like a spider does for it's young. This was shown in the last issue of the Other.
Spider-Man's Strength and Agility
Shortly after he was bitten by the radioactive spider that gave him his amazing powers, Peter Parker accidentally crushed a steel pipe as if it was paper. He was astonished to discover that he now possessed superhuman strength. Since then, Spider-Man has often told people that he has the proportionate strength of a spider.(Although it also should be noted the strength could come more from the radiation) Spider-Man's super strength adds to his durability as strength usually does makes his muscle and tissue density super durable, although he still not invulnerable. While not as strong as the Incredible Hulk, the Mighty Thor, or the Thing, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is able to lift almost 10 tons. He can bend a solid iron bar with his bare hands and shatter a concrete wall with a single punch. And in one, spider-powered spring, he has leaped the height of three stories, or the width of a highway. After the Other Spider-Man's strength was increased to 20 tons, but due to Mephisto erasing his marriage he has his original strength back.
Even more impressive than his spider-like strength is Spider-Man's amazing speed and agility. When it comes to quick-thinking, death-defying, lightning-swift acrobatic stunts, the wall-crawling wonder is truly without equal. Spider-Man moves with a fluid and casual grace that can't be equaled by trained super-humans such as Captain America or Daredevil. He dodges bullets and energy blast mid flight, runs faster then a car and web swings faster then that, leaps from rooftops, somersaults over flagpoles, tumbles off water towers, and balances on top of light poles as he routinely travels across the city in his own unique manner. Spider-Man's reflexes were originally 15 times that of a normal humans, they are now around 18 times.
Webbing
Night Vision
Stingers
Spider-Man grew retractable stingers that appear from under his wrists. The stingers are covered in venom and can paralyze a person. Spider-Man has trouble controlling them and they only appear in serious moments of stress however Miss Arrow said they would only appear when facing someone rooted in chaos and darkness. Whether this is true is unknown. Since Brand New Day it is hard too see if Spidey still has them.
Healing Factor
After being attacked by Rhino recently Spider-Man says that he has been healing far faster than he used to which was already super humanly fast do to his metabolism. He also entered into a state of hibernation were all old wounds were healed such as his lost eye and even his lost tonsils. Whether this will happen again is unknown.Characteristics of Spider-Man
Height: 5'10"Weight: 170 lbs (77 kg)
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown
Mutations of Spider-Man
Six Arm Spider-Man
Spider-Hulk
Spider-Hulk
When Hulk shows up in Connecticut, Armad tracks him down and tries to absorb his power. Hulk wakes up, kills him and Spider-Man, who have been following reports of a wild beast in the New England wilderness, gets stuck with Armad's energy packed device. Hulk nearly drowns him, then leaves, and Peter heads back to New York feeling woozy and uncomfortable. Confronted on a rooftop by a pair of security guards, Spidey gets angry and bam! He's a big green guy in a little red suit. Spider is the strongest one there is! When Spider gets angry, Spider gets strong! Spider SMASH! Obviously he eventually gets the excess energy drained from him.
Spider-Carnage
Spider-Lizard
When Peter tried to help cure Curt Connors of his Lizard persona, Spider-Man accidentally absorbed radioactive feedback from the machine they were using, transferring the reptilian skills to himself. After a battle with the Schizoid Man, Spider-Man turned into Spider-Lizard. While the police and SWAT tried to drown the creature by flooding the city sewers, Curt Connors managed to find a cure and turn Spider-Man to his normal self.
Spider-Phoenix
Yet another one of Spider-Man's transformations, for this one he turned into Phoenix after she was apparently killed. Soon after he turned into Spider-Phoenix, all of his deadliest foes began to attack him. It turned out that it was merely a sophisticated illusion created by Arcade, with technology he had won in a trade with a visiting off-world soldier.
Spider-Morphosis
The supervillain Plantman infected the mutant Synch with a mutagenic pollen, as revenge for a previous defeat by Generation X. The pollen transformed Synch into a giant, misshapen beast. When Spider-Man confronted Synch, he was also trapped by Plantman and transformed. Fortunately, although he was a monster, Spider-Man kept his intelligence. Spider-Man exposed Plantman to the same pollen that had transformed him and Synch, and was able to get the antidote.
The OtherOther
When Peter was overcome with rage when Morlun attacked Mary Jane he lost himself to the "Other" and his teeth become razor sharp, his eyes became red and his stingers first appeared. Since his other powers remained his other may still be able to control him in times of crisis. Since the events of One More Day, it is hard to tell if Peter still has these powers.
Spider-Man's Skills
On top of his spider-given powers Peter is of genius level intelligence It has even been stated that Peter scored as high on some of the same testing scores as Reed Richards did when he was Peter's age. He is especially gifted in the sciences such as mechanics, biology and physics. He has built many devices in his career as Spider-Man and is a skilled photographer and teacher. He has developed a unique style of combat through his years. Spider-Man while not having been train has went toe toe with even the best marvel fighters. His spider-sense alone is like a close combat expert provided with Spider-Man's reflexes and split second quickness. His spider-sense tells peter when and how to move and counter adaptively to even the best fighter's moves if peter should choose to just fight solely on those instincts. Spider-man is also use to fighting and teaming up with most of the super villains and heroes in the marvel universe and has often uses his mind to over come many battles with physics used as tactical skills, quick witted thinking, outside the box and/or ingenuity and science in sometimes short instances (think MacGyver) Peter has a great sense of right and wrong and though rarely is he ever a leader he has shown great common sense and is very inspiring and is admired by many young heroes and given the chance can prove his worth.. He has even shown some skill in Latin recently.Spider-Man's Equipment
Web Shooters
As a brilliant science student, Spider-Man has devoted long hours of study to learning everything he can about spiders. Although it is not a matter of
By adjusting the nozzle of his web-shooter in one easy motion, Spidey can eject his web fluid in any one of the three different ways:
- As a thin, incredibly strong line
- As a fine, quick-spreading spray
- As a thick, tremendously adhesive liquid.
Defensively Spider-Man has used his webbing as a web shield against bullets, energy blast and to smother explosives or to block gun holes. Making the webbing used for this extra dense with lots of coil over coil tightly over the other. (webshield/explosive smothering)
Utility Belt
Spider-Man’s utility belt allows him to carry any necessary equipment he needs when he goes out on patrol. It can carry extra web cartridges, spider-tracers, and his camera. The belt also has a powerful light that is connected to the belt’s buckle. The light is also filtered through a lens that creates a picture of Spider-Man’s mask, which he uses to scare regular criminals.
Spider-Signal
Spider-Man's spider signal is to signal out villains. He uses it in the Spectacular Spider-Man series. He uses it before he captured Flint Marko and Alex O'Hirn. It can also be used in darkness to help light the place up, and to let police officers and other such law enforcers know that he is near.
Spider-Tracer
The Spider-Tracer is a typical tracker that is shaped liked a spider and is aerodynamic for flight. The tracers are very small so it will not be noticed when attached on a person. He usually uses the tracers to track objects or people. He also uses it on enemies that are escaping in order for Spider-Man to track them easier. It was originally a small signal tracer, but eventually Peter was able to modify his tracers for him to be able to track it using his spider-sense. However, he can only track it with his spider-sense within a 100 yard radius, but he also has a receiver that can trace at longer distances. Ben Reilly (Scarlet Spider) has also been shown to be able to sense the tracers with his spider-sense. Peter has made a modified version of the spider-tracer for Mary Jane to wear on her necklace. She began using this after she was kidnapped by an obsessed fan.
Camera
Since Peter became a freelance photographer for the Daily Bugle, he sells pictures of Spider-Man to J. Jonah Jameson. Peter originally used his father’s camera in which he would place it near the area he is going to rescue and use the webbing to hold it up somewhere. Peter eventually got better at taking pictures of himself as he was able to utilize the timer and the motion sensors of the camera. A typical tactic of Peter's is to hang the camera from a piece of webbing, and set it to take a picture at certain intervals. This saves him having to take pictures in the middle of a fight. Peter eventually upgrades his camera. Peter did not earn much at the Daily Bugle, but eventually they would publish a book that contained all his pictures, which helped him with his finances. Peter eventually won a Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the Sentry, however due to the Sentry being erased from everyone’s memory, no one, including Peter remembers about the Pulitzer Prize.Mask
The white areas in Spider-Mans eye cut-outs on his mask are really clever plastic lenses of the two-way mirror type. He can see out very clearly, but no one can see in. Therefore, he can never be recognized by the color of his eyes. These ingenious plastic lenses also protect his eyes from dust, dirt, and the glare of the sun. Spider-Man's colorful head-mask conceals his features and also effectively muffles his voice, making it unrecognizable.
Spider-Mobile
Costumes
Red & Blue
Symbiote Suit
During the Secret Wars, an omnipotent being that became known as the Beyonder transported several Heroes and Villains to a world he constructed. He wanted to witness the traits of good versus evil. He promised to give the winners whatever they wished for. After a battle, Spider-Man attempted to gain a new costume from a machine Reed Richards, the ability to appear as different clothing and produce its own webbing. Mr. Fantastic, had discovered. The result was an alien symbiote. It granted additional strength and protection. Upon returning to Earth, Spider-Man discovered that his new costume was in fact a living creature. It had been taking over Peter's sleeping body during the night and swinging through the city on its own. Spider-Man went to the Fantastic Four's headquarters to seek Reed Richards advice. They managed to separate the costume from Spider-Man, which lead to the Human Torch's attempt to further humiliate Spider-Man by forcing him to leave in the Amazing Bag-Man costume. Spider-Man continued fighting crime in a Black costume that was made sewn. When the Symbiote escaped, it sought out Spider-Man. It changed its appearance as an unsuspecting Peter put it on to go out. Spider-Man was now in a battle swinging over the city as the Symbiote wanted to bond permanently with him. Spider-Man knew that sonics and loud noise was the alien's weakness so he headed for a church bell tower. The loud ringing was enough to drive the suit away but also caused Peter to pass out. In what appeared to be its dying moments, the Symbiote dragged Peter's unconscious body safely away. Meanwhile in the church was a down-ridden Eddie Brock. Having lost his job and reputation due to an event involving Spider-Man, Brock was contemplating suicide. He was at the church, asking for forgiveness when the Symbiote detected his hatred for Spider-Man. The two soon merged and became Venom.Secret War Costume
Spider-Man's Insulated Armor
In Nick Fury's Secret War Spider-Man wore a special costume. It worked as impact armor, much like Kree army had. It is unknown what happened to the costume after the mission, probably it was destroyed to cover the tracks.
Identity Crisis Costumes
Spider-Man had to change his costume again when the Identity Crisis story arc was happening, Norman Osborn and the Trapster frames Spider-Man of murder. Spider-Man was also caught on tape assaulting Norman Osborn, which resulted in a million dollar reward for his capture. Spider-Man did the only thing he could; he donned a new costume to until he can clear his name of murder. However, Peter realizes that it would be suspicious if Spider-Man disappears and a new hero arrives with the same
powers has his, so Peter decides to don four different costumes. Peter used Hornet and Prodigy to fight crime while using Dusk and Ricochet to “pretend” to be criminals while also gaining access to the criminal underworld in order to clear his name. Hornet was one of his costumes which were designed by his wife Mary Jane. It contained weapon gauntlets which were based on the Scarlet Spider’s stingers, and it also contained wings that were controlled through the harness created by the Prowler. The Hornet became very popular with the public and the media, but during a fight with the Vulture, the Vulture figures out that Hornet was really Spider-Man and exposes him. Prodigy was also designed by Mary Jane and it was padded to make Peter look bigger then he originally is. He also wore armor that were bullet proof. His “evil” persona is Ricochet, the costume was also designed by Mary Jane. He wore a jacket with an “R” on his chest, Peter also uses weapons and relies mainly on his agility in this persona. The last persona is Dusk, Peter pretended to be a mercenary with a more serious personality unlike his usual “joker” self. While being Dusk, Peter would eventually team up with the Trapster himself and discover that he was the one that framed him. After Peter was able to clear his name, he abandons all four personas, but these costumes was taken over by Black Marvel, who gave them to four individuals to form the Slingers.
Cosmic Spidey
Captain Universe
The Uni-Power bestow the Enigma Force on an individual to become Captain Universe. In the Acts of Vengeance storyline, Spider-Man became Captain Universe to fight Loki's creation, the Tri-Sentinel and again, with the help of Nova, finally destroying the robot. The Enigma Force boost Spider-Man base powers to astronomical levels, his spider-sense was increase to the point that the sensation has become painful, fire concussive blast from his hands, and manipulate the form of his webbing.Daredevil's Costume
Spider-Man once wore a costume of Daredevil to the public to prove that Matt Murdock (Daredevil's alter ego) and Daredevil are two different people. When the daughter of Kraven, Ana, stole his costume, Spider-Man had to borrow Daredevil's costume again.
Amazing Bag-Man?
Scarlet Spider Costume
This costume was worn only couple of times by Peter Parker, when Ben Reilly took his place in prison. Later Ben resumed using this costume. Ben obtains this costume when he was forced back into action because “With great power, comes great responsibility.” Ben decides to help people with one of his extra Spider-Man tig hts but makes a little difference with a sweater he found at the mall that had a giant spider symbol on it. He also wears his webshooter on his wrist outside his costume, that doesn't only shoots webbing but also a special dense ball of web called impact webbing that Ben use to knock out or smother an enemy into a big blob of web and he also use miniature darts coated with a chemical that incapacitates an enemy which he calls "stingers" that he also shoots from this webshooters. When Ben took the mantle of Spider-Man, he revamped the original costume to have a giant Spider symbol on his chest and used web-shooters on the outside like his Scarlet Spider costume.Fantastic Four Costume
Peter briefly wore the costume of the Fantastic Four with a paper bag to cover his identity. This happened right after Reed Richards discovers that the symbiote costume is an alien life-form, they took it off and Peter had no costume to hide his identity. Johnny Storm decides to let him use one of the Fantastic Four costumes and he decides to use a paper bag to cover his face to temporarily fight crime until he gets another costume.
Armored Spider-Man
Negative Zone costume
Negative Zone
In one occasion, Spider-Man entered The Negative Zone to rescue three children trapped there. When he entered, his normal red-and-blue costume changed to a black-and gray colored one. The place where the part of the costume is colored red is now black and the where was the blue colored section is now gray. The webbing outline also disappeared.
Protective Wear
Spider-Man wore a short-lived silver colored armor suit that was made in the Empire State University laboratory. It protected him from high-caliber bullets but it slowed his agility because of its weight and it is also vulnerable to acid. He also created an electricity-insulated version of the costume to fight Electro.
Iron Spider
After Peter gained additional powers from the Other, Tony Stark gave Spider-Man a new costume, the Iron Spider. The armor enhances his already formidable strength and agility as well as giving him a set of retractable spider legs or "waldoes". Tony said that the waldoes are to fragile to be used in battle, but Spider-Man reluctantly used it to battle Titanium Man and later, Captain America during the Civil War. The suit enhances Spider-Man's abilities with some modifications that Tony Stark enjoys as Iron Man such as tracking technology, vitals monitors, wings that give him the ability to glide, and a bullet-proof exterior. Tony put a failsafe mechanism in the Iron Spider costume should he go rogue during the Civil War, which he did after seeing the conditions of the captives in the Negative Zone
The Iron-Spider costume would later be used for the Scarlet Spiders of Tony Stark's Initiative program.
Final Costume?
When Spider-Man had a mystical experience where he witnessed the beginning and the end of his superhero career, he witnessed his future self sporting a new costume that is a utilitarian reversible jacket. Later, the superhero tailor, Leo Zelinsky gave the design of the said costume to Spider-Man and even offered him a discount, without the knowledge of Spider-Man's epiphany.
Spider-Man in Alternate Universes
Ultimate Spider-Man (Earth-1610)
Peter Parker is a fifteen year old teenager that attends Midtown High School in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. Peter is extremely intelligent which is similar to his scientist father Richard Parker. After Peter’s parents died, he went to live with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. During a field trip to Osborn Industries, Peter is bitten by a genetically altered spider. Peter faints and eventually re-awakens to find out he has new abilities. He gained increased strength, agility, reflexes, spider-sense, and the ability to cling on walls. Peter would become a wrestler to pay off medical bills when Flash Thompson breaks his hand on Peter. When a thief was running away, Peter refused to stop him which would lead to extreme consequences. That very same robber that Peter let go would eventually kill his Uncle Ben. A guilty Peter then modifies his costume and dedicates his life to doing good. Peter would continue his life as a normal teenage kid and tries to balance it with fighting crime
Peter also meets a thief named Black Cat who hates Kingpin and is black-mailed by Osborn and his "Six" to attack the President but hes arrests them again with the Ultimates' help. Peter and Gwen would live together for awhile and she would discover his secret identity too after Doc Ock escapes from SHIELD. Eventually Gwen would die at the hands of Carnage, a monster created by Doc Conners from Peter's DNA. Peter destroys Carnage by throwing him into a smoke stack. When Harry Osborn returns and had apparently turned into the Hobgoblin, Mary Jane was caught in the middle and was nearly killed. This lead to the break up of Peter and Mary Jane, Peter decided that he did not want to put Mary Jane in danger because of his alter-ego.
Peter rebounds quickly though, he began dating female X-Men, Kitty Pryde. He decides to go out with her because she can phase through solid objects and avoid getting hurt. During the clone saga, Peter was cloned multiple times by Dr. Octopus. After the issue was resolved, one clone remained living and it decided to start a new life elsewhere. That clone was altered to be female and was named Jessica Drew. Mary Jane was also kidnapped by one of the clones and turned into Demogoblin so she would be safe but the Fantastic Four cured her. After the clone saga, Peter and Mary Jane seemed to have reconciled and Peter decides to break up with Kitty, however he has not told her yet and she just transferred to Midtown High School. Peter also joined a group of heroes led by Daredevil and had the Kingpin arrested. After Aunt May recovered from the coma, Peter and Aunt May had a talk about him being Spider-Man, and Peter told her everything, from when Peter let the man who would murder Uncle Ben go, to Osborn, to the clones. Aunt May would eventually accept everything Peter told her and they continued on with their lives. Meanwhile, Norman has escaped prison again and is attempting to destroy Nick Fury's publicly. He goes on television and tells a bunch of lies about being detained without trial and being injected with untested formulas for a genetic war. Peter and Mary Jane catches part of the interview live while they were walking in town. Both of them freak out and head back home, MJ's mother picks her up and tells her that they are leaving town due to Osborn. Peter then heads home to find his Aunt with Miles Warren. After Warren leaves, Peter tells Aunt May about Norman's escape and that she has to leave to safety.
After Aunt May leaves, Peter begins his investigation by visiting one of Norman's apartments. There, he runs into Electro, who was showering at the moment. The two get into a fight, and Electro flees out into the city naked. Eventually, SHIELD agents come to aid Spider-Man, and were able to defeat Electro. However, they arrest Spider-Man also. Spider-Man soon finds himself detained by SHIELD and learns that Nick Fury is "not there at the moment," with the new SHIELD director Carol Danvers ( Ms. Marvel). She asks him some questions, and eventually gets a call about Norman. Just as she was about to say something to Peter, Kitty arrives to break him out. They get outside of the SHIELD detainment area, and are stopped by Danvers and a group of SHIELD soldiers. She tells Peter that she was using him as bait to lure Osborn, but the plans have changed and the two are required to follow SHIELD and battle Osborn right now making them both temporary SHIELD agents. They find Osborn trying to kill his former accountant, and Spider-Man engages right away. The two battle for a bit and eventually tosses each other out the window. Spider-Man's web fluids are empty due to Danvers playing around with them. Kitty catches Spider-Man and phases both of them through the ground to avoid death. After they resurface, SHIELD soldiers point guns at them and demand to know where Osborn is. Apparently, Osborn got away, and Danvers tells the soldiers to put their guns down. Peter, angry at how the SHIELD agents acted, yelled at Danvers and took Kitty home.
Peter sleeps at home alone now since Osborn is back. Luckily, there are some SHIELD agents outside his home keeping on eye on him. After Peter has a chat with the agents, he goes back into his house to discover Norman waiting for him. Norman wants Peter to reveal to the world that Norman created Spider-Man, to prove to the world that Norman is a genius and has created a great hero. A note slips under Peter's door and tells him to turn on CNN. Once he does, both he and Norman see Harry on television revealing everything about Norman. This angers Norman and he transforms into the Green Goblin, knocks Peter out and goes after Harry. He attacks the Helicarrier and Harry transforms into his Goblin form instead of getting to safety. Spider-Man soon shows up to fight Norman along with the SHIELD agents.
When Kitty Pryde heard of what happened with Liz (now Firestar) was furious and gave her baby project to Peter for him to take care of. Peter took the doll to work at the Daily Bugle. A janitor then went to J. Jonah's office after Jonah had told Betty Brant that she wasn't a good reporter. Inside the office the janitor turned out to Omega Red, mad about some news in the newspaper that made him a bad reputation. Just when he was going to get his revenge Spider-man came through the window. after an epic battle, with the occasionally joke or two Spidey won but both of them destroyed the Daily Bugle office. Along with the office so went the baby doll and Peter's G.P.A. After explaining to the teacher what had happened they both got a B. Kitty was glad while Peter mourned over his loss of an A Mary Jane now worked at the school's video pod and was working on her latest project with the help of her boyfriend.
Post-Ultimatum
It's six months after the Ultimatum wave hit and Peter Parker is working again, but not as a web designer. At Burger Frog Peter is a cashier, facing old ladies who think are being given "lip" to the boss who orders him to wear a hat. Mary jane is a reporter a for the school's student newscast in midtownhigh.com. New York is being nice to Spider-Man even when he does nothing and Gwen is kissing Peter.
One night as Spider-Man Peter finds a store where some thugs force themselves into a store where a hodded man had already done the "super hero thing" . Some cops give the glory to Spider-Man and the hooded figure watches over.
Back at home Peter finds Gwen waiting for him in the attic. She welcomes him with a kiss and before that goes any further Peter sneaks in so his Aunt May won't find them being "naughty". Aunt May tells Peter that Kitty called for him and jelously Gwen tells him that "she is probably calling to tell him she's still in love with him". Short after Johnny Storm arrives to ask for a place to stay the night and then collapes over him.
The Kingpin is back in town and when entering his office he get's thrown out of his office by a new villain, Mysterio.
Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295)
In this alternate reality, Peter Parker was an acquaintance of Gwen Stacy, a member of the Human High Council. Unfortunately, though, he would never be a member himself as he was killed in one of Apocalypse's early cullings. Strangely, though, Charles Lehnsherr, Magneto and Rogue's son, are seen wearing a Spider-Man t-shirt. This might mean that Peter was not really killed and faked his own death, or someone else took on the mantle (and similar costume) of Spider-Man.
In the "What If Legion killed both Professor X and Magneto", one of Apocalypse's band of soldiers are clones of Spider- Man with the symbiote costume.
Days of Future Past (Earth-811)
Spider-Man has retired in The Moon, along with many of the other superheroes. Magneto recruits them as a last ditch effort to combat the Sentinels, but his true plan was to get the heroes killed in order to bring back the animosity between humans and mutants.
Marvel 1602 (Earth-311)
Peter Parquagh is a relatively minor character in the events of 1602, a young apprentice in the service of Sir Nicholas Fury. a running gag is shown as he is almost bitten by spiders every time but was later bitten by a one on the last page of the first mini-series' last issue. He is also shown that he cannot climb a tree. When a spider- bit him, it gave strange powers based on the capabilities of a spider, he dons a webbed mask and calls himself "The Spider".
MC2 (Earth-982)
In the MC2 universe, the time line started 15 years before the 616 counter-part. In this continuity, during the final battle with Norman Osborn as the Green Goblin, Spider-Man lost one of his legs which forced him to retire his Spider-Man mantle. He now works as a police scientist for the police department. Later, Kaine (one of Peter's clones) would reunite Peter and Mary Jane to their long lost daughter. Their daughter was kidnapped by a con-artist under the instruction of the Green Goblin. The couple named their daughter May "Mayday" Parker. May eventually inherited all of Peter's abilities and she would don the costume of Ben Reilly to fight crime as Spider-Girl. Peter occasionally helps out his daughter with his own Spider-Man costume. Peter and Mary Jane would have another baby coming. They feared for the baby during the pregnancy due to Peter's genetic code. However, the baby was born healthy and it was a boy. They named him Benjamin Richard Parker.Gerald " Gerry" Drew, the son of the first Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew, also took the mantle of Spider-Man. Gerry is diagnosed with a blood-borne disease while still in the womb, due to his mother's history of radiation exposure. As a last resort, Jessica underwent the same experiment that gave her powers, believing that this would save him. Instead of curing his disorder, it gave Gerry spider-based powers. Gerry made his own costume and asked his mother to train him to become a superhero. When he first met Spider-Girl they didn't get along, their team-up ending disastrously as the villain they're fighting dies villain's death. Jessica found out that the powers of Gerry were actually making his illness worse and shortening his lifespan. She had to call for Julia Carpenter and Peter for help to convince her son to quit being a superhero. Gerry complied with his mother's request and approached Mr. Fantastic to cure him.
House of M (Earth-58163)
In the House of M story arc, reality had been altered to have mutants as the majority of the population, and humans as the minority. Peter Parker was a orphan at the age of six and was left to be taken care of by Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Peter attended Midtown High School where he was brilliant academically and was really good in science. Visiting an exhibit, Peter is bit on his hand by a spider that was irradiated by a particle beam. Walking through the streets, Peter is almost hit by a car but without thinking he leaps onto the side of a wall. This is when he realizes that he has powers similar to those of a spider. Testing out his new powers Peter joins a contest go up against Crusher Hogan and wins easily. There Peter would be spotted by a talent agent who promised to get Peter a t.v. appearance. Peter would create a new costume and with his new fame had promised to take care of his Aunt and Uncle. Unlike Earth-616 Spider-man, this Spider-man would stop the burglar who ran past him saving the owner of the wrestling arena thousands of dollars. As a thanks, the owner would give Peter a role as one of his wrestlers in his new wrestling league. The wrestling became a success and Peter would become famous. Also at this time a Mutant-Human War happened and Peter was considered a mutant because of his spider like abilities. He lives his life like a celebrity because he was a mutant and a hero. Gwen Stacy was still alive and the couple got married and had a boy named Ritchie. Uncle Ben, Aunt May, and Captain George Stacy are also alive and well. Peter's family gained immunity for being human due to Peter being a "mutant." As for Mary Jane, she had become one of the most famous humans on the Earth being that normal humans don't get major roles in movies. Mary Jane and Peter star in a movie together. Peter ends up not only being a pro wrestler but also an actor. Peter would also reveal to the world about his identity thanks to Uncle Ben and this would give hope to all the mutants who are unfortunate enough to look like him.. Though the war was over, however, Peter's life once again begins to unravel when his publicist, J. Jonah Jameson, finds Peter's journal and reveals to the world that Peter was not born a mutant. He also finds out the truth and that things aren't right because Gwen Stacy and Uncle Ben are both alive. Eventually reality would be restored, however Peter retained all memories of that event and will always continue to wonder what life could have been like with Gwen Stacy.
Spider-Man The Animated Series (Earth-194111)
In Spider-Man the animated series, Peter has extreme wealth and is famous and married to Gwen Stacy. Seeing MJ at his party after Madame Webb sent him after Spider Carnage in an alternate reality he told her that he loved her and MJ looked at him like he was crazy. Gwen then comes into the room and asks Peter if what he says is true, that he loves Mary Watson face and Peter realizes that that isn't his Mary Jane. The Mr. Jameson and others come into the room who all know of Spider-Man secret identity and is looking for Spider-Carnage before he destroys all of reality. William Fisk comes in and claims to be Peters lawyer and Peter uses him to get out of the room so he could go look for Spider-Carnage. Instead of finding him Fisk brings Peter into a room when Peter's spider-sense goes off and the chair holds him down. Fisk then claims that he teamed -up with Spider-Carnage to take over this Spider-Man's world and his life and again to find out that that wasn't Spider-Carnage original plan. Spider-Carnage takes Gwen Stacy hostage and says that if anyone follows him something will happen to her. Spider-man finds the one and only person who could talk some sense into Spider-Carnage who is the Scarlet-Spider that was taken over by Carnage but who is also still Peter, and brings Uncle Ben with him. Scarlet-Spider reminisce still thinking that Peter is his clone, remembers the times when he was younger and him and Uncle Ben went fishing. A young Peter is saying that he can't catch the fish because of his bad luck an
Marvel Zombies (Earth-2149)
In the Marvel Zombies universe Spider-Man has as most of earth's heroes been transformed into a zombie. He was bitten by Colonel America and although being a zombie that he is, he is still guilt-ridden by the death of Mary Jane and Aunt May, whom he ate. Spider-Man, Hulk, Luke Cage, Wolverine, Iron Man and Hank Pym became The Galactus, after eating first the Silver Surfer, then the original Galactus and gaining the power cosmic. They next targeted the Skrull planet and encountered there the Earth-616 Fantastic Four (Black Panther, Storm, Human Torch, the Thing). He is later shown to have a cybernetic prosthetic leg and a repaired mask to cover his face again. His hunger started to fade and he decided to fight his fellow Galacti, with Luke Cage at his side. Later the rest of the Marvel Zombie's hunger would fade, they would become heroes again, and later help restore the human race. Only to be sent into another dimension, by an angry human.
Marvel 2099 (Earth-928)
Main Article: Spider-Man 2099
Earth X (Earth-9997)
Peter Parker of the Earth X reality has retired from super-heroics, after his identity became publicly known, and become a New York police officer. In this reality Peter's and Mary Jane's daughter, May survived, and inherited Peter's powers. She later bonded with the Venom symbiote, but seems to be able to control it. When May became enslaved by The Skull, Peter felt he needed to be Spider-Man again, but he hadn't kept any of his old costumes, so he had to steal an old Spider-Man costume from a costume shop. Maybe he didn't have any money either? He appears to have the same powers as Earth-616 Spider-Man.
Marvel AdventuresMarvel Adventures (Earth-20051)
In the Marvel Adventures reality Spider-Man is a member of the Avengers alongside Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Wolverine, Storm and Giant Girl. Spider-Man later used Thor's Hammer in a dream or maybe for real.
Earth-5701
In this reality where Apocalypse conquered the whole world, Peter Parker was Pestilence - a Horsemen ofApocalypse. He has six arms, venomous fangs and is now a cannibal. The other horsemen were Blob (Famine), Cable (War) and Angel (Archangel in this reality and is Death).
Earth-15
Peter Parker of Earth-15 was a psychotic killer that had merged with the Carnage Symbiote. He was unhinged in time and forced to become a member of the Weapon X team that appeared in Exiles. Spider happily joined Hyperion on a goal to conquer a world. He was later killed by Firestar. Main article - SpiderMarvel 2211 (Earth-9500)
The Spider-Man of this reality is Dr. Max Borne. This reality is at the year 2211 AD. His daughter is named Robin and is Hobgoblin 2211. He was killed by Ben Parker, who is really Chameleon 2211 in his disguise.
What if? (Earth-772)
In this reality Spider-Man is a member of Fantastic Five alongside Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and Thing.
Earth-8107
In this reality Spider-Man works together with Iceman and Firestar as the Amazing Super-Friends.
Amalgam Universe (Earth-9601)
In the Amalgam Universe, Spider-Man is merged with Superboy. The new character is Peter Ross - Spider-Boy. Main Article - Spider-Boy.
Future Imperfect (Earth-9200)
In the reality of the Maestro, Spider-Man is one of the heroes that fought him and died.
Earth-6215
In the reality of the League of Losers, Spider-Man was as most other heroes, killed by the time-traveling villain Chronok.
Earth-9939
In this reality Spider-Man was a member of the Avengers alongside Captain America, She-Hulk, Doctor Strange, Wolverine, Punisher, Daredevil and Rhino. He died fighting the villain Charnel.
Spider-Man: India
Spider-Man is adapted into an Indian legend by Sharad Devarajan where Spider-Man is Pavitr Prabhakar, a poor Indian boy who lives with his Aunt Maya and Uncle Bhim and is friends with Meera Jain (Mary Jane Watson) from his school. Pavitr encountered an ancient yogi who gives him the magical powers of a spider to fight evil. While Pavitir discovers his powers, he refused to help a woman being attacked by several men.
But when his uncle got stabbed for protecting the same woman that Pavitr neglected to rescue. He understood that with great power comes great responsibility and vowed to use his powers responsively. Meanwhile, a local crime lord, Nalin Oberoi (Norman Osbourne), took possession of an demonic amulet which he use to bring the demons to the world. As Nalin was defeated by Pavitr, he touched the amulet and the demon (in the form of the Venom symbiote) tried to influence Spider-Man to become evil, but he remembered his uncle and destroyed the amulet.Marvel Mangaverse (Earth-2301)
Marvel Werewolves (Earth-2153)
In this universe, it turns out that this earth have been overrun by a virus that turns all the superhumans into werewolves. Ash Williams landed to escape the Marvel Zombies and Spider-Man and other heroes that have turned into werewolves are seen chasing after he came to their earth.Earth-32081
Earth-989192
In this reality, Spider-Man is Danny Rand's team, Heroes for Hire, and Danny still owes him moneyEarth-460
In this reality, Spider-Man is a middle age man that was killed by the Purple Man, who is the president of the world.Larval Universe (Earth-8311)
For the counterpart of Spider-Man on Earth-8311, see: Spider-Ham.
Mutant X (Earth-1298)
In this reality, Peter became the six-armed monster, Man-Spider. He was replaced by a clone, but the clone was killed along with the Green Goblin, by the Goblin Queen (Madelyne Pryor). When the Brute (this universe's version of Beast) was tried and defended by Matt Murdock, the real Man-Spider came to his defense. He was later killed along with much of the Mutant X members.
Earth-9510
In this reality where the original Fantastic Four was killed, a replacement roster was assembled consisting of Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk, and Ghost Rider as the "New Fantastic Four". They stayed together as a team but eventually broke up when they were defeated by the combined force of the Abomination, Paibok The Power Skrull, Lady Deathstrike and Devos The Devastator.
Earth-9811
In this reality where heroes and villains that participated in the Secret Wars were still trapped in Battleworld, Spider-Man is still in possession of the symbiote suit and they have fused into a single organism. Peter has become emotionally distant to the inhabitants of Battleworld and is nothing more than just a skeleton that the symbiote is using to move.
Earth-99476
In this reality, Spider-Man is turned into a dinosaur named Arachnosaur and is the member of the dinosaur version of the Fantastic Five.
What If? (Earth-938)
In this reality where Doctor Doom is the Sorcerer Supreme instead of Dr. Strange. Spider-Man is one of the heroes that helped him defeat Dormammu to save his mother soul.
Earth-244121992
In this universe, Spider-Man, Daredevil and Moon Knight tried to stop Punisher, who recently been possessed by the Venom symbiote. They subdued him, but only momentarily. It wasn't until the Punisher realized that he was being manipulated by the symbiote that he tried to kill himself and sedated the symbiote. He then promised to the heroes that he has full control of the symbiote.
Earth-4400
Spider-Man was also a member of Fantastic Five in this reality, alongside Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and Thing. They were all killed by Hyperion and Weapon X.
Bullet Points (Earth-70105)
In the mini-series, Uncle Ben died in the assassination along with Abraham Erskine, the creator of the Super Soldier Formula. Without the father figure to guide him, Peter grew up to be rebellious teenager. When he sneak into a Gamma Bomb testing site in the desert, he was exposed to a high concentration of radiation and became the Hulk. Feeling guilty on what had happened to Peter, the creator of the gamma bomb, Bruce Banner tried to track down the Hulk but he was stopped by SHIELD because they don't want him to get killed. While collecting specimen from the test site, Bruce was bitten by a spider who was also exposed by the Gamma radiation, becoming a half-human, half-spider creature. He was captured by SHIELD and was thought to control his powers and becomes Spider-Man.
Earth-8545
In this reality where the earth has been plagued by a mutated Legacy Virus combined with Warlock's technorganic virus, Spider-Man is one of many heroes that has been infected by the virus. Together with the other infected heroes, they call themselves the Vi-Locks Prime.Marvel Fairy Tales
In an adaptation of the "Cinderella", where the role of Cinderella is given to Spider-Man, and Gwen Stacy is the "princess" in the ball looking for her one true love.
Earth-242101992
In this reality, Spider-Man wanted to get rid of his powers so he made a serum to eliminate his powers. Instead of ridding himself of his powers, he grew 6 additional arms. He wanted to get rid of his arms but the only one who holds the cure is in Morbius' blood, but he was killed. In an effort to search for an alternative cure, he consulted to the brightest minds of the marvel universe, but all of them cannot help him. When he fought and defeated Doctor Octopus, his arms made the difference in the fight and thought that this could be an advantage to his super-heroics. After that, he became a very influential and well-respected hero and an inspiration to the world.
Earth- 13270
Peter Parker is an extra-dimensional human mutant who had red skin and the ability t o generate webbing. This Earth's Spider-Man formerly had the superpowers o f Earth-616's Spider-Man, but lost these powers when his real mutant powers began to surface. This Peter would be born a mutant and would never gain his Spider abilities through a radioactive spider. Peter gained his powers when it is transferred i nto him by a spider which prevented his mutant powers from surfacing but when losing his spider powers, Peter couldn't p revent his mutation turning him in to a red- skinned, spider-like humanoid that could generate webbing.
Avataars
I this reality where is set in the medieval ages, Spider-Man is called the Webslinger and is the guardian of the forest. He was gifted by the Madame of the Web with powers but warned him to use his powers as a guardian of the forest. When he tried to save his uncle fro being robbed, the Madame of the Web took notice of this and punish Peter and turned him into a Man-Spider creature. He stopped the King and his knights (Captain America and his Avengers) from killing the Six Most Sinister and lead them safely out of the forest.
Spider-Man: Reign (Earth-70237)
In this alternate future, a very miserable Spider-Man is now retired, all of his loved ones are dead, and he is now waiting for his own death. But when the new mayor of New York and her "assistant" tries to take over the populace by getting them possessed by millions of symbiotes, and using supervillains as a police force. It is up to a very bitter Spider-Man to once again save New York and take his responsibility.
Earth-21993
In this reality, Spider-Man is killed by the Sentinels.
Spider-Man: Millennial
Spider-Man is a member of New Avengers team who opposes the Osborn Corporation.
Earth-1089
When Peter got impatient from waiting for Mister Fantastic to remove the symbiote from his body, it was already too late and the symbiote has permanently bonded to him. Within days, the symbiote sucked the life out of Spider-Man and he was already an old man. He died later on and was mourned by many of the superheroes. His death greatly impacted the superhero community that it even made Thor cry on his knees. All the superheroes exacted their revenge on the symbiote, who is currently possessing the Hulk. They even called the Inhuman king, Black Bolt for assistance. When the symbiote left Hulk and possessed Thor, the heroes tried to kill him but Black Cat killed the symbiote first with a sonic gun given to her by the Kingpin in return for her servitude.
Earth-6375
In this reality, Spider-Man is Miguel O'Hara, a genetic engineer in 2099 of an alternate reality of the Earth-928 working for the Alchemax Corporation where he would live in a place where big business had more power than the government. Quitting his job after a prisoner was killed due to the experimentation done by the company he worked for using the prisoner as a test subject, Miguel O'Hara was told by his father Tyler Stone also known as the Alchemax CEO that he was given addictive drugs. These drugs making Miguel to stay employed. Trying to get rid of this drug from system was sabotaged, and this ended up splicing Miguel genes with that of a spider. This would give Miguel abilities like that of a spider. Obtaining an costume from Day of the Dead festival and a glider from a Thorite (Thor worshiper), O'Hara battles the company he once worked for and other villains as all of the previous Spider-Man incarnations. Proteus reality warping traveled to Earth-928, arrived at a time before Doctor Doom had become the President of The United Sates and took control of the Hulk during that time. Miguel would become a member of the Exiles and help the Exiles defeat Proteus since during a battle on his Earth-6375 his identity was revealed and knowing that his life was ruined so he decided to join the Exiles to go against Proteus and remain in Earth-928. This caused the second version of Earth-928, creating a new reality Earth-6375.
Earth-1137
In this reality where everyone are intelligent insects, Spider-Man is one of the locals that tried to defend their planet from the invading Shi'Ar Empire
Spider-Man Noir
The story takes place in January 1933 during the great depression, opening with police officers surrounding the Daily Bugle after J.J.J. supposedly called them. Inside, we see Spider-Man standing over a beaten, bloody and bruised Mr. Jameson. Pete manages to escape the cops.(The next part is presumably a flashback)
The Daily Bugle sends Ben Urich to the streets to investigate the poverty and homelessness littering the city. Some thugs show up and start a fight with both Peter Parker and his Aunt May, luckily Ben Urich manages to get the thugs out of there way and takes Peter off to a strip club of sorts called "The Black Cat". They get thrown out after Peter throws a glass of whiskey on Norman Osbourne and they are told to never come back.
The next day, Urich gets Pete a job at the Daily Bugle and after a hard day of photographing all the filth and the poverty in the city, Peter opens to Urich. Explaining what "The Goblin" and his gang did to his Uncle Ben, Urich already knew but what he did'nt know was that Peter was the one to find the broken mutilated body of his uncle. The only thing about the death Pete had wrong was that they did'nt release "Wild Dogs" on Uncle Ben....they set lose a cannibal by the name of Adrian Tomes also known as the Vulture.
Spider-Man in Video Games
In 1982, Parker Brothers published the first Spider-Man game for the Atari 2600 titled Spider-Man. The game involves climbing a sky scraper, rescuing hostages and defusing bombs set by the Green Goblin. The 1990's saw a flood of Spider-Man Video Games. The first game of the decade released was The Amazing Spider-Man, a puzzle action game released Amiga, PC:DOS, Commodore 64, and Atari ST. Another game, also titled " The Amazing Spider-Man" was released in 1990 for the Game Boy. The Game Boy titles spawned two sequels: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and The Amazing Spider-Man 3: Invasion of the Spider-Slayers. In 1991 Sega released the first Spider-Man arcade game titled " Spider-Man: The Video Game". Sega also released The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin the same year. The Nintendo Home consoles were late to the Spider-Man party, but they saw many Spider-Man titles themselves. The first was Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six, released in 1992 and considered by some to be one of the worst Spider-Man games of all time.Not all Spider-Man titles followed original story lines. In 1994 Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage was released for the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. The game closely followed the Maximum Carnage Story Arch that was present in all of the Spider-Man titles. 1995 gave us Spider-Man and Venom: Separation Anxiety, which was released on the Sega Genesis, The Super Nintendo and the PC. That same year, Spider-Man: The Animated Series was released for The Genesis and the Super Nintendo; it followed the storyline of the series, with most of the characters being represented the way they were in the cartoon. The next Spider-Man game, Spider-Man: Web of Fire, was released for the Sega 32X. This game is one of the most rare and valuable Spider-Man games to date. For the next couple of years, no game completely dedicated to Spider-Man was released. He did however star in Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems and the Marvel vs Capcom series. Not until 2000 would Spider-Man return in his own game.
Spider-Man made his triumphant video game return in 2000, with not one, but two games, and a special guest appearance that year. Spider-Man for the Game Boy Color was published by Activision
and met with moderate success. Later that year "Spider-Man", developed by NeverSoft, for the PlayStation was released. The game was met with critical and commercial success. The game was ported over to the Nintendo 64 the following year, but lacked the full motion cut scenes due the systems hardware. In September of that year, Spider-Man made a special appearance in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 as a hidden character. In 2001 sequels to the successful Activision titles were released. "Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro" for the PlayStation and "Spider-Man 2: Sinister Six" for the Gameboy Color. Spider-Man made an early appearance on Nintendo's new handheld system, The Gameboy Advance with Spider-Man: Mysterio's Menace. With the release of the Spider-Man films, the Spider-Man video games followed suit. Spider-Man: The Game was released in unison with the film in 2002. It was released on the PlayStation 2, The Nintendo GameCube, The Gameboy Advance, The Xbox and the PC. The game broke many sales records at the time. When Spider-Man 2 was released in June 2004, Spider-Man 2: The Game was released the day before. The game saw release on the same consoles as Spider-Man: The Game did, in addition to the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. 2005 saw a comic related Spider-Man game hit the market; "Ultimate Spider-Man" followed many of the comic story arcs, and allowed the player to switch between Spider-Man and Venom. Spider-Man's latest film, Spider-Man 3 also saw the same video game treatment as it prior prequels. Spider-Man 3 was released on more consoles than any game before it. The game was available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and 3, Nintendo Wii, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS, the Sony PSP and PC. Spider-Man: Friend or Foe was in October 2007 for Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, PC, PSP and Nintendo DS. This Spider-Man game features the villains from the Spider-Man films, but with a humorous twist. As of April 14th,2007 this is the most current Spider-Man game. Activision has announced a Spider-Man game for 2008, which is slated to be an original story not associated with the films.Spider-Man in Television
Spider-Man (1967)
"Spider-Man. Spider-Man. Does whatever a spider can. Spins a web, any size. Catches thieves- just like flies. Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man! Is he strong? Listen, bud. He's got radioactive blood. Can he swing, from a thread? Take a look overhead. Hey, there! There goes the Spider-Man! In the chill of night, at the scene of a crime. Like a streak of light, he arrives just in time! Spider-Man. Spider-Man. Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Wealth and fame? He's ignored. Action is his reward. To him, life is a great big bang-up. Wherever there's a hang-up, you'll find the Spider-Man!"
Spider-Man (1981)
This Spider-Man series debuted September 12, 1981 and ended on September 11, 1982. This was the second animated production of Spider-Man after its original series that started in 1967. This series was produced by the newly formed Marvel Productions that risen from the ashes of DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. The company that made had produced the 1978 New Fantastic Four and 1979 Spider-Woman animated series. This version character design would be later used for the series Spider-Man And His Amazing Friend series and would have some of the same people play as the same characters. This character designs for the series were based on the classic style of Spider-Man artist John Romita and were very similar to the visual look of the comics from the mid 60s to the early 80s. This series tells the life of Peter Parker a college student who lives a life as Peter and Spider-Man. They also used the same characters as before such as: Peter's Aunt May, J. Jonah Jameson: Editor of the Daily Bugle, Betty Brant: Jameson's secretary and classic damsel in distress, and later on during the series, Robbie Robertson, Jameson's assistant. Spidey also faces against some of his usual foes such as: Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Mysterio and the Chameleon. This also included a six part story arc where Spidey goes up against Doctor Doom throughout the series.Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends (1981)
Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994)
Spider-Man Unlimited (1999)
the flight and then gets blamed for what happens to John during his mission. Another six months later they launch the Solaris II rescue mission to go to Counter Earth. The Webslinger then makes his appearance with his new suit featuring nano technology "borrowed" from the lab of Reed Richards with microscopic robots covering his entire body optional with anti-symbiote devices. He gets stopped by Nick Fury who gives Spidey a chance to redeem himself by taking the space shuttle to Counter Earth so he can go rescue John Jameson. When on Counter Earth after almost being burned up on entry, Peter was then under arrest and was sought out by Lord Tyger and the High Evolutionary. Spidey then meets the people who are chasing him who are known as the Knights of Wondergore. Lord Tyger introduces himself and the rest of the Knights of Wondergore Ursula, Lady Vermin, and Sir Ram and while being chased throughout the city realizes that there is a high tech society where humanoid animals have taken over and the normal people live in the overpopulated slums. He was captured and was told of what happened by the High Evolutionary who came from another planet to seek a place where petty humans squabbles, greed, selfishness, violence, hatred was no more. He built his one paradise having many experiments using animals that who he now calls his Beastials who are under the leadership of the High Evolutionary that are stronger, faster, and free of the primitive human mind. Spider-Man would then be rescued by the resistance who had been told that the war lasted for 50 years. Spidey finds John joined with the resistance and who decides to stay until the humans are free of the High Evolutionary's oppression. Peter blends in with the humans to see what the Counter Earth world was like and after saving Shane Yamada-Jones from the robots, Naoko, Shane's mother and also a doctor helps Peter and takes him into their home but only as long as Peter pays rent giving him 2 weeks rent free for saving Shane's life. This series doesn't last long only having 13 episodes and ending off on a cliffhanger. The series was canceled but 6 episodes were made for the second season but was never aired.
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008)
Spider-Man in Other Media
The Amazing Spider-Man (1977)
This series debuted on CBS on April 19, 1977 and lasted up until July 6, 1979 . This would be the live action drama about the life of Peter Parker, a free lance photographer working for the Daily Bugle. Peter is bitten by a radioactive spider while on a assignment which gives his super human abilities. he realizes that he has some sort of spider like abilities and is able to cling to walls have superhuman strength and agility, and can produce webbing. In this live-action tv drama Peter constructs web shooters which he puts over his costume but later on in the series would only have one which would enable to him to catch crooks and making giant webs. This version of Spider-Man was built on a low budget and episodes had long waiting periods between each episode. Still this series is the first live-action version of the webslinger and has become a favorite over the years.Spider-Man Trilogy
2002 marked
the for the very first time Spidey would be brought to the big screen. On May 1st the live-action film blockbuster film "Spider-Man" was a critical and financial success. Peter Parker/ Spider-Man is played by Tobie Macguire. Mary Jane is of course the main love interest for Peter. The film displays a tense father/son relationship between Harry and the films villian Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin.
Peter is on a school field trip to a science lab, and Peter observes the spiders, and is bullied at the same time by Flash Thompson, who also is Mary Jane's boyfriend. When taking a picture of M.J., he is bitten by a radioactive spider. Norman Osborn is at Oscorp lab conducting super soldier expierements. The goverment shuns at his progress which has been going not the way Norman hoped it would be. Later, Osborn tells Mendel Strom that he must take the expierement. After the expierement is done, Norman is temporarily dead, but he comes back with 3 negativities of the serum, anger, violence, and insanity. He kills Mendel Strom, and thus becomes the Green Goblin. Later Peter is eating lunch at school when he notices wen sticking from his wrist to his lunch tray. When he tries to let go, his food hits Flash in the back of the head, which upsets him alot. Peter runs to his locker, and then senses some sort of danger behind he is able to dodge Flash's fist, and when Flash's friend go's from benhind at Peter, he makes an amazing jump, then punch's Flash out. He runs from school, and notices small hairs protruding from his hands. He than begins to climb runs, then jump buildings, and finally he remembers the web from the wrist. He tries several takes on this, but when he presses down, the web finally protrudes from his hand. He swings from a building, but splats into a billboard. He discusses with Mary Jane who lives next door to him, the incident at school and why she chosed Flash as a boyfriend. She really has no awnser for him. The next evening Peter is at a wrestling competition for some extra money. He goes under the alias "Spider-Man". He is put in a caged match and his opponent clearly has the muscular advantage over him. Peter amazingly defeats him, with his spiderpowers. After the match, a burglur runs right by him, and he does nothing to stop him. Outside he notices a group of civilians and police standing in a circle. He runs right in to the middle, and sees his beloved Uncle Ben dying from a gunshot the burglur. Peter than hunts down the man who killed his Uncle all the way to an abanded building. Peter is thinking of killing him, but realizes that would make him just as a big a scumbag as he was. The burglur than tries to shoot him, but Peter breaks his wrist, and the burglur falls out a window to his death. At his graduation, Peter is grieved with the loss of his Uncle, but recieves some kind words from Norman Osborn, whos son Harry that Flash and Mary Jane have broken up. Peter remembers his Uncle's words that:"With great power comes great responsiblilty". He is drawing out on a notepad what kind of costume would he want to wear. Then comes up with the one he likes the most. Peter Parker now swings thru the rooftops of the big apple as Spider-Man. He is recognized as ahero for stopping robberers, murders, rapers and so forth. J.Jonah Jameson, editor-in-cheif of the Daily Bugle believes he is not ahero, but a menace. He puts out a reward for anyone how can get a decent picture of Spider-Man. Peter is the one who gets that pic, and a job as a freelance photographer at the Daily Bugle. He knows however that Jameson is going to slander his good work as Spider-Man, and just learns that Harry and Mary Jane are dating. At an Oscorp board meeting, the board tells an enraged Norman Osborn, that he is fired. At the Oscorp parade, he makes his public debut as the Green Goblin. He destroys padios, decintergrates the Oscorp board to ash with a pumpkin bomb. He notices Mary Jane falling from a ledge and glides over there. That just happens to be when Spider-Man attacks the goblin. They battle in the chaos, then the Goblin deserts saying they will meet again. Mary Jane falls from the ledge but Spider-Man saves her just in time. The next time the goblin and Spidey met was at the Daily Bugle where the Goblin is demanding the name of the man who takes Spider-Man's pictures. Spidey interrupted the conversation, but the goblin gases him to sleep, temporarily paralyzing him. He gives Spider-Man an ultimatum, join him, or everyone he loves will die. He gives some amount of time to think about it. When Spidey tries to save as many he can from a burning apartment building, the Goblin attacks him. He says he will never join him, and is forced to dodge the goblins batarangs. He suffers a minor laceration. He is able to make it out. Once out, he swings home to attend hs thanksgiving supper at Aunt May's with Mary Jane and the Osborns as their guests. Norman notices a dop of blood on Peter's floor. He then notices a cut on his arm, which is the exact same cut he recieved in the battle with the goblin. Norman realizes that Peter and Spider-Man are one, and leaves immediatley. His goblin side drives him to the point of wanting to kill Peter with no mercy. He aattacks Aunt May for his first move, his last move is kidnapping Mary Jane. Mirroring the death of Gwen Stacy story line, he holds her captive at the Queensboro bridge instead of the George Washington bridge. He also has a cargo of children. He throws Mary jane off the bridge the same time he throws off the cargo, Spidey saves both M.J. and the kids. The goblin then violently and brutally beats Spider-Man to a bloody pulp. When he mentions killing Mary Jane, he regains his strength to fight back, and thus begains beating down on his green enemy. When he unmasks himself to reveal he is Norman Osborn, he makes yet another offer. To have him as a son he never had. He of course says no, which he has his glider in the back ready to strike Parker from behind. Just like in the death of Gwen Stacy, Peter's spidersense kicked in, he dodges the glider, and impales Osborn, and kills him. Now he now he must be Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
New York City now loves their new hero, Spider-Man, but at the same time,
hate him more than ever. J.Jonah Jameson's persistant media onslaught of preceieving him as a menace than the hero he really is has given people the thought he wants them have. Peter's relationship with his best friend Harry Osborn has never been as bad as it is now. Harry holds a grudge for continuing to take pictures of the man he believed murdered his father instead of reporting him to the police. Mary Jane has moved on herself. Harry and her are no longer dating. She is now dating Jameson's son, John Jameson. However, she those believe a little bit that Peter could be Spider-Man. Peter now attends university. His grades are sinking, his attendance is at a low, his instructor, Curt Connors, tells him, that he needs to put behind whatever it is that is getting in front of his education. He also gets to meet a respected collegue of Connors, Dr.Otto Octavius. He shows Peter his big project. 4 Mechancial arms to help him harness fusion. In an expierement Peter attends, the power overloads, an explosion occurs Spider-Man is able to save Harry, but not Otto, or his wife who dies. Octavius, gased out in a surgery room is completley unaware that his arms have killed the surgeons and doctors. He heads back to his old home, with no moey, and no prospects. His arms begin taking to him, clearly driving him into a madman. He know is Dock Ock. His first criminal move is robbing a bank vault. Spider-Man arrives to stop him, but his powers go on and off on him. He is able to save Aunt May. His problem with his powers are related to his emotions. One night that he is webslinging thru New York, he is depressed with the thought of Mary Jane having a boyfriend, and its not him. He runs out of web fluid, and cannot seem to stick to walls. In a scene depicting John Romita's artwork, Peter throws his costume in the garbage saying:"I am Spider-Man, no more". He seems to now have a normal life. He attends school on time, his grades are improving, he is happy. Harry, on the other hand, is obsessed with Spider-Man, his butler tells him to stop obsessing, but ignores him. Dock Ock arrives demanding the tritium stored in a secret vault. Harry mentions if he wants it he has to capture Spider-Man alive, and return him to the mansion. When Ock asks how to get to him, Harry says to politley ask Peter Parker, which he does not treat too kindly. He throes him against a wall, and takes Mary Jane hostage. Peter's powers come back, and goes looking for his costume which Jameson has put on his wall as a trophy. He thinks to himself that since Doc Ock is running thru New York with no one to stop him, he says that prehaps Spider-Man was a true hero after all. Just after that Peter takes his costume back, and Jameson takes back what he said about Spider-Man. Ock and Spider-Man battle on a moving train, where Spidey is forced to use lot of webbing to stop the out of control train from running off its tracks. He loses his mask, but proceeds to be a hero. He almost falls into the ocean in a exhausted man, if it wasn't for all the passangers catching him, and moving him, over thier heads, placig him down, and return him his mask. Ock returns and easily knocks him out. he returns Spidey bound in barb wire to Harry, and recieves the tritium. Harry unmasks him before stabbing him with a knife, and cannot believe that Peter was responsible. Peter finally takes sense into Harry, that Ock has Mary Jane, and he needs save her before he destroys half of New York. Spider-Man arrives defeats Ock. Doc does not give up and chokes him with one of his arms. Spider-Man, who has unmasked to reveal to Doc Ock that he is Parker, pleads with him to etroy the machine. Ock sacrifices himself to do it. This allows Spider-Man to save Mary Jane, who now knows her thoughts were true, on Spidey being Pete. Back at the Osborn mansion, Harry is a broken man now with the knowledge that the man he hates the most is also the only man he sees as his brother. In an vision he sees his dad taking to him thru the mirror telling him to exact revenge for him for his death. He declines, but his father keeps insinuating that he do so. Harry ends it by throwing a blade at the mirror. Then sees a part of the mansion he never saw before. A dark cobwebed area, that seems to have green lightening, he turns around, and there is the Green Goblin mask along with bombs, glider and the formula. Harry now knows his dad was the Green Goblin. The next day Mary Jane is supposed to marry John Jameson, but ditches instead. She goes to Peter and announces that she loves him. They kiss, and she sees him jump out of his apartment as Spider-Man.
Spider-Man 3
With Spider-Man's popularity at all time high, along with the fact that New York loves him more than ever, his grades at school are up, and he finally has the women of his dreams, absolutley everything seems to be going right in the life of Peter Parker. He is happy, he still has a job at the Daily Bugle, who just hired a new photographer, Eddie Brock, who the two are immediatly set in to a buisness rivalry by Jameson, for a Spider-Man picture. Later at one of Mary Jane's plays Harry is attending who still holds a grudge against Peter. After the play, Mary Jane asks what the problem is between the two, but he refuses to tell the right anwser. As they are about to leave, a small rock falls from space containing a living alien goo inside of it. It is immediatley attracted to Peter. It stick to the license plate of his bike, as he takes Mary Jane home. he drops by his Aunt May' to tell him he is thinking of asking Mary Jane to marry him, and she relates a story of when Uncle Ben asked her to marry him. After that Peter is driving home, when he is attacked by someone flying on snowboard type glider. Than man cearly knows that he is Spider-Man, and the two engage in a physical confrontation. It is not long before his mysterious foe slams him into a brick wall. He unmasks himself revealing to be Harry Osborn. He is doing this for his father. The two keep fighting thru the city's rooftops. It is ended when Peter attaches a web line to a wall, where Harry glides into, falls over, hits his head, and goes into a concussion. Peter takes him to the hospital, where he will have no memory of what happened between them for a while. Later a small time crook escapes his prison, and is running from the police where he climbs a fence and falls into a sand testing area, where he is in the middle of, and the testing procedure occurs, sand shortly mixes with his DNA due to all the sand around him and screams as he decintergrates into sand. The next morning he wakes up in a sand/human form with a memory of his daughter that he cares for. In New York there is a parade for Spider-Man who saved Gwen Stacy, daughter of the police chief, and classmate of Peter Parker. There she introduces him, and they kiss publically the same way Spider-Man and Mary Jane had thier first kiss. The parade is interrupted by the Sandman who shapeshifted into a larger sand/human form to escape police. Spider-Man chases him right into a bank armor protected veichle. Spidey puches his fist right thru him, and Sandman makes larger fst out of hardened rock hard sand and punches Spider-Man thru the door, on to the streets, and escapes again. Later Peter and Aunt May are at the police station cause it has been revealed that Flint Marko has killed hiis Uncle Ben. Peter is angered by this and leaves in a rage. Flint Marko also happpens to be the Sandman.Later Peter is having nightmares on his bed how his Uncle was killed by Marko. He is in his costume when the alien goo crawls up on him and bonds all over on his costume. He wakes up hanging from a skyscraper wondering what
happened with his costume he finds out his powers are stronger than before and lings the city. He heads down into the sewer to chase Sandman so he can killl him. When he finds him, he is able to get the gain over him, with new suit, and releases a large water valve and hopes he drained the Sandman to rot. The new suit has made Peter act unlike himself. He has been wearing dark clothing dancing on the street, flirting with Betty Brant. Mary Jane and Peter have broken up, but when he finds out that she is with Harry, he goes over immediatley to Harry's. They get into another confrontation, but with Peter in his black suit (underneath his clothing) he easily defeats Osborn, and he even tosses back a pumpkin bomb at his face. Eddie Brock who photoshoped a picture of Spider-Man comitting a criminal deed, Peter demands to know why, and starts a small fued right in Brock's party. He gives the evidence to Robbie, and it is given to Jameson, who fires Brock on the spot. Later Peter goes out on a date with Gwen Stacy, Brock's former girlfriend, they go to the bar where, Mary Jane has a waitress job at, completley humiliating her, when he tries to show off, again, it ends up with him trying to punch a security guard, he misses and gets Mary Jane instead. This causes Peter to think seriously about his suit, he needs to abandom it immediatly, he goes to a church to use the belll's sonic noise to weaken the symbiote. It works. However Brock who is religous, goes to where he hers the bell, and can tell it is Peter Parker who is Spider-Man. Before he can do anything the symbiote falls on him, as it is attracted to his anger, and taste for revenge. They bond together, and as one they promise to eliminate the source of their pain, together they will kill Spider-Man, together they are Venom. Who immediatly goes to Sandman to make a partnership, promising good things will come if he helps him on his mission which he agrees to do. They hold Mary Jane hostag at unfinshied skyscraper. When Peter realizes this he gets back in the good old red and blue Spidey costume, and heads to Harry's to ask for help, since he knows he does have feelings for Mary Jane. He declines, but his butler tells him that he is afraid he will become his father, and to not let that happen. Spider-Man arrives to save Mary Jane, but Venom can't show up on Spider-man's spidersense and easily gets an attack on him from behind, and Sandman is revealed to be a gigantic sand sized monster. He and Venom begin to assault on Spider-Man. Harry shows up and throws a pumpkin bomb at Sandman which stuns him and helps Spider-Man get up and together they fight Venom and Sandman. Harry doesn't havve a problem defeating Marko, but Peter can't get a hold on Venom. He once agian begins pounding on him when Harry provides a distraction, but is knocked off his glider with blades protruding at both ends. Venom takes at leaps at Spider-Man when Harry sacfrices himself. Spider-Man gets up and uses the bars sonic noise to break the symbiote from Brock. Peter has had enough. He throws a pumpkin bomb at the symbiote, but Eddie tries to save and both die together. Sandman explains why he teamed up with Venom, and what happened the night of Uncle Ben's death. Peter forgives him. He and Mary Jane than try to work on their relationship.
| Super Name: | Spider-Man |
| Real Name: | Peter Benjamin Parker |
| Aliases: |
Spiderman Spidey Pete Parker Pavitr Prabhakar Peter Parquagh Peter Palmer Peter Morgan Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Tiger Captain Universe Ben Reilly Yu Komori Man-Spider Iron Spider Bombastic Bag-Man Masked Menace Green Hood Mad Dog 336 Bug-Eyed Freak Dusk Prodigy Hornet Ricochet Paper Bag-Man Challenger The Spider Masked Marvel Man-Spider The Spectacular Spider-Man The Sensational Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man Arachnid L'Uomo Ragno Uomo Ragno El Hombre Araña The Human Spider |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Radiation |
| 1st Appearance: | Amazing Fantasy #15 |
| Appears in: | 4520 issues |
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