I personally believe him to just as smart as Tony Stark Bruce Banner and the other smart people of marvel. I also believe it was a huge slap in the face when marvel left him of the eight smartest people in world war hulk. What do you all think?

he is supposed to be as smart as Stark, just doesnt use his brain in the same way (that is what i have heard)

@mewmdude77 said:

I'd say if he focused his mind more, and worked on getting smarter, he could be equal to Tony in no time, Peter is just too poor, and too busy to do that right now.

I agree. Reed, Tony, Hank, and all had longer to study as children, Peter just jumped into the super-hero game. Any time it's time to work with the big brains Peter has no problem catching up to them. I think with just more quiet time to study Peter could be just as smart as Reed. I'd say his IQ could be up to the mid-160's.

I don't think he's on that level, no.

I think that Marvel prefers to keep Peter Parker at the level of ordinary men whose stuck doing odd jobs!!!

In honesty I don't believe he's smarter than Reed, I always thought of him on the level of someone like Beast or Stark or Doc Oc though.

I think of him as a normal genius but not a super genius like Reed, Stark, or Pym.

He's very intelligent, but he's also a slacker.

@ArturoCalaKayVee said:

Let's just say he would get accepted to MIT and leave it at that.

No way, He works with the TOP...he is much smarter than that

@Dernman said:

I think of him as a normal genius but not a super genius like Reed, Stark, or Pym.

I agree, he is normal genius, nothing to fancy...

@mewmdude77 said:

I'd say if he focused his mind more, and worked on getting smarter, he could be equal to Tony in no time, Peter is just too poor, and too busy to do that right now.

Also agree, he can be much more, but he would have to be a lot less ocupied...

@TheGoldenOne said:

He's gifted but he's not on Reed, Stark, Pym, or Banner's level

QFT

@Dernman said:

I think of him as a normal genius but not a super genius like Reed, Stark, or Pym.

High-End.

@ComicMan24 said:

@darthfury78 said:

I think that Marvel prefers to keep Peter Parker at the level of ordinary men whose stuck doing odd jobs!!!

Odd job? I don't see what is so odd about him working at the Horizon Labs. Peter loves his job, he is very good at it and plus with this job he can create new equipment for when he is out patrolling as Spider-Man.

I was referring to Peter's life before Dan Slott took over with "Big Time". Past writers before JMS had him stuck as a newspaper camera man who struggles to make a living, which shouldn't be the case for him. They tried to keep him as he was in high school/college years. That was not progress at all. I am glad that he has the job that is suited to his talents. The TV/Movie Media still portrays Peter Parker as a high school college kid who works as a camera man at the Bugle. Thus, Peter as a camera man was an odd job because it was not a stable position. I am hoping that Peter is working on his Ph.d thesis because it would certainly showcase that his is working at Horizon Labs to conduct his Doctoral Thesis disertation and has Reed Richards as his Science Adviser. This would show progress towards Peter Parker becoming a scientist in his own right. I would hate to see some other writer after Dan Slott take that away from his as Peter David had done to his work on Jennifer Walter's legal career when he undid that to make her an adventurer once again.

IMO he's as smart as tony at least

@sesquipedalophobe said:

He's very intelligent, but he's also a slacker.

LOOKS LIKE A SLACKER!

He'd be a super genius in the real world, but in comics he is more or less a poor man's version of Tony Stark. That's not to say it's a bad thing, considering how mind boggling smart Stark is.

Had he never received Spider-Powers he could very well have reached the Super-genius level of Richards and Pym. Fate had different plans for our boy though. As it is, Reed Richards has complemented Spider-Man's scientific prowess multiple times. 

As stated, Pym stated Parker was smarter than he, and Reed said they were on a similar level at Peter's age. He's outsmarted Tony, he's definitively smarter than Octavius and his Horizons Labs work has been very impressive and at times revolutionary. He once stated on panel that his IQ was over 270, although it could have been in jest.

It's hard to quantify intelligence, but I'd say he's more clever than Tony or Reed are, but they all naturally have their strengths and weaknesses. I'd say he's on a similar level.

@Dernman:

it's already noted that a 15 year old peter parker is smarter than pym.

spiderman is smart, but i wouldnt say hes as smart as batman.

@Dernman: i don't know about stark and reed but hank pym admitted that peter parker IS smarter than him.

@Dernman: as i said before i don't know if he's as smart as stark or reed. but at age 15 he was able to build a tracker device that reacts to his spider sense which hank pym said that to build a device like that it took him many years to build it.

@Dernman: i know that reeds is the smartest in marvel universe and both stark and pym are on the same list. but reed also said that his iq is equal to parker's at the same age. parker just never had a chance to develop it due to fighting criminals in a young age.

@Dernman: i know that reeds is the smartest in marvel universe and both stark and pym are on the same list. but reed also said that his iq is equal to parker's at the same age. parker just never had a chance to develop it due to fighting criminals in a young age.

@Dernman: @Dernman said:

@Personification said:

@Dernman: i know that reeds is the smartest in marvel universe and both stark and pym are on the same list. but reed also said that his iq is equal to parker's at the same age. parker just never had a chance to develop it due to fighting criminals in a young age.

I argue that it's his fighting criminals that has exposed him to levels of super technology that he wouldn't have come across otherwise. You are still using a few instances of bad writing to spotlight that Peter is also intelligent and putting them up against years of actual character development. It doesn't hold up and it doesn't matter how many times you say it it's simply not true. You should go back and actually learn more about these characters before you make claims instead of relying on a very limited source of knowledge.

you said that he was exposed to super technology through crime fighting, but he built he's spider tracker when he was just 15 and just started as spiderman

@Death_From_Below said:

spiderman is smart, but i wouldnt say hes as smart as batman.

Actually, I'd say he is. Given the opportunity and vast resources that comes with the Wayne, I think Peter could potentially be Bruce's equal.

@Dernman: @Dernman said:

@Personification said:

@Dernman: i know that reeds is the smartest in marvel universe and both stark and pym are on the same list. but reed also said that his iq is equal to parker's at the same age. parker just never had a chance to develop it due to fighting criminals in a young age.

I argue that it's his fighting criminals that has exposed him to levels of super technology that he wouldn't have come across otherwise. You are still using a few instances of bad writing to spotlight that Peter is also intelligent and putting them up against years of actual character development. It doesn't hold up and it doesn't matter how many times you say it it's simply not true. You should go back and actually learn more about these characters before you make claims instead of relying on a very limited source of knowledge.

you said that he was exposed to super technology through crime fighting, but he built he's spider tracker when he was just 15 and just started as spiderman

@royale_with_cheese said:

@Death_From_Below said:

spiderman is smart, but i wouldnt say hes as smart as batman.

Actually, I'd say he is. Given the opportunity and vast resources that comes with the Wayne, I think Peter could potentially be Bruce's equal.

good point.