Spider-Man I
Black Marvel I
Dusk I
Hornet I
Prodigy I
Ricochet I
Spider-Hulk
Spider-Lizard
Spider-Morphosis
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Spidey
Web-Head
Web-Slinger
Web-Spinner
Peter Benjamin Parker
Adventurer
Crime Fighter
Freelance Photographer
High School Science Teacher
Part-time College Student
Scientist
Stand-up Comedian
Citizen of the United States with no criminal record.
Queens, New York, New York
Wild Pack I
New York, New York
5' 10"
170 lbs.
Brown
Brown
Caucasian
Radioactive spider bite resulting in a mutation enabling the proportional strength, speed, agility and stamina of a spider including the ability to stick to most surfaces and a precognitive sixth-sense "spider-sense" warning of danger.
Additional genetic alterations resulting in organic web spinners located in the wrists and an expanded "spider-sense" creating a more sympathetic relationship with insects and arachnids.
Excellent hand-to-hand combatant with a fighting style possibly derived from spider-like attributes.
Above average intelligence with skills as a scientist and photojournalist.
Motion Activated Camera: Specially designed 35mm camera activated to take photographs when motion is detected in the direction of the lens.
Note: Peter Parker uses his motion activated camera as a means to photograph himself as Spider-Man when he battles costumed criminals as a sources of income as a free-lance photojournalist of the Daily Bugle.
Spider-Mobile: Short-lived fiasco used as urban transportation.
Spider-Tracers: Small homing devices launched from the web-shooters that emit a frequency activating Spider-Man's sixth sense.
Spidey-Armor: Pseudo-steel plated uniform used to increase durability for battles against overwhelming odds.
Utility Belt and Flashlight: Belt used for carrying spare web-cartridges used by web-shooter and equipped with a flat low intensity flashlight projecting a web shaped halo.
Web-Shooters: Wrist-mounted projectile device that fires a viscous high-tensile strength "web" fluid, stored in high-pressure cartridges mounted on the wrist housing, activated via triggers placed against the palm and activated by pressure from the middle fingers.
Alistaire Smythe
Black Tarantula
Calypso
Cardiac
Chameleon
Cyclone
Delilah
Dr. Spencer Smythe
Grizzly
Hammerhead
Kangaroo I
Kangaroo II
Kingpin II
Lightmaster
(The) Lobo Brothers
Persuader
(The) Queen
Robot Master
(The) Rose I
(The) Rose II
(The) Rose III
Shathra
Silvermane
Stunner
Tarantula I
Tarantula II
Vulture III
Vulture IV
(The) Vulturians
Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 & 2
Avengers Vol. 4
Marvel Tales
Marvel Team-Up Vol. 1, 2 & 3
Peter Parker Spider-Man Vol. 1 & 2
Sensational Spider-Man
Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 1 & 2
Spider-Man Vol. 1 & 2
Spider-Man Unlimited Vol. 1 & 2
Tangled Web
Untold Tales of Spider-Man
Web of Spider-Man
Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man
Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962)
Note: "Amazing Fantasy" was formerly called "Amazing Adult Fantasy." Issue #15 was the first and last issue of Amazing Fantasy, until Amazing Fantasy #16 was published in 1995.
When Stan Lee presented the idea of Spider-Man to his publisher the character was considered too creepy. Knowing he had an idea that should not be wasted, Stan introduced the character in the final issue of a book slated for cancellation. The character would resurface roughly one year later in Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March, 1963).
Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
While attending a public exhibition on safe nuclear power; high school student Peter Parker was bitten by a spider that had been exposed to a deadly dose of radiation. Instead of dying from the bite Parker gained the proportionate strength and agility of a spider.
Capitalizing on his new found abilities Parker became a masked professional wrestler - a performance which attracted the attention of an entertainment agent. After completing a television performance in his masked identity Parker failed to stop a fleeing thief; a decision which would in the future haunt him.
A few days later, Parker arrived at his Queens, New York home to discover that his uncle Ben had been killed by a burglar. Distraught by the death of his beloved guardian he vowed to capture the criminal. Easily apprehended the killer, Parker recognized the criminal as the thief he allowed to escape at the television studio.
Realizing that his inaction inadvertently doomed his uncle, Parker took to heart the advice that with great power comes great responsibility. Vowing to honor Uncle Ben's memory Parker pledged his life to fighting crime and injustice. Armed with his superhuman abilities and scientific genius the reluctant superhero struggles with sinister villains, making financial ends meet, and maintaining some semblance of a normal life while fulfilling his destiny as the Amazing Spider-Man.
