Hollywood - Spider-Man is the quintessential Marvel character. Although a super hero Spider-Man is spared none of the slings and arrows of ordinary life. Spider-Man even started fighting crime for a common theme in motion pictures, he was motivated by the murder of a father figure, his Uncle Ben. Spidey's driving force is guilt, not revenge; he must live forever with the knowledge that he could have prevented the killing of his uncle if he had not been so self-absorbed.
Creator of Spider-Man Stan Lee used Spider-Man to challenge some concepts of the super hero theme. Spider-Man was neurotic, compulsive, and profoundly skeptical about the whole idea of becoming a costumed savior. The first Spider-Man story was intended as no more than a one-shot experiment, and almost didn't get into print at all. Publisher, "Martin Goodman didn't want to publish it", recalls Stan Lee. Goodman was convinced that readers would find the subject of spiders distasteful. Fortunately, a comic book called "Amazing Fantasy" was about to be cancelled, due to low subscriptions. "Nobody cares what you put into a book that's going to die", Stan Lee says. "So I threw in Spider-Man." "I featured him on the cover and then forgot about him." Lee didn't know that Spiderman as about to become the most important adolescent super hero in comics. Spider-Man was the hero and teenage helper rolled into one; he was his own sidekick. In the first publication Spider-Man thought to himself out loud, but subsequently, Stan Lee adopted the device of the thought balloon, with it's characteristic bubbles.
Peter Benjamin Parker is the son of Richard and Mary Parker who worked as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and were killed on a mission involving an impersonator of the Red Skull. Peter Parker attends a science exhibition where he is bitten by a radioactive spider. Peter later discovers the spider gave him a number of spider-like powers, including wall-crawling, superhuman strength, speed and agility, and an extraordinary "spider-sense." Peter Parker initially sets out to find fame and fortune by using his powers to win wrestling matches. Wearing a makeshift disguise he wrestles professional wrestler Crusher Hogan, and wins. After quickly becoming a minor celebrity Peter appears on a television special, but during the show Peter allows a thief to escape the TV station, "saying it isn't his problem." Peter begins to regret his action when he finds out the same burglar from the television station, subsequently kills his uncle Ben. Realizing that he could have prevented his uncle's murder, the remorse-ridden Peter Parker commits to a life of crime fighting and lifesaving. See also, www.universalstudios.com.
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