Spider-Man (Peter Benjamin Parker) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962), and has since gone on to become one of the most popular, enduring and commercially successful superheroes worldwide, and is arguably Marvel's most famous character.
When Spider-Man first saw print in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually sidekicks. The Spider-Man series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, a hero who himself was an adolescent, to whose "self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness" young readers could relate.[1] Spider-Man has since appeared in various media, including several animated and live-action television series, syndicated newspaper comic strips and a successful series of films.
Marvel has published several Spider-Man comic book series, the first being The Amazing Spider-Man. Over the years, the Peter Parker character has developed from shy high school student to troubled college student to a married teacher and a member of the superhero team the New Avengers. A BusinessWeek article listed Spider-Man as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics.[2] In the Spider-Man film series, the character is portrayed by actor Tobey Maguire.
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