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    Initially, Peter was depicted as a teenage high-school student and an orphan raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City after his parents Richard and Mary Parker died in a plane crash.
    Alter ego: Peter Benjamin Parker
    First appearance: Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962)
    Publisher: Marvel Comics
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    Alan Kistler looks at the many origin stories of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, from "Amazing Fantasy" to Japan to Broadway across the various medium's the webslinger has graced. 50 years ago, Peter Parker AKA Spider-Man was introduced in an 11-page story by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
    Spider-Man, comic-book character who was the original everyman superhero. In Spider-Man’s first story, in Marvel Comics ’ Amazing Fantasy, no. 15 (1962), American teenager Peter Parker, a poor sickly orphan, is bitten by a radioactive spider.
    George Marston of Newsarama called Spider-Man's origin the greatest origin story of all time, opining that "Spider-Man's origin combines all of the most classic aspects of pathos, tragedy and scientific wonder into the perfect blend for a superhero origin."
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    The opening story was a retelling of Spider-Man's origin by Peter David and Stan Lee. Most of the elements were familiar, but this story shows that the spider which bit Peter becomes radioactive thanks to the experiments of Dr. Otto Octavius, the very same experiment that turns him into Doctor Octopus.
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    George Marston of Newsarama called Spider-Man's origin the greatest origin story of all time, opining that "Spider-Man's origin combines all of the most classic aspects of pathos, tragedy and scientific wonder into the perfect blend for a superhero origin." Real-life comparisons See more

    Spider-Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in … See more

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    In Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, Midtown High School student Peter Benjamin Parker is … See more

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    In 1962, with the success of the Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee was casting for a new superhero idea. He … See more

    Sally Kempton for the Village Voice opined in 1965 that "Spider-Man has a terrible identity problem, a marked inferiority complex, … See more

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