“Peter was made fun of and marginalized because of who he was. Robin Rosenberg, the author and editor of numerous books on superheroes and psychology, including Superhero Origins: What Makes Superheroes Tick and Why We Care. “The Spider-Man character speaks to the fact that we often don’t think people see our true best selves,” says Dr. Perhaps even more importantly, Spider-Man wrestled with this identity crisis: Peter wasn’t just a front, it was his very real self.
“The alter egos of Batman and Superman were largely superfluous, focusing mostly on, ‘Will someone discover them some day?’ But with Peter Parker, fans could really imagine that they were that character.” “Nowhere else in history had you seen the alter ego get that kind of face time,” says Blake Bell, author of Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko. Peter Parker was an incredibly relatable character, and readers were as interested in his life as they were in Spider-Man’s crime-fighting antics. Almost immediately, Spider-Man became a phenomenon. I also thought it would be interesting if he wasn’t popular in school.”Īfter that inaugural appearance, however, the character would be given his own title – The Amazing Spider-Man – in March 1963. I liked the idea of him having a sick aunt. “I wanted to write about a character that worried about money – just like I did.
“I just wanted to do what I thought would be the first realistic superhero,” Lee once told author Tom DeFalco. The webslinging hero – or, more accurately, his alter ego, Peter Parker – was everything other superheroes were not: Nerdy, neurotic, picked on, and burdened with a whole host of real life problems. You could already tell this do-gooder was different. That was the response that writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko got when they first introduced Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy #15, in August,1962. Marc Webb on ‘Spider-Man 2’: ‘I Want the Audience to be Thrilled’ So, a kid gets bit by a radioactive spider - and it gives him superpowers? He swings around New York City on webs and fights crime? Superhero titles were starting to come back into fashion, but Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman didn’t believe a superhero title with a high-schooler hero would sell teenagers were generally relegated to humor comics, like Archie, or to sidekick roles, like Batman‘s Robin.
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