" SOMETIMES THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY THINGS HAVE THE MOST ORDINARY BEGINNINGS "

The primary signature character for Marvel Comics, SPIDERMAN, or Spidey for short, is the alter-ego of Peter Parker, science student at a New-York University. While witnessing a radiology experiment one fateful day, Peter is bitten by a spider expossed to the radioctive field generated by the experiment . . .

and later finds that he has adquired the spider's wall scaling, leaping, and extra-sensory abilities, in addition to increased endurance and strength.

Peter knits for himself a red-and-blue costume and mask and produces a web-spinning fluid enablig him to swing from building to building above the streets of Manhattan.

Peter's Uncle Ben is murdered by a burglar, a criminal who earlier ran past Peter at a television studio to which Peter had come to exhibit his spider-abilities. Peter selfishly declined to help the police to stop the fleeing crook and is to a significant extent for the death of his uncle. Peter, in his SPIDERMAN guise,finds,punches, and webs the murderer . . .

Realizing that he has received his powers for a higher purpose than exhibition for monetary gain, Peter accepts his duty as a costumed fighter of crime, a responsibility that he vows never again to fail.

To support his Aunt May, Ben's widow, Peter becomes a freelance photographer for The Daily Bugle newspaper as an aside to his continued studies and his responsibility as Spiderman to the good people of New York. Peter does not allow anyone, not even his aunt, to know that he is Spiderman.

The Daily Bugle publisher a cigar-smoking, self-righteous , blustery chauvinist named J. Jonah Jameson, has a jaundiced view of Spiderman's heroism and wields considerable influence with the city government and police force. So, Spidey must constantly be wary of the police he is helping, usually leaving, the villains he catches in a web for police to apprehend after he has left the capture scene, and attaching a note with an appropriate pun in regard to the crook and which says that the capture was courtesy of " Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman ".

Peter often uses his intimate involvement with his alter-ego's pursuit of villains to obtain exclusive photographs of the criminals, their evil reeds, and their capture, and provides the photos to an incredulous Jameson, who, though he prints the pictures, ususally manages to negatively spin-doctor Spiderman's involvement and magnify his own importance, much to Spidey's good-naturated annoyance and the objection of Spidey's admires Peter's friend, Betty Brant, Jameson's feisty secretary.

Meanwhile, in Peter's continued University life, he encounters eccentric professors whose unauthorized, dangerous experiments result in calamity that only Spiderman can remedy, and he experiences frustration with girl-friends who accuse him of cowardice every time that he must leave them in a dire situation to change into Spiderman.

LOOK OUT !! HERE COMES THE SPIDER-MAN !!