
"
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 !!
