Spider-Man is tremendously popular and is perhaps the
most recognizable superhero besides Spiderman and Batman.
Through the years, he has appeared in a handful of animated
series, a weekly comic strip and, recently, two very successful
films. Meanwhile, Marvel has published several comic book
series featuring the character (most notably Amazing Spider-Man).
The character has grown from shy high school kid to troubled
college student to married man, but the core of the character
remains the same. In the 1980s, Stan Lee said that the
idea for the series sprang out of the apparent increased
teenage interest in the new Marvel comics characters,
so he decided to create a character that could cater to
them specifically. One of the influences for the character
came from the pulp magazine, The Spider, and perhaps from
an earlier minor spider-themed character, the Tarantula
from DC Comics.
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