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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