Friday, July 20, 2012

SPIDER MAN





Spider-Man
Spider-Man.jpg
From The Amazing Spider-Man #547 (March 2008)
Art by Steve McNiven and Dexter Vines
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceAmazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962)
Created byStan Lee
Steve Ditko
In-story information
Alter egoPeter Benjamin Parker
SpeciesHuman Mutate
Team affiliationsDaily Bugle
Front Line
New Fantastic Four
Avengers
New Avengers
Future Foundation
Heroes for Hire
PartnershipsVenom
Scarlet Spider
Wolverine
Human Torch
Daredevil
Black Cat
Punisher
Toxin
Iron Man
Ms. Marvel
Notable aliasesRicochet, Dusk, Prodigy, Hornet,Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider
Abilities

Awards and honors

From the character's inception, Spider-Man stories have won numerous awards, including:
  • 1962 Alley Award: Best Short Story—"Origin of Spider-Man" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Amazing Fantasy #15
  • 1963 Alley Award: Best Comic: Adventure Hero title—The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1963 Alley Award: Top Hero—Spider-Man
  • 1964 Alley Award: Best Adventure Hero Comic Book—The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1964 Alley Award: Best Giant Comic - The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1
  • 1964 Alley Award: Best Hero—Spider-Man
  • 1965 Alley Award: Best Adventure Hero Comic Book—The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1965 Alley Award: Best Hero—Spider-Man
  • 1966 Alley Award: Best Comic Magazine: Adventure Book with the Main Character in the Title—The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1966 Alley Award: Best Full-Length Story - "How Green was My Goblin", by Stan Lee & John Romita, Sr., The Amazing Spider-Man #39
  • 1967 Alley Award: Best Comic Magazine: Adventure Book with the Main Character in the Title—The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1967 Alley Award Popularity Poll: Best Costumed or Powered Hero—Spider-Man
  • 1967 Alley Award Popularity Poll: Best Male Normal Supporting Character—J. Jonah Jameson, The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1967 Alley Award Popularity Poll: Best Female Normal Supporting Character—Mary Jane Watson, The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1968 Alley Award Popularity Poll: Best Adventure Hero Strip—The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1968 Alley Award Popularity Poll: Best Supporting Character - J. Jonah Jameson, The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1969 Alley Award Popularity Poll: Best Adventure Hero Strip—The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 1997 Eisner Award: Best Artist/Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team—1997 Al Williamson, Best Inker: Untold Tales of Spider-Man #17-18
  • 2002 Eisner Award: Best Serialized Story—The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2, #30–35: "Coming Home", by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita, Jr., and Scott Hanna
  • No date: Empire magazine's fifth-greatest comic book character.[99]
  • No date: Spider-Man was the #1 superhero on Bravo's Ultimate Super Heroes, Vixens, and Villains show.[100]
  • No date: Fandomania.com rated him as #7 on their 100 Greatest Fictional Characters list.[101]



Enemies

Main article: List of Spider-Man enemies
Writers and artists over the years have established a rogues gallery of supervillains to face Spider-Man. As with him, the majority of these villains' powers originate with scientific accidents or the misuse of scientific technology, and many have animal-themed costumes or powers.[note 6] Early on Spider-Man faced such foes as the Chameleon (introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #1, March 1963), the Vulture (#2, May 1963), Doctor Octopus (#3, July 1963), the Sandman (#4, Sept. 1963), the Lizard (#6, Nov. 1963), Electro (#9, Feb. 1964), Mysterio (#13, June 1964), the Green Goblin (#14, July 1964), Kraven the Hunter (#15, Aug. 1964),the Scorpion (#20, Jan. 1965), the Rhino (#41, Oct. 1966)—the first original Lee/Romita Spider-Man villain[66]—the Shocker (#46, March 1967), and the physically powerful and well-connected criminal capo Wilson Fisk, also known as the Kingpin.[33] The Clone Saga introduces college professor Miles Warren, who becomes the Jackal, the antagonist of the storyline.[36] After the Green Goblin was killed, a derivative villain called the Hobgoblin was developed to replace him in #238 until Norman was revived later.[67]After Spider-Man rejected his symbiotic black costume, Eddie Brock, a bitter ex-journalist with a grudge against Spider-Man, bonded with the symbiote (which also hated Spider-Man for rejecting it), gaining Spider-Man's powers and abilities, and became the villain Venom in issue #298 (May 1988).[33] Brock briefly became an ally to Spider-Man when Carnage, another symbiote-based villain, went on a murderous spree in issue #344.[68] At times these enemies of Spider-Man have formed groups such as the Sinister Six to oppose Spider-Man.[69] The Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus and Venom are generally described or written as his archenemies.[70][71][72]

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