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|image=[[Image:Amazingspiderman50.jpg|250px]]

|caption=Cover art for ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (vol. 2) #50.<br>Art by [[J. Scott Campbell]].

|character_name=Spider-Man aka EMO BOY

|real_name=Peter Benjamin Parker

|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]

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|powers = [[Spider-Man's powers and equipment|Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes; ability to stick to solid surfaces; clairvoyant "spider-sense"; night vision; healing factor; toxic stingers that extend from forearms]]; ability to produce both [[biotic material|organic]] and [[synthetic fiber|synthetic]] spider-webbing

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'''Spider-Man''' ('''Peter Benjamin Parker''') is a [[fictional character|fictional]] [[Marvel Comics]] [[superhero]] created by [[Stan Lee]] and [[Steve Ditko]]. Since his incarnation and [[First appeared|first appearance]] in ''[[Amazing Fantasy]]'' #15 (Aug. 1962), he has become one of the world's most popular, enduring and commercially successful [[superhero|superheroes]].In recent times he has been seen to become a scene emo.

When Spider-Man first saw print in the 1960s, [[teenage]] characters in superhero comic books were usually [[sidekick]]s. The Spider-Man series broke ground by featuring a hero who himself was an adolescent, to whose "self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness" young readers could relate.<ref>Wright, Bradford W. ''Comic Book Nation''. (Johns Hopkins, 2001) p. 210</ref> Spider-Man has since appeared in various media including several animated and live-action [[Spider-Man on television|television series]], [[syndicated]] newspaper [[The Amazing Spider-Man#Newspaper comic strip|comic strips]] and a successful [[Spider-Man films|series of films]].