Spider-Man is a superhero in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. He has been featured in comic books, television shows, films, video games, novels, and plays.

With a single bite from a radioactive spider in the summer of 1962, New York high school nerd Peter Parker was transformed into the world’s favorite webslinging crimefighter, dispensing wisecracks along with monthly bouts of four-color justice in what would become Marvel Comics ‘ marquee series — and a new way of writing the increasingly popular American cultural phenomenon of superhero comics.