

However, Parker returned to his body in April 2014.

In a 2012–2014 storyline, Peter Parker dies while his mind is in the body of his enemy Doctor Octopus Doctor Octopus then lives on inside of Parker’s body, taking the role of Spider-Man in The Superior Spider-Man. In the 2010s, he joins the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, Marvel’s flagship superhero teams. Over the years, the Peter Parker character has developed from shy, nerdy high school student to troubled but outgoing college student, to married high school teacher to, in the late 2000s, a single freelance photographer, his most typical adult role. Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several comic book series, the first and longest-lasting of which is titled The Amazing Spider-Man. Unlike previous teen heroes such as Bucky and Robin, Spider-Man had no superhero mentor like Captain America and Batman he thus had to learn for himself that “with great power there must also come great responsibility”-a line included in a text box in the final panel of the first Spider-Man story but later retroactively attributed to his guardian, the late Uncle Ben. The Spider-Man series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, the high school student behind Spider-Man’s secret identity and with whose “self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness” young readers could relate. When Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist.

Spider-Man’s creators gave him super strength and agility, the ability to cling to most surfaces, shoot spider-webs using wrist-mounted devices of his own invention (which he called “web-shooters”), and react to danger quickly with his “spider-sense”, enabling him to combat his foes. Lee and Ditko conceived the character as an orphan being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and as a teenager, having to deal with the normal struggles of adolescence in addition to those of a costumed crimefighter. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (cover-dated Aug. Spider-Man is a fictional superhero who appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
