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Spiderman Action Figures Spiderman action figure was named Empire magazine's fifth greatest comic book personality. Spider-Man is one of the hottest and commercially profitable superheroes. As wonder's flagship personality and business mascot, he has appeared in numerous forms of media, including many animated & live-action television shows, syndicated paper comic strips and a successful series of movies starring actor Tobey Maguire as the "friendly neighborhood" hero.

In the comics, Spiderman is frequently referred to as "Spidey," "web-slinger," "wall-crawler," or "web-head." Marvel has featured Spiderman in several comic series, the 1st and longest-lasting of which is titled The Amazing Spider-Man. Over time, the Peter Parker personality has developed from shy high school student to uneasy university student to a married teacher & an affiliate of the superhero team the New Avengers.

Unlike previous teenager heroes such as James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes and Robin, Spiderman did not benefit from being the protege of any adult coachs like Captain America & Batman, & thus he had to learn for himself that "with great power comes great responsibility" a line included in a text box in the final panel of the first Spider-Man story, but later retroactively traced to his guardian, Uncle Ben. When the Spiderman action figure first appeared in the early 1960s, kids in superhero comic books were usually confined to the task of sidekick to the lead. The Spider-Man series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, a teenage high school student to whose "self-obsessions with refusal, incompetency, & loneliness" young readers could relate.

Spider-Man's creators gave him the ability to cling to walls, shoot spider-webs using devices of his own invention which he called "web-shooters," & react to danger quickly with his "spider-sense," enabling him to handle his many foes, including Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, the Lizard, the Green goblin, Venom and many others. Spiderman is a fictional wonder Comics superhero. The character first appeared in amazing fantasy fifteen ( Aug 1962 ), and was made by scripter & editor Stan Lee & designed by artists & plotters Steve Ditko & Jack Kirby. Lee and Ditko conceived of the personality as an orphan being raised by his Aunt May & Uncle Ben as a normal teen, having to cope with the standard struggles of youth as well as those of a costumed crime fighter.