
Spiderman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero that appears in comic books released by Marvel Comics. Developed by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (cover-dated Aug. 1962).
Ditko and Lee conceived the type as an orphan being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, so that as an adolescent, suffering the ordinary fights of adolescence in addition to those of a costumed crime-fighter. Spider man's originators gave him superhuman strength and agility, the capability to cling to many surfaces, shoot spider webs using hand-installed apparatuses of his own invention (which he called "