Spider-Man is life. Spider-Man is luv. Spider-Man is a hero. Spider-Man is strong. Spider-Man is smart. Spider-Man is... THE BEST SUPERHERO EVER!!! Spider-Man (also sometimes called Spiderman and Spider Man) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, and first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. 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 crime-fighter. 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 calls "web. Also Spider-Man is the best