Original Description:
Spider-Man is a fictional character, a comic book superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. In the comics Spider-Man is often referred to as Spidey, web-slinger, wall-crawler, or web-head. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 on August 1962. The character was an orphan being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and as a teenager