Amazing Spider-Man

## Spider-Man

*"I'm Peter Parker."
"That's not possible."
"I'm Spider-Man in my world."*
―Spider-Man and Michelle Jones[src]**Peter Benjamin Parker** is a superhero who possesses spider-like abilities and operates in New York City as the amazing **Spider-Man**.

Orphaned at the age of five, Peter was raised by his aunt and uncle over the course of the next few years. Parker's search for answers about the mystery of his parents and their deaths eventually drove him to investigating the establishment of Oscorp, as well as Curt Connors. Though Peter's new friendship with Connors and the attempts to find a remedy soon yielded successful experimental results, Peter began to neglect his relationships with his loved ones, ultimately leading Ben's death at the hands of a shoplifter. As Parker continued his heroism, he entered a relationship with Gwen Stacy. After Connors' experiments turned him into a mutation dubbed the Lizard, which led to a final confrontation between the two, in which George Stacy, after of Gwen and adversary of Parker, was killed, and Connors was arrested.

Over the course of the following year, Peter continued to fight crime in New York, becoming a sensation in the media and a subject of much debate for New York's citizens. However, a guilt-ridden Parker and Gwen broke up as a result. In spite of this, Peter and Gwen were forced to work together once more with the emergence of supervillain Max Dillon, an Oscorp employee who had fallen into a tank of genetically mutated eels in an accident at the Tower and gained electrical powers as a result. Peter would also garner his own personal problem with the return of his childhood friend Harry Osborn in the wake of his father's death, during which Osborn theorized that Spider-Man's blood was the only cure to prevent him from suffering his father's fate. Peter reconciled with Gwen, just before Dillon left to take over Oscorp's Power Grid, going on a rampage and attacking the civilians. With Gwen's assistance, Peter managed to cause an overload in the Grid, overcharging Dillon's form and destroying him. However, Harry had concurrently injected himself with the venom, accelerating his condition instead of curing it and sending him into a violent frenzy. The vengeful Harry attacked Peter and Gwen, and in the subsequent battle, Gwen was killed, leaving Peter devastated. Peter realized that Gwen would have wanted him to keep on going, and made his return as Spider-Man just in time to confront the former leader of the Russian Mob, Aleksei Syksevitch, who had broken out of prison using a rhinoceros machine.

Years later, due to an error in Doctor Strange's spell, Spider-Man was summoned to Strange's universe, meeting that reality's Spider-Man along with another alternate-reality Spider-Man, as well as with Michelle Jones and Ned Leeds. Learning that Lizard and Electro had also crossed universes, Spider-Man recreated an antidote for Lizard to use in a subsequent battle at Liberty Island. There, the three Spider-Men, and Otto Octavius, combated several universe-displaced villains to have them cured of their afflictions. During the fight, Spider-Man managed to make up for his past failure by saving Jones from a long fall. Finally, after the villains had been cured, Spider-Man embraced his alternate selves before being returned to his home universe by Strange.

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2. ↑ The Amazing Spider-Man - Marvel.com