Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Alex Saviuk - Amazing Spider-Man Comic Strip | Comics Kingdom About this Comic The Authors The Characters It was on the pages of Amazing Fantasy No. 15 where the Amazing Spider-Man first appeared. And in March 1963, one year after his first appearance, Spider-Man was starring in his own comic book and on his way to becoming Marvel Comics' most popular super hero ever! Through the years, Spider-Man has also been a superpower in the world of licensing, appearing in paperback books, on posters, as an action figure, and in video games. And in addition to his licensing ventures, Spider-Man is also capturing bad guys in a hit animated TV show. In 1977, Spider-Man began starring in his own newspaper comic strip written by his creator, Stan Lee. The Amazing Spider-Man can be seen in newspapers worldwide and was a part of the first-ever comic strip/comic book crossover story. In the summer of 2002, Spider-Man swung onto the silver screen and broke box office records with its massive first weekend receipts.

Based upon the freak accident that miraculously granted Peter Parker with his incredible spider-like abilities, the movie starring Tobey Maguire became a smash hit with audiences worldwide. The sequel was released in the summer of 2004. Stan Lee Known to millions as the man whose Super Heroes propelled Marvel Comics to its preeminent position in the comic book industry, Stan Lee's famous co-creations include Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, The Avengers, Silver Surfer and Dr. Strange, among many others. Lee first became publisher of Marvel Comics in 1972 and is presently the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Enterprises, Inc. and a member of the Editorial Board of Marvel Comics. In 1977, he introduced Spider-Man as a syndicated newspaper strip that went on to become one of the most successful of all syndicated adventure strips. Spider-Man now appears in more than 500 newspapers worldwide making it the longest running of all Super Hero strips. Without question, Stan "the Man" Lee has exerted enormous influence over the comic book industry throughout his many years.

He had a hand in creating many of Marvel's most recognized characters, the majority of which have been successfully licensed and marketed since 1965. The numbers are impressive. More than 2 billion of his comic books have been published in 75 countries and in 25 languages. In Europe alone, Stan Lee's name appears on over 35 million comics annually. Each year, X-Men sells more than 13 million copies. In 1981, Stan Lee transformed his Spider-Man and Hulk creations into Saturday morning and syndicated television cartoons. When Marvel Comics and Marvel Productions were acquired by New World Entertainment in 1986, Stan's horizons expanded even further, giving him the opportunity to become more deeply involved in the creation and development of filmed projects for both the big and small screen. He supervised such diverse animated series as X-Men, Spider-Man and The Hulk. To date, Stan's characters have populated over 24 separate television series, all of which continue in syndication around the world. Stan Lee's admirers are not limited to the younger generation.

His avowed fans include Presidents (Ronald Reagan once said he started every day reading Spider-Man comics and George Bush, in presenting Stan with a Medal of the Arts, praised him for encouraging and assisting "millions of young people to broaden their own imaginations"). Media titan Steven Spielberg once explained that "Stan and I do the same thing. Only my pictures move." Even his competitors have only good things to say: "Most of my generation of writers learned our craft from or through Stan Lee. He's an incredible part of the business," states Paul Levitz of DC Comics. Now Stan Lee is broadening his horizons with his new company, "POW! Entertainment," where Stan is currently developing entirely new franchises for film and television. He still proudly cherishes the title of Marvel's Chairman Emeritus. Alex Saviuk Saviuk pencils the Spider-Man Sunday strip and inks the daily Spider-Man strips. Saviuk began his professional career at DC Comics in 1977 after studying sequential art with Will Eisner at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Within a few short months, he became the regular artist on such titles as Green Lantern and The Flash.

His resume extended to include Superman, Hawkman, Aquaman, The Atom, and Air Wave, among others. In 1986, Saviuk forged ahead to Marvel Comics where he soon became the penciller on Defenders of the Earth featuring The Phantom, Flash Gordon and Mandrake the Magician. Then, after successfully filling in on The Amazing Spider-Man, he worked on the Web of Spider-Man for more than seven years followed by two more years on Spider-Man Adventuresbased on the animated series. From 1997 to 1998, Saviuk pencilled the last 12 issues of The X-Files for Topps Comics. In 1997, he began pencilling the Sunday Spider-Man newspaper strip. In 2003, he began inking the Spider-Man dailies as well. Saviuk also joined ranks with the Swedish publisher Egmont and Australian publisher Frew in chronicling the adventures of The Phantom. In addition to comics, Saviuk likes to create storyboards and conceptual art for use in advertising and films. He lives in Florida.

Peter Parker During a scientific experiment, hard-luck high-school student Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider and given superhuman powers. But it wasn't until after he refused to stop a thief, who would later murder his Uncle Ben, that Peter learned his most valuable lesson: "With great power there must also come great responsibility." From that moment on, Peter Parker has used his superstrength (and the ability to stick to walls) in his never-ending battle against evil as the amazing Spider-Man! Mary Jane Watson-Parker After several rocky years as Peter's on-again-off-again girlfriend, Peter and MJ decided to tie the knot in 1987. It was shortly before their big day that Peter revealed his superpowered alter ego to her. Now, in addition to her adjustment to marriage and her career, Mary Jane has also had to adjust to the realization that every day they spend together could be their last. Aunt May After the death of her husband, Peter's aunt has focused her energies on him. Always concerned for his welfare, Aunt May would really have a heart attack if she knew what Peter was up to in his spare time. J.

Jonah Jameson Although he has no superpowers, perhaps no one is more of a nemesis to Spider-Man than the cantankerous J. Jonah Jameson. As publisher of the Daily Bugle, this cigar-chomping newspaperman has dedicated his life to destroying the Web-swinger's reputation. In Jameson's mind, the world would be a perfect place without the presence of its superpowered inhabitants especially that of Spider-Man! Joseph "Robbie" Robertson Fortunately, not everyone in the world shares Jameson's hatred for Spider-Man. Next to his wife Mary Jane, Spider-Man's biggest supporter has to be Robbie Robertson. As editor in chief of the Daily Bugle, Robbie has spent his career trying to convince his publisher of Spider-Man's value to the city, but to no avail. Peter has always had the utmost respect for this honest, hardworking family man. And although Peter can never tell him, it's Robbie's faith in Spider-Man that has kept him from giving up his career as a crime-fighter on more than one occasion. Dr. Doom Victor Von Doom's scarred visage is the result of an experiment gone bad!

Shame caused this brilliantbutmad scientist to hide his disfigurement in a metallic, armored exoskeleton which he has endowed with a number of weapons and other surprises for his arch enemy Spider-Man. Crazed by his accident and driven by an insane loathing for the rest of his "inferior" colleagues in the world of science, Doom is bent on world domination through his many monstrous creations. Dr. Octopus Dr. Otto Octavius was a brilliant atomic researcher who developed a harness of four mechanical limbs to assist him in handling radioactive substances at safe distances. A freak laboratory accident left Octavius' invention permanently bonded to his body and his mind forever altered. Doc Ock (as he is commonly known) will stop at nothing to acquire power and wealth! And if our friendly neighborhood arachnid gets crushed along the way, then so be it! The Kingpin Ostensibly the president and owner of many legitimate New York City-based businesses, Wilson Fisk masterminds the criminal activities of the shadowy East Coast underworld. Although he is publicly known as the "Kingpin of crime," his dual identity has never been officially proven.

A fanatic about bodybuilding, he has excelled in the Japanese art of sumo and takes great pleasure in physical combat with his enemies. Peter Parker (Earth-616) | Spider-Man Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia See: Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 Spider-Man fighting his most infamous enemies With the choice to become a hero, Peter thought it was a good idea to join the Fantastic Four because he thought they were paid for their good deeds. As Spider-Man, Peter gave up a good portion of his own personal life. He had less time to spend with his family and friends, and as a result, less time was devoted to his school work. During this time, Peter's grades began to suffer, as did his relationships with others. However, the one person who found him to be a "swell fellow" was Betty Brant of the Daily Bugle . Peter met her on one of his first visits to the Bugle, where he was introduced to her boss and Spider-Man's number one critic, J. Jonah Jameson . Her boss was determined to make Spider-Man public enemy #1, unaware of the fact that Spider-Man and Peter Parker were one and the same.

Betty and Peter developed an almost instant connection with one another, and soon started a relationship with one another that did not last long. See: Amazing Spider-Man #74 - #79 Spider-Man... No More! Peter eventually started wondering if he may be better off not being a normal civilian and leaving behind his Spider-Man costume and crime fighting, since no one seemed to appreciate the good deeds Spider-Man did. After much thinking, a man named Wilson Fisk known as the Kingpin , abducted J. J. Jameson. Peter decided it was his responsibility to be a hero for any and everyone, no matter what people said about Spider-Man and saved J. Jonah Jameson. A mystic object called the Tablet of Life and Time , that was in Peter's college at the time, was taken by Kingpin. After being in the possession of many people, the Tablet got to the Maggia boss, Silvermane, who forced Curt Connors to translate the tablet’s ancient writings. Connors was also forced to create a powerful youth serum from it for Silvermane. After Silvermane drank the serum, it appeared to work and he became a young man again.

However, the serum made Silvermane's body to degenerate pass a human’s baby stage. After this, Connors turned into the Lizard again and escaped. Spider-Man then teamed up with the Human Torch to take him down. Spider-Man also meets the Prowler and a new costumed Black Widow , people who he would meet and clash with regularly in the future. Another version of the Spider-Slayer would come about in the form of a "Mark II" with J. Jonah's face on the robot that Spider-Man once again defeated. The Death of the George Stacy See: Amazing Spider-Man #90 - 93 Using his mental sync with his tentacles, Doc Ock controlled his tentacles from prison to free him. They freed him and he started to hijack a plane. Spider-Man prevented Doc Ock from hijacking the plane and destroying the city's power plant. Spider-Man thought he stopped Doc Ock, only to be caught by surprise the very next day. Spider-Man and Doc Ock took their fight to a rooftop where the intense battle caused the building to fall apart.

Some of the falling debris from the battle was closing in on a child, and at the last second, George Stacy saved the child, at the cost of his own life. After defeating Doc Ock, Spider-Man ran over to George to see if he was okay. George then admitted that he knew Spider-Man and Peter Parker were the same person (much to the surprise of Peter) then died in Spider-Man's arms. Afterwards, Peter faced many superheroes, thinking he was one who killed George Stacy. Such as the X-Men's Bobby Drake (Iceman) and the Prowler (Hobie Brown). After proving himself to them, he went to London to try to prevent Gwen from leaving New York because of hers father's death. Four Arms, More Baddies, and Helping The Hulk See: Amazing Spider-Man #119 With his life as Spider-Man only causing him trouble, Peter starts to make a formula that will take away his Spider-Powers. After going to sleep, then waking up, Peter saw that he had an extra four arms on his sides.

Stressed for help, Spider-Man went to Curt Connors for help to make a cure for his extra four arms, while trying to help Connors to become the Lizard again. Spider-Man encountered a more villains such as a man called Michael Morbius , a vampire who wanted to kill Spider-Man, the Beetle and more Spider-Slayers. Peter eventually returned to normal, shortly after helping the Hulk fight Doc Ock and Hammerhead in Canada. The Death of Gwen Stacy See: Amazing Spider-Man #120 and #121 All seemed normal for both Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy, as well as Peter's life as Spider-Man doing his job as usual. Seeing that none of his friends were paying attention to him, Harry fell to LSD. However, Norman Osborn's alter-ego as Green Goblin resurfaced, and he suited up as the Green Goblin to kidnap Gwen Stacy. Spider-Man found them at the top of the Brooklyn Bridge , where the Goblin was holding Gwen. After a few words, Goblin dropped Gwen off the bridge to kill her. Naturally, Spider-Man dived after her and after seeing his speed could not match hers, he spun a web to catch her by her leg.

Due to the fast stop, Gwen's neck snapped and she died right as she was stopped. Goblin then told Spider-Man that it was impossible for him get Gwen, since she was falling to fast and he knew the web would kill her. Holding her dead body, Spider-Man was enraged and took after Goblin. With Goblin showing no remorse for her death, Spider-Man was so angry he started to beat Goblin, almost to near death with Goblin being surprised that Spider-Man snapped and unleashed his full strength upon him. Suddenly realizing that killing him would only make him just as much as monster as the Goblin, Spider-Man released him after pinning him against a wall. Goblin used this opportunity to activate his glider to impale Spider-Man. However, he did not account for Spider-Man's Spider-Sense and he jumped out of the way resulting in Goblin impaling himself and dying. After watching one of his greatest enemies die, Spider-Man reflects on even though he is dead, he feels no satisfaction and Gwen's death would still be a major part of his life. Afterwards, Mary Jane consoled Peter after the death of Gwen.

Having fingers pointed at him for the death of both Stacys, Spider-Man was confronted by Luke Cage and the Punisher, only to prove himself and befriend them both. Soon after, Harry Osborn (Norman Osborn's son) took the mantle of the Green Goblin and kidnapped Flash Thompson, Mary Jane and Aunt May. Spider-Man found Harry at his father's old home and had him arrested and freed his friends. The Original Clone Saga See: Amazing Spider-Man #149 After the death of Gwen Stacy, Peter was in a state of depression that almost led him to quit being Spider-Man altogether as he regularly blamed himself for Gwen's death. After many months of grieving, Gwen Stacy pops up, seemingly alive with no real explanation. Peter as Spider-Man investigated this sudden return of Gwen, and would come to find out that her return was the work of a new villain called the "Jackal" who was actually Miles Warren, one of Peter and Gwen's biochemist professor at Empire State University where they both studied. It was revealed that Miles had fallen in love with the young Gwen Stacy when she was alive.

But when Gwen died, Miles was driven into insanity and sought to clone her, to bring her back to life, while blaming Spider-Man for her death. After many failed attempts, Miles made perfect clones of Gwen Stacy and even Spider-Man. With this new clone of Spider-Man made, Miles tells the clone that he is the original Peter Parker and kidnaps the original Peter Parker to do battle with Miles' clone who thought he was the original Peter Parker. After much battle, the two Spider-Men decide to team-up against Miles, while he was planting a bomb nearby. After attempts to prevent Jackal from escaping, the bomb goes off, seemingly killing one of the Spider-Men and Jackal. Peter drops the body of the dead Spider-Man in an incinerator and starts to perform a genetics test on himself to see if he is the first and original Peter Parker. However, nervous from the entire experience and what the result will be, Peter does not look at the test results and claims that he is the real Peter Parker because he remembers having feelings for Mary Jane before the clone appeared, and comes to a conclusion that he is the first and original Peter Parker, and continues his role as Spider-Man.

The clone of Gwen Stacy hopes to move on with her life by leaving Empire State University to start over somewhere new. A "Friend" from Outer Space While reading a newspaper about certain heroes going missing, Spider-Man was zapped out of New York and into Battleworld, created by the Beyonder. Spider-Man fights alongside the heroes, but during a battle of heroes vs. villains, Spider-Man's costume is ripped and damaged. The heroes point out the base where Spider-Man can get a new costume of some kind and he head over. Spider-Man then witnesses a black floating ball that morphs around himself, getting rid of the rips in his costume, but making it completely different and entirely black with a giant white spider on the chest and eye pieces. Spider-Man takes the costume and continues to fight alongside the heroes to stop Galactus from devouring the planet. After the first Secret Wars is over, most are sent back to where they came from including Spider-Man, who popped up back in New York. Every noticed Spider-Man's new costume and he decided to keep it. However, he started to notice some new features about the costume that his old one didn't have.

This new black costume had it's own stronger and organic webbing and it was able to turn into regular clothing on command. During his time with the black suit, Spider-Man caught a murderer the "Sin-Eater" whom Edward Brock was writing about in the paper. After publishing the man's identity in the paper and the supposed dialogue he had with him, but after Spider-Man discovered the real Sin-Eater and brought him to justice, it was revealed that Eddie was making the entire thing up and was blackballed from all media outlets. This made Eddie angry and made him grow a deep hate for Spider-Man for ruining his life. Finding out the suit is alive Meanwhile, Spider-Man had questions about his new suit, since it made him web Black Cat back into his arms and the suit was taking out Spider-Man at night while he was asleep to fight crime. Unaware of the latter but still tired, Spider-Man web swung to the Baxter Building to enlist the help of Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four who was eager to study the costume. After some testing, it was found out that the black suit that Peter was wearing actually an alive symbiote and was trying to permanently bond with Peter, the host.

Peter tried to get the suit off, but the symbiote was only getting tighter around him. Mr. Fantastic finally decided to blast it off Peter using a Sonic Blaster he had and keep the symbiote for study. Peter swung back home in a spare Fantastic Four costume, happy that the symbiote was off him. Meanwhile later that night, the symbiote snuck out of Reed Richards' lab and got itself back onto Peter by changing transforming into Peter's classic red and blue classic costume. Peter put it on, and the symbiote made itself apparent once more. Worried, Peter gambled that the Our Lady of Saints Church bells would produce a sound intense enough to get the symbiote off him once again. However, Peter passed out before the symbiote did. Feeling sorry for Peter and confused, it willingly left Peter, weak and alone. The Rise of Venom Getting the symbiote off The Symbiote, weak and dying, slithered down into the church where Eddie Brock was, and bonded with him. Eddie dubbed himself "Venom" and waited and watched Peter as Spider-Man to strike at the right time.

Peter returned to his red and blue classic, but Black Cat adore his former black symbiote so she made him a cloth version that Peter could wear and get off easy. The Death of Jean DeWolff See: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 After Spider-Man defeats Electro, he finds Mary Jane moving in. He also ponders how he'll continue to provide for him and Mary Jane in the near future. At work, the Daily Bugle (minus JJJ) surprises Peter with a party to kick off his upcoming wedding to Mary Jane. That day, Peter jump into the ceiling and goes down to one knee where Peter proposes to Mary Jane again, and she says yes. Mary Jane then leaves for a meeting, when suddenly her old boyfriend presents her with two tickets to Paris, that she can only take if she skips the wedding. The next day, Peter's best man, Flash Thompson, and his best friend, Harry Osborn, take Peter out for a bachelor party. Later at City Hall, all of the guests are present, but both Peter and Mary Jane are absent. They both arrive late and are married by Mary Jane's uncle, Spenser Watson .

Mary Jane surprises Peter with the tickets to Paris with which her ex-boyfriend tried to tempt her with. Happy she turned him down, Peter accepts and they both go off on their honeymoon to France, starting their new life together as Mr. and Mrs. Parker. Kraven's Last Hunt See: Part 14, Spider-Man Unlimited #2 Carnage and his team During Harry Osborn's funeral, Peter promises Mary Jane that he'll take a break from being Spider-Man for some time. Meanwhile, serial killer Cletus Kasady is being transferred to the newly opened Ravencroft Institute. Unknown to anyone, however, it's revealed that the Carnage symbiote had permently fused with Kasady's blood. Kasady releases it by cutting his wrists with his handcuffs, creating a perfect copy and turns into Carnage once again. After killing many guards, Carnage frees female super villian, Shriek, who has the ability to manipulate sound at will. Both set out to find and kill Venom and Spider-Man. Along the way, they add Spider-Man's Doppelganger as their "pet", along with Demogoblin, and Carrion.

Once Peter hears that Carnage has broken out of jail, he breaks his promise to Mary Jane and goes on a hunt for Carnage. As Spider-Man, Peter finds Carnage's team but is violently beaten and overpowered by Doppelganger and Shriek. Just before the finishing blow, Cloak (along with Dagger) come to Spider-Man's aid by teleporting him to somewhere safe to tend to his wounds. Spider-Man has now formed his own team consisting of himself, Venom, Cloak, Dagger and Black Cat. They attack the villains but they are again defeated. After the defeat they add Captain America, Michael Morbis, Deathlok, Iron Fist, Nightwatch and Firestar to the team. All the heroes band together in a final fight against Carnage's team at the Statue of Liberty where Venom is being held. Venom escapes and joins Spider-Man in the final battle. In a last ditch effort, Iron Fist and Dagger channel their energy through a device Deathlok has to create an energy that will bring love and hope into all of Carnage's team, to weaken them for further attack by Spider-Man's team. All the villains are defeated, except for Carnage who escapes.

Soon after Carnage fakes his death, Carnage ambushes Venom alone. Venom tackles Carnage into an electric generator and it explodes, defeating Carnage. Carnage is then placed in a stasis chamber while the rest of his team are taken to jail while Venom makes his escape. The Final Chapter After many more months of adventuring, Norman Osborn returned to take control of the Daily Bugle, by providing faked evidence that he had never been the Green Goblin and discrediting all contradicting sources. This angered Peter, which caused Spider-Man to brutally beat Norman, which was all caught on a hidden camera in his house. On a staged confrontation and the apparent murder of a small-time criminal using what appeared to be Spider-Man's webbing, Osborn was able to create the fake impression that Spider-Man was a criminal, and increased pressure was placed on capturing him. In order to continue his crime-fighting career and investigate the fraudulent claims, Parker relinquished his Spider-Man identity while creating four unique personas: Dusk, Hornet , Prodigy, and Ricochet .

As Dusk , Parker was able to investigate the villain Trapster , the only person capable of creating a convincing duplicate of his webbing and convince him to confess to the crime to hurt Osborn and publicly exonerate Spider-Man of the murder charge. He also used Prodigy to present fake evidence that someone else had attacked Osborn dressed as Spider-Man, at which point he resumed his Spider-Man identity. Later, the Black Marvel (Golden Age hero) acquired the four costumes and gave them to four teenagers, forming a team he named the Slingers. Aunt May was later discovered to still be alive; the woman who seemingly died was in actuality a genetically modified actress. Parker, Mary Jane, and Aunt May moved to an apartment in Manhattan. Parker had promised Mary Jane to give up his Spider-Man identity, but he would continually sneak out at night as Spider-Man. Their marriage began to strain, partially because of Mary Jane's new modeling career and in part because she discovered Parker's secret. Before they could reconcile, however, Mary Jane was supposedly killed when her airplane exploded. For a long time, Parker refused to believe she was dead, but eventually grew to accept it.

Parker discovered Mary Jane was alive, she was captured by a villain who had been stalking her prior to her airplane flight. After a brief reconciliation, Mary Jane requested to leave Peter once more, saying that she needed time to adjust by herself. A New Lease on Life Peter took a job as a teacher at his somewhat beloved school, Midtown High. After getting this job, he encountered a strange man named Ezekiel Sims who possessed powers very similar to his, and presented Peter with the possibility that his powers had been bestowed on him by mystical forces, effectively making Peter a "totem" that connected the animal to human realms. Soon, Peter encountered villains linked to him through his new-found nature as a Spider-Totem. The first was Morlun , who almost beat Spider-Man to death and seemingly met his end after Peter injected himself with a lethal dose of radiation, which hurt Morlun whenever they made contact and weakened him enough for his servant Dex to take the opportunity and shoot him down. Peter let his guard down after the exhausting encounter with Morlun, allowing Aunt May to discover his secret identity when she entered his apartment and found him sleeping with his tattered costume on the floor.

After May came to grips with the fact her nephew was Spider-Man, their relationship grew stronger. Mary Jane Watson also returned to Peter's life, and both lovers reunited. After defeating Shathra , a predator who originated from the Astral Plane, Spider-Man was warned by Ezekiel about the coming of the Gatekeeper, a mystical being who allegedly saw Peter unworthy of his powers and wanted to kill him. During an ensuing confrontation against Spider-Man, the Gatekeeper revealed the truth. Peter was chosen to become a Spider-Totem due to his nature, a prey to bullying during his teenage years whose reserving anger made him the perfect candidate to become a hunter who would never give in to submission again. Through visions imparted by the Gatekeeper, Peter also discovered that Ezekiel was the one Spider-Totem who are deemed unworthy, due to having searched for the source of the power instead of having it bestowed upon him, and that the predators that confronted Peter were actually meant for Ezekiel. As Peter was recovering from the encounter with the Gatekeeper, Ezekiel brought him to the temple where he had obtained his powers in South America and planned to use him in a sacrificial ritual to maintain his abilities.

The ritual linked Peter's mind with Ezekiel's, and made him realize he had wasted his gifts unlike Peter. When a spider monster emerged to kill Peter, Ezekiel gave his life to save him. A Shaman named Miguel who had previously helped Ezekiel buried his body. Peter asked him whether his powers came from science or magic, Miguel told him that only one explanation didn't necessarily contradict the other. Changes came to Spider-Man's very own physical nature when he confronted a new villain known as the Queen , who invaded New York and used her powers to take control over the citizens who possessed the vestige of an insect gene. As a consequence of a mutation caused by the Queen during a confrontation against her, Peter's body began to slowly transform into that of a giant spider and fell into becoming a prey to the Queen's mind-control. The Queen planned to use Peter's mutated body to breed, but it seemingly die due to complications arising from the transformation. From the husk of his monstrous form, Peter emerge alive and well, but having gained the ability to produce organic webbing, in addition he had augmented strength and spider-sense.

During a subsequent fight against the Queen, Spider-Man disarmed a bomb she planned to detonate, and she was seemingly killed when S.H.I.E.L.D attacked her subterranean base. Avengers Disassembled The Spectacular Spider-Man (Vol. 2) 18 An old Avengers member, Jack of Hearts in a seemingly zombie form appears outside the Avengers Mansion. Scott Lang, the current Ant-Man addresses Jack saying that's going to be okay. After Jack realizes who he is talking to, he says "I'm sorry" and explodes, killing Scott Lang. Afterwards, Tony Stark for some strange reason, starts acting drunk out of nowhere while addressing the UN, and even threatens to kill the Latverian ambassador, raising his replusor at him. After the stunt, Tony can't seem to remember having anything to drink before the addressing. Back at the Avengers Mansion as people are trying to figure out what is happening, Vision crashes an Avenger Quinjet into the mansion. Vision starts to summon Ultron robots to attack the Avengers. She-Hulk goes crazy and literally rips Vision in half and starts attacking other Avengers.

After getting control of She-Hulk, the Kree start a ground assault on the all the Avengers, including Spider-Man, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Falcon and others. All of Hawkeye's explosive arrows are then lit up by a Kree laser and after seeing this, he grabs a flying Kree and crashes it into a ship, destroying it and killing himself in the process. Doctor Strange then arrives, telling the Avengers that the reason why Tony was drunk, the Kree attacked and many other horrible things happened out of nowhere is because the Scarlet Witch is slowly growing more insane, and as she grows more insane, she starts to warp reality to her favor, since she driven by the lost of her children years ago, that she created herself. She tries to hides these memories, but it just makes her grow even more crazy enough to think that the Avengers took her children from her. Captain America, Doctor Strange and others go after Wanda, with Strange placing her in a trance, with Magneto to taking her away. A month later, Tony is removed as head of defense and disbands the entire Avengers team, due to lack of funds to support the team.

House of M A meeting is held by Professor Charles Xavier with the X-Men, Avengers and other solo heroes like Spider-Man to determine what the heroes should do about Wanda Maximoff's dangerous reality warping powers, which caused the death of Hawkeye, Ant-Man and other horrible events to happen. Wolverine boldly speaks up, saying that Wanda must be killed in order to save their reality. The group continues to talk it over, but Quicksilver, spying on the group takes this news back to his sister and father, claiming that they will kill Wanda. Magneto tells Quicksilver that maybe killing Wanda is the right idea. Xavier arrives on the devastated island of Genosha with both teams, but before anyone can look, all the members of every team that came with Xavier (starting with Xavier) starts to dissolve into an incoming white light, one by one. Soon, Spider-Man is the only one left as the white light overtakes him as well. A Whole New World When the white light is gone, it is seen that the world that was once Earth-616's history has changed.

Cyclops and Emma Frost are now married, Doctor Strange is a psychologist, Carol Danvers is Captain Marvel and America's most beloved superhero, Charles Xavier is dead, Gambit is a common criminal, once Captain America, Steve Rogers is an aged veteran and Spider-Man is a celebrity hero that is married to Gwen Stacy in New York City with his son, Richy and an alive uncle Ben Parker. Wolverine wakes up in this strange new world comes to the conclusion that Magneto had Scarlet Witch alter reality so that everyone has their best wishes granted. With the help of Luke Cage's resistance, Emma Frost and another girl named Layla, they start to unlock people's memories including Spider-Man who, after seeing what his real life is like, breaks down in tears. Spider-Man then teams up with Luke Cage's team to take down Scarlet Witch once and for all. However, after it is revealed by Doctor Strange that it was Quicksilver fault that the world is this way because of what he told Wanda to do, an angry Magneto with his old memories unlocked, kills his son in front of Scarlet Witch.

After an argument with Magneto, Wanda says "No more mutants." causing the infamous M-Day, where the mutant population to go from millions, to hundreds in a blink of an eye and causes reality to go back to normal. The Other Months following from the disbandment of the Avengers, Peter joined forces with a fortuitous group of heroes present in the Raft Superhuman Security Prison to help contain escaping inmates. Once the situation was contained, the group remained together and became the New Avengers, without the governments' involvement and financial burdens towards the Avengers' history. Peter, May and Mary Jane subsequently moved to the team's headquarters in the Avengers Tower after both Peter's and May's places were destroyed by a mutated former classmate named Charlie Weiderman. After joining the New Avengers, Peter discovered that his skin was shedding for some reason. Peter had to know that the situation was hopeless, Morlun got into a fight with him and brutally defeated him, ripping his left eye out and eating it. The bloodied, rapidly shedding Spider-Man was rushed to the hospital. Morlun attacked him again and MJ attempts to stop him, but Morlun throws her across the room and breaks her arm.

However, Peter wakes up and his savage, spider-side takes over, developing sharp teeth and stingers in his wrists. He seemingly killed Morlun in front of Mary Jane, then falling dead after. Iron Man took away Peter's body later, but as the New Avengers mourned over his presumed death in another room, Spider-Man's body disappeared, leaving behind his shed skin. Peter's body had briefly sprung to life and formed a cocoon underneath a bridge. In this cocoon, a voice tells Peter he never understood what he was and is too scared to truly be a "Spider-Man", only focusing on his humanity and not his inner spider. Morlun managed to kill the human, but the spider survived and killed Morlun to save them both. It tells him that he will only be reborn if he accepts both parts, asking him: "Are you the man who dreamed of being a spider? Or the spider who dreamed of being a man? Are you the one...or are you the other?" Peter agreed and is resurrected with a new and completely healed body. He went to the Avengers Tower and reunites with MJ and Aunt May.

He encountered a being made of thousands of pirate spiders that ate his old body called Ero , who claimed that they are both parts of the same whole, that cosmic forces are wanting control of his life and that “she” is his opposite. She told him a spider-deity known as the Great Weaver thought that his death was premature and revived him, others disagreed and was being pulled in different directions as a result. After a brief fight, "she" escaped. Peter to try and reconcile his changes, resulting from the confrontation with Morlun and the shedding of his skin caused by 'the man and the spider'. While saving everyone inside collapsing building, he discovered he gained greater speed, poisonous razor-sharp stingers located within his arms, night vision, increased sensory awareness via vibratory patterns transmitted through the hairs on his body and through his web lines, a greater clinging ability, and equally superhuman strength in order to carry heavy objects on his back.

James Franco - Biography - IMDb James Franco Biography Showing all 82 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (48) | Personal Quotes (23) | Salary (3) Overview (4) 5' 11" (1.8 m) Mini Bio (1) Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born in Palo Alto, California on April 19, 1978. His mother, Betsy Franco , is Jewish, and his father, Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, was of Portuguese and Swedish descent, and ran a Silicon Valley business. James's mother, a writer, has occasionally acted. Growing up with his two younger brothers, Dave Franco , also an actor, and Tom Franco , James graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1996 and went on to attend UCLA, majoring in English. To overcome his shyness, he got into acting while studying there, which, much to his parents' dismay, he left after only one year.

After fifteen months of intensive study at Robert Carnegie's Playhouse West, James began actively pursuing his dream of finding work as an actor in Hollywood. In that short time, he landed himself a starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999). The show, however, was not a hit to its viewers at the time, and was canceled after its first year. Now, it has become a cult-hit. Prior to joining Freaks and Geeks (1999), Franco starred in the TV miniseries To Serve and Protect (1999). After that, he had a starring role in Whatever It Takes (2000). Although he'd been working steadily, it wasn't until the TNT made-for-television movie, James Dean (2001) that James rose to fan-magazine fame and got to show off his talent. Since then, he has been working non-stop. After losing the lead role to Tobey Maguire , James settled for the part of "Harry Osborne", Spider-Man's best friend in the summer 2002 major hit Spider-Man (2002). He returned to the Osborne role for the next two films in the trilogy.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Breighton Lee; bonbon_03@hotmail.com Trade Mark (3) Tends to play characters with a troubled past or life Often plays real life characters Trivia (48) Auditioned for the role of Peter Parker in Spider-Man (2002), but was given the part of Harry Osborn. James appeared in two movies that premiered on the same day, Deuces Wild (2002) and Spider-Man (2002), both opening on May 3rd. The success of the two films was highly varied as Spider-Man film has to date amassed a box office gross some 67 times greater than that of Deuces. He has two younger brothers, Tom Franco and Dave Franco . His parents, Betsy Franco & Doug Franco, met at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. In his spare time he likes to paint. Was named one of People Magazine's 50 Hottest Bachelors [2004] Has his own production company - Rabbit Bandini Productions. Went by the name of Ted in high school and was voted "Best Smile" at Palo Alto High School.

Was named one of Salon.com's "10 men who might just inspire the rebirth of Jewish male cool." Although he always hated it, he started smoking for his lead role in James Dean (2001). His father was of half Portuguese and half Swedish descent. His mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Russia, Germany, Poland, and Lithuania). Worked with stunt coordinator Nick Powell in two movies both premiering in 2006: Tristan + Isolde (2006) and Annapolis (2006). Close friends with Tobey Maguire . He also used to "babysit" Tobey's daughter on the set of Spider-Man 3 (2007). His grandmother, Mitzie Verne, is an artist. Is friends with Busy Philipps , who he met on the set of Freaks and Geeks (1999). Franco told interviewer Terry Gross that when he was in junior high school, he was arrested for shoplifting cologne from a department store and reselling it with his friends at the school.

He noted to Gross the irony that, in 2008, he shot an advertising campaign in which he became the face of Gucci cologne. While a guest on her NPR program "Fresh Air", Franco told interviewer Terry Gross that when he went back to UCLA to finish his undergraduate degree in creative writing, he was worried that his classmates and professors might think of him as "sliding by" because of his acting career, so he took a lot of extra courses to make sure they knew he was serious. He told Gross that the cap on the number of units that a student is allowed to take in a quarter was 19, but in his last quarter he took 62 units - which as far as he knows is a record for a single student. Franco's creative writing professors have included such major figures as Amy Hempel, Mona Simpson , Jonathan Lethem , Gary Shteyngart and Michael Cunningham . Chosen by Premiere magazine as one of the "The 40 Most Handsome Hollywood Men"(#1)[2009]. Mother Betsy Franco also played his character's mother on General Hospital (1963).

He completed his private pilot's license to prepare for his role in 2006's Flyboys (2006). Is a talented mathematician. He interned at Lockheed Martin, the American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company. Has directed short films for two R.E.M. songs, "Blue" and "That Someone Is You" from their 2011 album, "Collapse Into Now". Franco volunteers at the charity Art of Elysium in Los Angeles, helping kids with serious medical conditions. In January 2011, he was honoured for his work at the hospital, receiving the Spirit of Elysium accolade. After seeing Franco's turn as James Dean , Robert De Niro personally chose him to play his drug-addicted son in the 2002 movie City by the Sea (2002). He did eight months of boxing training for Annapolis (2006). His production company is Rabbit Bandini Productions, which he runs with friend and producer Vince Jolivette . In 2009, Salon.com named Franco the "Sexiest Man Living.".

May perhaps be one of the most academically accomplished actors (an "extreme scholar") in Hollywood history: besides his BFA in English from UCLA, he has two MFA degrees - both in writing - from Columbia and Brooklyn College, and a third MFA, in film, from New York University. He is continuing further degree studies while also teaching a graduate class that takes students through the process of making a feature-length film. (2011). His favorite film is My Own Private Idaho (1991). His debut book of poetry is due to be released in April 2014 [December 17, 2012]. Admitted to his younger brother, Dave Franco , that he hadn't seen a single episode of Dave's episodes in the TV series, Scrubs (2001). Was presented the 2,492nd Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame accompanied by his mother Betsy Franco , brother Dave Franco , Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) director Sam Raimi and This Is the End (2013) co-star Seth Rogen (March 7, 2013).

Filming the action comedy Pineapple Express (2008). [March 2007] Has a movie due in December called The Company (2003), co-starring Neve Campbell . He is filming Spider-Man 2 (2004). [May 2003] New York, NY, USA: His educational achievements as a "prolific academic" are celebrated in a half-page ad in The New York Times paid for by his alma mater, UCLA, with the tagline: 'Some A-Listers Actually Get A's.' [March 2013] Enrolled in NYU's MFA program for creative writing in Tisch school of the arts [2008] In the Graduate Film program at NYU and the Graduate Program for Fiction Writing at Columbia. [2009] On his father's side, he is the grandson of Daniel Franco, Jr. and Marjorie J. (Peterson) Franco, who was a published author of young adult books. On his mother's side, he is the grandson of Daniel Verne (born Daniel S. Verovitz) and Marjorie "Mitzie" Levine.

One of James's maternal great-grandfathers, Emanuel "Manuel" V. Levine, was a prominent judge in Cleveland. One of a handful of celebrities passing through Los Angeles International Airport (1 November 2013) when a gunman opened fire killing a TSA official. Franco was stuck on board a grounded plane during the rampage. As of 2014, has appeared in two films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Milk (2008) and 127 Hours (2010). Friends with Mila Kunis . They have acted in 4 films together: Third Person (2013), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), Date Night (2010), and The Color of Time (2012). In 2015, James Franco will star in both Queen of the Desert (2015) and Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015), which are directed by Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders , who were both key figures in the New German Cinema film movement in the 1970s. His favorite film of 2015 was Mustang (2015).

[Indiewiere, Nov.19 2015]. In October 2015, James Franco had a Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony traditionally celebrated at age 13. A rabbi, of the Reform Jewish denomination, presided over the ceremony, in which Franco, wearing a traditional prayer shawl and yarmulke, read from the Torah in Hebrew. Franco was 37 at the time of his Bar Mitzvah; though they are most often celebrated at 13, a Bar Mitzvah may be observed any time after 13, as well. The Bar Mitzvah was orchestrated by Franco's friend, Seth Rogen , as a fundraiser for Rogen's Alzheimer's research charity, "Hilarity for Charity". Originally, James Franco was set to play the role of "Arthur" in Inception (2010); however, due to scheduling conflicts, James was forced to drop out of the film and the director of the film, Christopher Nolan , later gave the role to Joseph Gordon-Levitt . Though they often collaborate with the same actors, producers, and directors respectively, he has never been in a film with his brother Dave Franco.

Personal Quotes (23) [About painting] "I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself." [About finding time to relax] "Never. It's an impossibility. I don't even like to sleep. I feel as if there's too much to do." [About what he looks for in a girl] "Just someone I can relate to artistically and who can also be understanding and supportive of the demands of my lifestyle." When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces. I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, "I forgot something." Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

You know, directors kind of want different things. Some of them think that if they just are always talking to you and keeping your spirits up and everything that it helps you, and then some leave you alone and give you your space. [on playing gay characters] - It's funny because the way that kind of stuff is talked about on blogs is so black-and-white. It's all cut-and-dry identity politics. 'Is he straight or is he gay?' Or, 'This is your third gay movie - come out already!' And all based on, gay or straight, based on the idea that your object of affection decides your sexuality. There are lots of other reasons to be interested in gay characters than wanting myself to go out and have sex with guys. And there are also lots of other aspects about these characters that I'm interested in, in addition to their sexuality. So, in some ways it's coincidental, in other ways it's not. I mean, I've played a gay man who's living in the '60s and '70s, a gay man who we depicted in the '50s, and one being in the '20s.

And those were all periods when to be gay, at least being gay in public, was much more difficult. Part of what I'm interested in is how these people who were living anti-normative lifestyles contended with opposition. Or, you know what, maybe I'm just gay. [on using the videos trapped hiker Aron Ralston had made, in order to portray him in 127 Hours (2010)] He's not an actor giving a Shakespeare death soliloquy. He didn't want to lose himself because that would make it harder for his mother to watch. I knew that if I captured that, somehow, it would feel very authentic and powerful. [on accepting a position as a dramatics teacher at New York University] I've been very fortunate. I had to work hard but had opportunities to do everything that I wanted. That's one of the reasons I'm teaching. I'm trying to give back to other people. That's what I guess I want to do now - continue to be creative in a way that I can give back.

[Observation while making a documentary about the porn industry] When I was young, I got a video camera and my girlfriend and I decided to film ourselves and watched it back and said, 'Yeah, well, let's never watch that again'. Those performers in pornos, they are great performers. They're not just doing it. They're selling it to an audience. [2011, on being a troubled youth] I was arrested for a lot of petty crimes. It added up. I was a ward of the court and was put on probation. Finally, I'd had enough chances, but they gave me one final chance, and, fortunately, I didn't get into any trouble after that. Otherwise, I guess it could have been like Lindsay Lohan , when she's on probation and then she's accused of stealing a necklace, and it's a kind of small thing that becomes a big thing. It's like probation doesn't end. (2011, on his earliest jobs) When I was 13 or 14 my dad got me a job working the counter at a coffee shop. It sucked.

I read books when the place was empty and got let go when the assistant manager told the boss he'd found $2 in one of the aprons and said I was trying to steal. It turns out he had taken, like, $10,000. Later, when I wanted a car and my parents said they'd match whatever I could pay, I got a job driving carts at the Palo Alto Golf Course. I would read stuff like Naked Lunch in the cart, and they let me go when they caught me reading the sequel to A Separate Peace. Another summer I got a job with a friend on his father's construction crew, but we just got high every day...I was (also) given an internship at Lockheed Martin. But that experience showed me I never wanted to work in that environment. (2011, on the failure of Your Highness (2011)) I didn't write that movie. I was just doing my job. I think I'm fine in it. They knew there were problems with that movie a year ago. Just because it comes out after the Oscars, it's like "Oh, here's backlash".

Well, you have the year's best actress Oscar winner in it, so wouldn't that boost ticket sales? And people want to blame me for that? It's just ridiculous. There's this feeling about me like, "He's doing too many things. Let's get him". [2011, on hosting the Oscars] It's hard to talk about because it's like assigning blame - not a fun thing to do. For three or four weeks, we shot the promos and the little film that played in the opening. In the last week, when we really started focusing on the script for the live show and did a run-through, I said to the producer, "I don't know why you hired me, because you haven't given me anything. I just don't think this stuff's going to be good". After the show, everybody was so happy, and Bruce Cohen , the show's producer, hugged me and said, "Steven Spielberg just told me it was the best Oscars ever!" As far as having low energy or seeming as though I wasn't into it or was too cool for it, I thought, Okay, Anne Hathaway is going the enthusiastic route.

I've been trained as an actor to respond to circumstances, to the people I'm working with, and not to force anything. So I thought I would be the straight man and she could be the other, and that's how I was trying to do those lines. I felt kind of trapped in that material. I felt, 'This is not my boat. I'm just a passenger, but I'm going down and there's no way out'. (2011, on being a workaholic) I don't know, but the first short film I ever directed, years before I even went to film school at NYU, is about a boy who is introduced to the concept of his own mortality when his goldfish dies. He says to his parents, "I don't want to die," and though they say he shouldn't worry because there's plenty of time, they don't really comfort him. So he thinks, I have to do everything now. He gets a neighbor girl to marry him, gets a job, starts a family. Although I've changed and relaxed a bit, my behavior shows I've thought along those lines for quite a while.

[on the show Girls (2012)] I am fine watching a show about women dealing with men. I watched Steel Magnolias (1989) when I was in junior high school and I can get off on female bonding. Done right. It's more interesting than male bonding. I'm also aware that I may just be giving myself too much credit: for all I know, but for the grace of Judd Apatow , I could be just like those struggling male idiots I see on the show. [on the moment that his successful film career failed to meet his artistic expectations] I remember getting ready to do the third 'Spiderman', just thinking, I don't know if I can take it again. If I can take all the work that doesn't seem to have a payoff that is equal to the effort. As soon as I started branching out and pursuing my other interests I could say, 'OK... it's a place where more earnest kinds of exploration can happen.' There's this public persona that's 'James Franco' that's half my creation but half of it isn't. Half of it's what other people write about me or how they perceive me. [His art is] a way of using...

an image that other people have created and re-presenting it. [on his comedic Bar Mitzvah, as he received the Hasty Pudding 2009 Man of the Year award] ...actually really touching. I'm Jewish, my mother's Jewish, but I wasn't raised Jewish. I guess I wasn't a man until tonight. [on directing himself as an actor] I've done it many times before - it's something I've grown used to. As a director you're viewing everything from above or the outside. You just want to make sure all the pieces are working well together. I've acted in enough films that I can feel it from the inside, like okay, this is right... I actually don't like to do it. I enjoy directing other actors more. I enjoy the collaboration between directors and actors so much that - if I can get away with not being in a movie that I'm directing - I will. [on Marlon Brando ] Brando's performances revolutionized American acting precisely because he didn't seem to be "performing," in the sense that he wasn't putting something on as much as he was being.

Off-screen he defied the studio system's control over his image, allowing his weight to fluctuate, choosing roles that were considered beneath him and turning down the Oscar for best actor in 1973. These were acts of rebellion against an industry that practically forces an actor to identify with his persona while at the same time repeatedly wresting it from him. [on 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), one of his 5 favourite films] Again, a very simple approach, but there's so much power in that film. You're not quite sure what's happening from the beginning, but you're just kind of thrown into it. All you know is that these women have this mysterious meeting, and it takes you from there. The film gives you a great sense of what it was really like to live in Romania in the 1980s.[2009] Salary (3)

Question: What city does Spiderman spend his spare time protecting?
Answer: New York City