Spider-Man | |
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![]() Spider-Man (Ultimate Marvel) as appeared in Ultimate Spider-Man comic book series. Character concept art by Mark Bagley. | |
Publication information | |
First appearance | Ultimate Spider-Man #1 (September 2000) |
Created by | Brian Michael Bendis Mark Bagley |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Peter Benjamin Parker |
Place of origin | Ultimate Marvel (Earth-1610) |
Team affiliations | Daily Bugle Ultimates |
Partnerships | Mary Jane Watson Kitty Pryde |
Notable aliases | Webhead, Wall-crawler, Spidey, Spider-Boy, Punk in a Onesie |
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Spider-Man (Peter Parker) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a modernized, alternate universe counterpart of Spider-Man who is in his youth, a superhero first created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1962. The Ultimate version of the character originated in Ultimate Marvel, a line of comic books created in 2000 that is set in a parallel universe with a narrative continuity separate and independent from the main continuity of Marvel Comics stories that began in the 1960s.
Ultimate Spider-Man, the first and flagship title of the Ultimate line, was created by the writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mark Bagley, and debuted in September 2000, which featured the first appearance of the Ultimate version of the character. Based on the original Spider-Man who debuted in 1962, he was bitten by a genetically-mutated spider, which gave him superhuman spider-like abilities which led him to become the superhero Spider-Man, and fight crime after the tragedy of his late Uncle Ben. The biggest difference is that this version of Parker is killed at the age of 16, being Spider-Man for a span of almost a year before being replaced by the 13-year-old Miles Morales. However following the Secret Wars storyline, Miles and his family were retconned into the history of the prime universe and Peter who had been resurrected had resumed his superhero role. To differentiate him from other incarnations, Peter Parker from this universe is commonly dubbed Ultimate Spider-Man.