When Steve Ditch—the inker, penciller, and writer—sketched Spider-Man, he envisioned him to be an American superhero. In the issue of Amazing Fantasy #15, a comic strip series released in August 1962, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced the Amazing SpiderMan to the world.
The character they conceived—Peter Parker, a shy, reticent, teenage boy—acquires superhuman powers as the result of a scientific accident, the bite of a radioactive spider. Upon obtaining these new powers, Peter Parker initially seeks fame and celebrity. But the murder of his guardian, Uncle Ben, provides the impetus to take up crime fighting. Inspired by a sense of duty to keep the city safe, he dons the Spider-Man costume and fights criminals.
Spider-Man, the imagined superhuman steeped in the American culture of the 1960s with an animistic design, took the American comic world by storm. The comic strip character captured the imagination of millions of American teenagers and became an instant success.
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