The Spider-Man character was created by writer/editor Stan Lee and writer/artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy no. 15 (August 1962). Lee and Ditko conceived the character as an orphan being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. As a teenager he had to deal with the normal struggles of adolescence in addition to those of a costumed crime fighter until a fateful spider bite that gave Peter Parker his powers

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