Steve Ditko

Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. He can't keep up at college, pay his rent or seem to make amends with his estranged best friend Harry. Mary Jane is more skeptical than ever of Peter. One day Peter's idol, the renowned scientist Otto Octavius, resurfaces after a failed science experiment. Peter begins to notice he's losing some of his powers and wonders at the stress in his personal life. He realizes...

Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner.

Tells the story of Peter Parker, a smart teenager whose exposure to a radioactive spider gives him incredible powers, leading him to adopt the name Spider-man, and how he learns a very difficult lesson about responsibility.

Peter Parker receives a nasty bits from an irradiated spider and with miraculous, arachnid-like powers, his death defying heroism wins him admiration from those in need. As Peter heads off to college at Empire State University, he begins to gain the trust of new friends, M.J. and Harry, while the police call him a vigilante. But he meets the challenge by exercising his wonderful powers for the good of all.

A critical retrospective of the work of Spider-Man's reclusive co-creator traces the progression of his spatial designs from the hallucinatory landscapes of Dr. Strange to the plebeian earthiness of The Amazing Spider Man, in an account that covers such topics as his early work for Marvel and his creation of Mr. A.

"Peter Parker is on top of the world when his date, Mary Jane Watson, is the hit of the Midtown High Fall Formal ... But he's brought down to earth with a resounding thud when the Green Goblin threatens to beat Hammerhead and Tombstone at their own criminal game. When Dr. Octavius joins the bastion of super villains as the megalomaniacal Dr. Octopus, Spidey's really got his work cut out for him."--Container.

Peter Parker is bitten by a radio-active spider and turns into a superhero with superpowers.

When being Spider-Man becomes too much for Peter Parker to handle, he makes a drastic decision to hang up his Spider-Man suit and stop being a crime-fighter. But a new enemy has arisen. A brilliant scientist has been accidentally transformed into a raging monster known as Doc Ock and kidnaps Mary Jane.