100 Facts about Spiderman

Spider-Man is a superhero beloved by the young and old

so we thought we'd list 100 facts you didn't know about old

Peter Parker. Spider-Man first appeared in Amazing Fantasy No. 15, which was released August 10, 1962

He was created by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee. Ironically, the character was first attempted by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee

but it was felt that the direction the character was going in just wasn't right, so they started over with Steve Ditko

Jack Kirby did, however, pencil the cover to Amazing Fantasy 15, which Ditko inked

You can see this is true by the barrel chest that Spidey has and the face of the villain the webhead is carrying

If that's not a Kirby face, I don't know what is. Lee wanted to make Spider-Man a teenager

because he was sick of teen sidekicks. Ditko took this start of an idea and ran with it

basing the character largely on himself, both visually and character-wise. Ditko was an introvert like Peter, who also enjoyed science

Marvel publisher Martin Goodman and Stan Lee's cousin-in-law didn't want to publish Spider-Man because he

thought that a teenage superhero wouldn't work. superheroes are adults, duh, and that furthermore, spiders are spooky

Nobody likes spiders. The numbers for Amazing Fantasy XV came back, and turns out, Martin Goodman was dead wrong

Spider-Man had sold very, very well. So, they greenlit a solo book starring the character, Amazing from Amazing Fantasy

and Spider-Man, because it starred, well, Spider-Man. Hitco was obviously brought back to the series as the penciler and co-writer because, well

he was Peter Parker, and his idiosyncratic artwork definitely is the reason the character succeeded

The new ongoing book fleshed out Peter's supporting cast and gave him a rich tapestry of villains to combat

One of the key new additions was our boy J. Jonah Jamerson, which, if you're paying attention

was actually based on Stan Lee. So much so, in fact, that Stan Lee always said that if it was a live-action film

he should play the part. Ditko, however, was much less of a social butterfly

There are only four or five photographs of him known to exist. Spider-Man's canonical address is 20 Ingram Street, Forest Hills Gardens, New York

Weirdly enough, at one point in time, this address was occupied by a family with the real last name Parker

To make things even stranger, the next house over, 19 Ingram Street

was occupied by a family with the surname Osborne, like the longtime rival of Spider-Man

The initial run of Amazing Spider-Man lasted roughly four years, or 38 issues, if you're being precise

Midway through the run, Lee and Ditko had a disagreement over the credit of the book

Ditko felt that he should receive co-writer credit, because he was plotting and writing the rough first

pass of all the dialogue. Lee felt differently. And as such, they settled on the credit of co-plotter

which, you know, is better than nothing. However, this wasn't quite enough

as Ditko and Lee were dramatically opposed on the identity of who should be the Green Goblin

Ditko had been setting the character up to be a random person that Peter was not connected to in any way

Lee wanted a personal connection for the villain, someone in Peter's inner circle

Ultimately, the two men did not speak during the final handful of issues

Ditko would finally turn in his fully completed pages and collect his payment in exchange for letting Lee

do the final dialogue polish. After Ditko quit the book, there was some concern about continuing the character

because his art style was so iconic and closely associated with the character

Ultimately, the romance comic artist, John Armita Sr., was given the unenviable task of continuing Spider However this might actually have been a blessing in disguise because Romita beautiful characters and clean artwork helped to propel Spider

to new heights. In the 1970s, Spider-Man made his live-action debut in a live-action TV show

starring the sound of music child actor Nicholas Hammond. The show ran from 1977 to 1979 with a

total of 18 episodes and a pilot TV movie being produced. The show does not feature any of Spidey's

stable of iconic villains, primarily due to budget concerns. Instead, the show opts to have him fight low-level criminal masterminds and crooks of the week

After the show's cancellation, the pilot and two conjoining pairs of episodes were edited

into feature, lengthier presentations, and then released as VHS content. Plans for a revival were happening in 1984, when CBS attempted to bring Spider-Man and

their beloved Incredible Hulk together. The plot would have seen Spider-Man, played by Hammond, of course, going up against a

criminal organization and being forced to team up with Bill Bixby's David Banner

Lou Ferrigno was also going to return to the role of the Hulk. To make things even cooler, Spider-Man was going to appear

in his symbiotic black costume for the story. In 2002, Nicholas Hammond gave an interview stating that the TV

film did not come together because Lou Ferrigno was shooting Hercules 2 at the time

Simultaneously, Marvel struck a licensing deal with the Japanese production company Toei, who produced their own live-action

Spider-Man TV show. It stars Shinji Toto as Takuya Yamashiro, a motorcyclist

by day and by night, a crusader embedded with the ability of an ancient alien warrior from

a planet named Spider. The series ran for 41 episodes in a movie

Needless to say, this all propelled Spider-Man to be one of the most financially successful

characters of all time. In 2014, Spider-Man generated $1.4 billion alone. In 1987, Marvel decided to have Peter Parker and his iconic girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson

tie the knot. As a publicity stunt, they hired actors to play them and held a ceremony at Shea Stadium

In the 90s, Spider-Man took to new levels of success, thanks to the artist Todd McFarlane reinventing the character

McFarlane's Adjectiveless No. 1 is one of the most high-selling comics of all time

The 90s were a weird time for comics. You had speculators coming from outside of comics and inflating the market

and you also had Michael Jackson attempting to buy Marvel Comics so he could set up a film deal where he played Peter Parker

Yeah, weird, right? There have been a total of eight animated Spider-Man shows

the best of which is obviously a 90s one, because Spider-Man was drawn to look like Nicholas Hammond

The show's direct sequel, Spider-Man Unlimited, was also great, but doesn't get that much love from fans

Think Batman Beyond, but on an alien world. Yeah, pretty cool. Spider-Man the movie, starring Tobey Maguire and directed by Sam Raimi

debuted May 3rd, 2002. The original trailer for the film features Spider-Man pinning a helicopter

to a web in between Twin Towers. None of this footage was kept in the finished film

Spider-Man was a smash success, becoming one of the highest grossing films of the year

and indeed all time. It also completely kicked down the door on the superhero genre

Due to the success of Spider-Man and the X-Men, virtually a flood of other adaptations materialized

ultimately leading to the MCU. Spider-Man 2 was one of the genre's standouts

being heralded as a massive achievement in superhero storytelling. Spider-Man 3? Less so

Sony brass was insistent that Raimi use the Marvel villain Venom in order to appeal to a larger base of fans who loved the character Raimi not one of those fans He wanted to have a dual team of Sandman and the Vulture The finished film is an amalgam of these two ideas Seeing Sandman Venom and Green Goblin Jr

All teaming up to fight Spider-Man, or, oh, let's be honest, no one remembers this movie except for the dancing

Yeah, that's the one. Spider-Man 4 with Raimi and Maguire was started after the disappointment that was Spider-Man 3

This time, Spidey would have gone up against the Vulture in a mono-oberto fight

And supposedly, Raimi had approached one John Malkovich to play the role of ye olde Adrian Toons

However, as we all know, that didn't happen. In 2012, Spider-Man was rebooted as a major live-action film franchise

This time, it would star Andrew Garfield, fresh off the success of The Social Network

The film would be a clean slate, opting to jettison all of the Raimi-era work and retell the origin

The film was originally intended to focus on the backstory of Peter's parents being spies

But upon seeing the finished film, Sony insisted on reshoots in order to focus on a more traditional Spider-Man story

And yet, after redoing much of the movie, they left in the fact that Peter uses Bing

The film, despite its montage of Peter Parker ollieing over progressively larger things and wearing a hoodie with thumb holes, was a success

Because people have no taste. The sequel rushed into production, and it came out, and it was bad, and it tanked the franchise

Around this time, Spider-Man also starred in one of the most expensive musicals of all time

Spider-Man colon Turn Off the Dark. The play was directed by Julie Taymor, one of the most iconic Broadway theater directors ever

She directed Lion King, Titus Andronicus, and Greenberg, just to name a few

The music for Turn Off the Dark was created by Bono and The Edge. Many actors were hurt during the high-flying web-slinging sequences

In fact, one Spider-Man stunt double, Kevin Alvin, broke both his wrists attempting to stop himself when falling

The show was retooled twice and cost $79 million. And it's considered one of the biggest failures

in Broadway history. And here's where we get to the part we've all been waiting for

Sony cut a deal with Marvel to let him be used in the MCU

Tom Holland was cast as Spider-Man at the age of 19. While he was auditioning, he was pursuing the part

against his fellow thespians Asa Butterfield, Nat Wolfe, Timothee Chalamet, and Liam James

When Tom Holland auditioned for the role of Spider-Man, he utilized some of his gymnastics training

by somersaulting into the frame, a tactic that he apparently utilized for his in-person auditions as well

Tom Holland auditioned a total of eight times. Robert Downey Jr. was supposedly instrumental

in casting Tom, telling the producers that he was indeed right for the role

Supposedly, Tom didn't find out that he had the role by a traditional offer. He had to learn about this massive status quo shift

in his life through Marvel's Instagram page. Holland signed a six-film contract

three MCU movies, and three Spider-Man solo albums. Tom Holland has since admitted that he owned over 20 Spider-Man cosplays growing up

The MCU Spider-Man suit is supposed to harken back to Ditko's early designs

However, the true innovation of the costume is the moving eyes on the mask

thus allowing it to be more expressive and mimic the suit from the comics more accurately

Holland made his first on-screen appearance as Spidey during Captain America Civil War

Surprisingly his character and Ant weren added until very late in the scripting phase with the rights issues Holland first solo outing with the character was in Spider Homecoming See what they did there The name has an extra metatextual commentary to it because he home at Marvel because Marvel had

to sell the rights in the 90s, and now he's back with them, because it's, he's home

He's home. When preparing for the role, Holland attended a high school in America

to get a feel for what it was really like. He used his acting coach's name as his alias

At one point, he questioned why he was there by another student. He broke character and admitted that he was going to be playing Spider-Man

and the student in question did not believe him. Prior to shooting the film, the whole cast got together to watch a John Hughes movie marathon

You know, because Homecoming was a movie focused on high school Peter Parker

unlike the other films that all start with Peter Parker in high school

The film is loosely based on Brian Bendis and David LaFontaine's Ultimate Spider-Man run

where Tony Stark takes a mentor role in Peter's life. The film features Batman himself, Michael Keaton, in the role of the Vulture

Sorry, John Malkovich. The film also features Breaking Bad's this guy. Remember him

This dude from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul? No? No, you don't

Oh, his name is Michael Mando. And he plays Matt Gargan, everyone's favorite scorpion

In the comics, Matt Gargan was Venom for a period of time. Peter Moans are also from Forest Hills Queens

which is why this song appears in the movie. Flash Thompson is in this film as Peter Parker's bully

No, he's not the jock version from the older films. He's just a rich kid who's really mean

In the comics, Flash enlists in the military, is wounded, and is then given an experimental version of the Venom symbi

which he then uses as a one-man war on whoever the U.S. government points him at

Fascist alien warrior dude bro delight? Anyone? Anyone? The voice inside Spider-Man's suit is played by Jennifer Connelly, the wife in real life of Paul Bettany

You know, the dude who plays Vision and Jarvis. When Spider-Man takes a very specific phone call in the film

If you look over the building behind him, you'll see graffiti that reads Bagley

which is obviously named after the one and only Mark Bagley. He's drawn more shoes of Spider-Man than anyone else in history

Tom Holland has been so notorious for leaking facts about Marvel films

that they've basically just stopped telling him things. During Avengers Infinity War, Tom Holland's death scene was not scripted to take so much time

However, on the day, the directors, or so brothers, felt that he was the heart of the MCU

and that he should be given a little bit more of that sweet, sweet camera time

Holland has said that the shooting of these scenes were very difficult for him because Chris Pratt is really funny and consistently makes jokes

In Spider-Man Far From Home, the film is a play on the classic high school road trip films

However, the end product is slightly befuddling. Why is the movie about Spider-Man being able to control an army of orbital drones

During both 2018 and 2019 New York Comic Con, the acclaimed off-Broadway playwright and director, Lenny Schwartz, staged a play entitled

Ditko, focusing on the young life of the reclusive artist, the creation of Spider-Man

and his devotion to the ideas of Ayn Rand. Next up for Spidey, unfortunately

Sony and Marvel had a breakdown in terms of their contract negotiations, and it looked like

Tom Holland would no longer be in the MCU. But thanks to a slightly inebriated phone call from

one Tom Holland, everything worked out fine. Now, Sony and Marvel have signed a two-picture deal

one more MCU appearance, and one more solo Spidey film, which will be counted in the MCU

Spidey's back in the MCU for now