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The past decade has brought blockbuster movies and crazy stories from the giant franchise that is Marvel. Most people around the world have heard of the company, but where did their company originate, and who is responsible for their massive success? Marvel Comics, more commonly known to the public as Marvel, originates in New York City, New York. Here, great stories, ideologies, and characters are born. Characters that may seem impossible to relate become easily identifiable to readers new and old since 1944. New York, located in the northeastern part of the United States and known as the Empire State, is home to the revered comic book creator Stan Lee who created many beloved and iconic superheroes and giving them superhuman abilities, while …show more content…

Lee was in the lowest point of his comic book career and was about to change careers. He decided to give it one last go by writing two different superhero stories: The Fantastic Four and The Amazing Spider-Man. These two stories defied the superhero graphic at the time with the Fantastic Four being a family turned superhero team and Spider-Man being the first teen superhero that was not a sidekick. Spider-Man put a grand effect on people as it put a realistic high school student struggling with the loss of his parental figure. The origin of Spider-Man is shown in Amazing Fantasy #15. Peter Parker was a “hard working honor student” constantly rejected being seen as a nerd. One day, however, Peter is bitten by a radioactive spider that somehow grants Peter the “proportionate speed, strength and agility of a spider” (Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man). After finding these powers, Peter later exploits them for himself as a wrestler winning money nightly. One night, a thief is running from a cop with Peter in front of him. Instead of stopping the thief, Peter arrogantly lets the thief go and tells the cop, “Sorry, pal! That’s your job!... From now on I just look out for number one -- that means -- me!” (Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man). Peter would later find out that the same thief he had let escape would kill his Uncle Ben. After he hands the thief to the police as Spider-Man, he tells himself, “If only I had stopped when I could have! But I didn’t -- and now -- Uncle Ben -- is dead” (Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man). In the story, Parker is an intelligent, socially awkward, and often bullied young teenager who has parental figures in his life. This allowed him to be more relatable and more interesting to readers who were accustomed with characters like Superman who is an alien on Earth, Wonder Woman who is a goddess, and Batman who is a

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