One conflict which creators Stan Lee(writer-editor) and Steve Ditko(writer artist) conceived into this true character of Peter Parker and which made him a comic superhero, is the double role he had to play in his life, the first and true identity of an ordinary normal but very shy school college teenager and the second the American superhero he became on wearing his masked costume of the Spidy better known as Spider-Man.
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| Steve Ditko - writer-artist |
The conflict in Peter Parker which many times shows and is never to be resolved is that while he got through the stages of his life from an orphaned baby, as his parents were killed in a plane crash as they were US government spies, to a child raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, to a teenage high school student self obsessed with rejection, inadequacy and loneliness. He was nerdy scientific student being frequently bullied by students of his age at Midtown High school. It was at this time of feeling rejected and bullied by mates, at age 15, that an experience happened to change his life forever. While attending a public science exibition, he was bitten on his hand by a spider that had been radioactively hit by a beam source, and this caused changes to his human body.
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| Stan Lee - writer-editor |
In contrast to his weak human body, he was empowered with an arachnid's ability of super strength, agility, ability to cling to most surfaces, shoot spider-webs from web-shooters and also gained, of a sixth sense which made him aware of any incoming danger.
This experience made him with emotionally strength, as over time it was conceived as a change of role into social life from a rejected, unaccepted and inadequate guy to a superhero to both teens and people of New York.
available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man[Accessed 2nd November 2012]
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