Spider-Man Origins
In Midtown High one member of the gang of kids says "We need one more guy for the dance, what about him" and suggests Peter Parker. A smug looking teen wearing a blue and white striped sweater called Flash Thompson scoffs "That bookworm wouldn't know what to do in a part, right puny Parker? Jaja." An attractive blonde girl knows as Liz Allan declares Peter Parker "Midtown High's only professional wallflower!"
Peter was not the most popular kid in High School, but his Uncle Ben and Aunt May thought he was a pretty special lad.
Ben always was joshing with him when it's time to get up in the morning.
"Gosh, Uncle Ben, you're worse than a room full of alarm clocks!" whines peter good-naturally.
As for peter's aunt May, she thought the sun rose and set upon her nephew.
"I cooked your favorite breakfast Petey... wheatcakes" she said.
"Don't fatten him up too much, dear! I can hardly out-wrestle him now!" comment Ben.
The faculty at the school is also impressed with Peter. The bald mustachioed chemistry teacher Mr. Warren tells Peter "Keep up the good work and you're sure to rate a scholarship when you graduate".
But Pete just can't receive any respect from his teen-aged peers. When he asks a young woman named Sally Avril for a date, she brushes him aside for the blonde "dreamboat", Flash Thompson. Flash swats Pete down, with a stinging "Get lost, bookworm." and when the shy teen tries to get other kids interested in attending an exhibition at the Science Hall, he is laughed at. "You stick to science! We'll take the chicks!" says one mocker, Seymour O'Reilly. Peter, in tears and vowing that someday they'll be sorry, goes to the Science Hall in Oscorp by himself. The title of the exhibition is "Experiments in Radio-Activity."
In Oscorp, they were in uproar because one of the spider genetically altered were missing.
The demonstration begins. The group stands around a machine of undetermined size which has what looks like two red balloons positioned about a foot apart. The idea is to demonstrate the control of radioactive rays as they leap between the two balloons. But a spider descends between the two balloons just as the radioactivity is unleashed. The spider absorbs a great amount of radioactivity. The dying arachnid, in shock bites the closed living thing.
"Ay! A spider bitted me. Huh, why does it burn so much? "Peter says while rubbing his hand.
Meanwhile the spider escapes with just a few second of life in his radioactive body.
As a result of the bite, Peter feels light-headed and flushed. Everything starts to seem blurry. "I feel a little weird, I-I need some air" as Peter stumble on his way out he hears an "ouch" from a female but is easily drowned for the man who led the demonstration, Dr. Eric Schwinner, observation of "It seem that the experiment unnerved young Parker". He note that the reason that he see blurry are his glasses, once he take them off his sight came back better than ever.
Peter wanders out into the street feeling as though his entire body is charged with some sort of energy. He is so absorbed in this sensation that he doesn't see the blue sedan barreling down on him. He leaps away at the last instant only to find himself able to stick, with his back and hands, to the wall of a nearby building. Marveled at this and also curious, he tries to climbs the building and realizes that the only parts of his body that he can't stick are his feet. Taking off his shoes and tying them over his neck, he is able to stick his feet too. He climbs to the top of the building, then, onto the roof, where he accidently crushes a steel pipe as though it were paper. He quickly realizes that he has acquired all of the abilities of a spider proportional to his size.
He returns to the street, trying to think of what to do with this unbelievable ability which fate has given him.
Only minutes later, he stumbles upon a wrestling exhibition. The sign says "$1000 to the man who can stay in the ring three minutes with Crusher Hogan" and Peter decides this is a good way to test his power. He runs home and puts on some old clothes, a white turtleneck sweater some pants and very slims shoes. Afraid that he may be a laughing stock, he disguises himself by covering his head with fishnet stocking. He come back just in time to see Crusher finish his last victim.
"I think I'm going to give it a try for those thousand dollars" Peter says aloud. Some people laugh at him but minutes later, he is in the ring, challenging Crusher Hogan. Crusher thinks he's got an easy mark but, when he moves in, his opponent leaps over his head. Peter is amazed at his agility and didn't see Crusher turn around and charge at him again. Like a sixth sense, Pete feels the danger and leaps again and with astonishing agility dodges Crusher attack.
"It works" Peter marvels while he dodges Crusher punches "I have the speed, agility…" The masked man picks Crusher up with ease and scales one of the poles that support the ring "and the strength of a huge spider!" Crusher, terrified by the whole thing, immediately concedes the match. "Okay, okay, you win, just let me down"
The crowd loves every minute of it. "I can't believe I'm filming this" says one; "Greatest act I've ever seen!" says another; "Sensational! Fantastic! And that mask gives him just the right touch of mystery", says people keep going. But one man, smoking a cigar and dressed in a purple suit and blue hat, thinks he has found just what he is looking for. As the masked Peter counts his winnings, the man introduces himself as a "TV producer and agent Maxie Schiffman" and tells the young man that "with your act I can make you a fortune! You have to keep the approach with the mask! It's going to be an amazing show!"
"Ok, thanks"
The next day at school, everyone was talking about him. Apparently someone had put a video of him on the internet with huge success and they were calling him spider-man.
At home, Pete decides to really spice up the showmanship, before calling his agent, by creating a spider costume. Despite all the tools in his room, Peter doesn't have the tools to make the costume, so he goes out to get them. Once again in the safety of his room, inspiration stuck him. After restless hours of work and tests, Peter finally has his invention, twin devices worn on his wrists which can shoot thin strands of special web fluid at high pressure. The web fluid is a shear-thinning liquid, virtually solid until a shearing force is applied to it, rendering it fluid. On contact with air, the long-chain polymer knits and forms an extremely tough, flexible fiber with extraordinary adhesive properties. The web fluid's adhesive quality diminishes with exposure to air. He called it "web-shooters", which make him exclaim "Only a science major could have created a device like this!"Then he crates cartridges which contains his formula with the especial webbings. He adds a belt to the costume that can hold up to 30 cartridges. He dons his red a blue costume with webs pattern and a spider in the chest and back and two white lenses for eyes, shoots webbing to the ceiling, climbs it, and uses his powers to stick up there. "Okay, world!" he says, "better hang onto your hat! Here comes the Spider-man!"
_*TTASM*_
The new mystery-man in the spider costume is presented on TV with live viewers. "In all my years in business I have seen acts that attract the flies … but never someone that eat them!" that got some laugh from the audience. "Without further ado, a big applause for the sensational, the spectacular, the amazing SPIDER-MAN"
He is captured in a spotlight, climbing down a wall. Even the cameraman is stunned. "I'm seein' it with my own eyes," he says, "and I still don't believe it!" The studio audience is overwhelmed, too, as Spidey snuffs a candle and dangles from the ceiling with his web. "What? You think light bother me? No, the truth is I'm just making sure that moth-man fails to appear at my act"
The TV presenter says "came on funny man. Show us what else you can do" with that two big wrestlers get in scene "you believe yourself a big fighter huh?"One says. "Yeah, wait till we catch you" the second says and he charge against the spider guy.
"What? Without any sort of weapon?" Spidey reply as he dodge an push them making them collide with each other "see, you at least need a rolled paper" the goons stand up and go after Spidey again, so he leaps an stand up side down from the roof "hey, what are you doing up there, I thought that was my thing"
The TV presenter laughs along the large crowd "You're the one who is upside down web-head"
Spidey look around "you know what, you are right. Wait, I'll be right there in a sec"
As Spiderman goes down, the TV producer, Maxie Schiffman, calls a halt to the act. "That's enough. Don't show 'em too much", he says, "Leave 'em beggin' for more!"
At the end of Spidey's TV special, at the chant of Spidey! Spidey! And comments like "Ohmygod, it's so fucking hot", Spiderman get down the stage and he is besieged by requests "Guys please. I would love to stay and chat but I have people to see, things to entangle"
"Mmm, who say something about chat" a woman lift his mask to uncover his mouth an kiss him
"Spidey! The mask! The mystery!" Maxie says.
"Max, you are not fun" Pete reply.
Someone ask for Spidey first autograph. Life magazine wants a picture spread. An agent wants to put him in the movies. A reporter wants an interview. The already jaded youth gives them the brush-off. "See my agent, boys!" he says, "I'm busy!" Then, still in costume, step out in the hallway, and a blonde-haired man runs past Spider-Man with a security guard, Baxter Bigelow, right on his heels. "Stop him!" the guard yells, "If he makes it to the elevator, he'll get away!" But Spider-Man makes no move to intercede and the fleeing man reaches the elevator and makes his escape. "Lucky that goon in a costume didn't stop me!" he gloats.
The cop berates Spider-Man for not tripping the crook up or holding him or something but the web-spinner thinks nothing of it. "From now on I just look out for number one" he says "that means... me!"
Back at home, Aunt May and Uncle Ben present Peter with a surprise present... the microscope he always wanted. Peter is overwhelmed with gratitude. "I'll see to it that they're always happy", he thinks of May and Ben, "but the rest of the world can go hang for all I care!"
"In the days that follow, the Spider-Man becomes the sensation of the nation." Pete continues his amazing act while he garners headlines in the nation's papers. "Who is the Spider-Man?" asks the Daily Voice. "Spider-Man plays to packed house!" says The Viewer. "Spider-Man wins showbiz award!"Says the Daily Chronicle. "Spider-Man slated for new TV series!"Says another paper.
But, then, one evening, Peter Parker comes home to discover a police car in front of his house. The policeman at the car gives him the bad news. "Your Uncle has been shot... murdered!"Says Officer Bernard O'Brien.
The officer tells Peter that a burglar was robbing the house when Uncle Ben surprised him. The burglar killed Ben and fled to the old Acme Warehouse at the waterfront where the police have him surrounded. "Your Aunt is next door, the neighbors are looking after her", the cop continues, but Peter isn't thinking of May. He knows the Acme Warehouse, knows that "a killer could hold off an army in that gloomy old place!" But it won't be so easy to hold off Spider-Man!
Next thing he know, he has change to Spidey and is swings across town to the warehouse whit a purpose. Inside the warehouse, the burglar, Carradine, knows that the police don't dare charge him. "All I gotta do is hold 'em off till the moon goes down, then I oughta be able to slip away in the dark!" he says. But a voice from above contradicts him. The burglar turns to see a costumed figure sticking to the wall ten feet above. Terrified, he turns to run, but Spider-Man leaps past him and blocks his way. He uses his webbing to gum up the burglar's gun, "then my fists will do the rest!" A strong right hand knocks the burglar unconscious.
A cap has concealed the burglar's face but Spidey's blow has removed it. The wall-crawler grabs his opponent by his jacket, lifts him up, and realizes, "It's the fugitive who ran past me! The one I didn't stop when I had the chance!"
Outside, the police decide they must risk charging the warehouse, but is not necessary. The burglar is delivered to them, hanging from a huge spider web.
A short distance away, a distraught Peter Parker with his mask removed, think "it's my fault! If only I had stopped him when I could have! But I didn't... and now Uncle Ben is dead..." So, the youth walks off into the night, remembering the words that his uncle Ben had say so many times "with great power there must also come... great responsibility"
_*TTASM*_
Agent Maxie Shiffman is waiting in Manhattan for his "client" to call while trying to find a way to pay back debts. Due to his classified ad requesting the presence of Spider-Man, Maxie is bombarded by all sorts of men in crazy costumes.
In Forest Hills, Queens, Peter Parker and Aunt May are watching the television program "It's Amazing" while they broadcast news of new superheroes, including the Fantastic Four and the Hulk. Peter thinks about what has happened in his life of late, about Spider-Man, the funeral of Uncle Ben and, him and Aunt May money problem. At school Liz Allen is sympathetic to Peter while Flash Thompson and his friends still treat him like dirt.
A man call to the door and tries to convince Aunt May that he is from a furniture store and that Uncle Ben had ordered her some furniture to be delivered as a surprise, but was unable to make the final payments on it before he passed away. The man tries to get May to pay the final installment on the furniture. Peter smells something fishy so, as Spiderman, follow the man hear him talking to another person, telling him the exact same thing that he said to May. He follows the man to a warehouse, discovers the total scope of their con scheme operations, and is forced into action after confronting the man in charge and trying to call the police. He learns even more about his abilities, using his spider-sense and agility to dodge several bullets, and he realizes that his sense of humor makes the situation less tense. He defeats the men and phones the police.
After visiting home to see Aunt May, he decides to "bite the bullet" and to try earning some money, see Maxie Shiffman, who sets him up with a show date on "It's Amazing."
Flash Thompson has tickets of the show, on which astronaut John Jameson originally was to appear. At the studio, Spidey meets J. Jonah Jameson, director of the Daily Bulge, for the first time. He is furious with him because "A freak like you, stilling the spotlight from my son, a true hero."
Then Maxie introduces Spidey to Supercharger, who he booked onto the show, alongside him, before Spidey agreed. The two, he says, will be stars. Spidey notices his spider-sense buzzing around Supercharger.
Ronnie Hilliard's father was a scientist who was interested in the steadily growing class of superhumans, and performed experiments into the mutagenic effects of superhuman powers. The two worked side-by-side on the project, but an explosion in their power generator during an experiment killed Ronnie's father. Ronnie discovered that the accident had granted him superhuman powers. He is a living battery of electrical energy, enabling him to absorb and release vast amounts of electricity. Enraged at his father's death, he blamed the existence of superhumans for leading his father to his doom, and vowed to use his own superhuman powers to make others turn against superhumans.
Now garbed as Supercharger, Ronnie offered his talents to Schiffman, and was accepted. Supercharger planned to use the event to show the public why they should fear superhumans, intending to murder the entire studio audience
That night, on "It's Amazing," Supercharger enters onto the stage and severely injures the co-host. He rants about his powers and tells his origin while threatening the audience with death. Spider-Man suddenly realizes he must do something, and during the villain's speech, he tries calling the police, but the line is dead. He decides to head for the Baxter Building, but he hears a woman scream and rushes into action, realizing he cannot leave the people, that he must stop Supercharger.
After being nearly defeated, he hears the crowd's cries, and concocts a plan to subdue Supercharger by hooking him up to the generators and "broadcasting" the power out of him. The crowd cheers Spidey, and afterwards, Maxie confess to the fact that he had some gambling debts and was desperate. Spidey tells him to give the profits from the show back. At the end, J. Jonah Jameson begins to hate the web-slinger because "he feels that he's better than normal people" and Spider-Man at last realizes what his dogma of power and responsibility means, and he knows at last that no matter what the circumstances, heroes find a way.