Editors Note
´Alright let's do this One last time. My name is Peter Parker (Yes THAT Peter Parker) and for the last twenty-five years, I have been investigating the hero or vigilante if you like known only as Spider-Man or as recently revealed Herman Schultz.
Spider-Man was a renowned hero, who had saved countless lives and fought numerous threats that threatened not only New York City but sometimes even the whole world. Throughout his extensive career, he has proved to be a popular hero with law enforcers and civilians alike, with a combination of inspired leadership, unrivaled courage, and quick thinking that allowed him to turn many near defeats into glorious victories. It is no wonder that he gained a number of followers who try to emulate him even today.
The truth, as ever, is always far more complex than its fiction. Those who knew him personally prior to his acquisition of superpowers and the subsequent meteoric rise to fame generally believed him to be a boorish and unpleasant individual, utterly self-absorbed and arrogant to the extreme. The disparity between his public image of the noble hero and Herman Schultz who once used a lady as a human shield has often confused me.
His memoirs, 'Spider-Man: Web of Life', was published two years ago. They are infamously inaccurate as it was written by a ghost-writer and truth falsified to fit the image of the unstoppable hero making it seem that the real story will never be told. Fortunately, I recently learned that Herman had a habit of writing down his life in a journal of sorts.
Most of this journal appears to be written as a stream of consciousness, and often its tone makes it feel like a confession as much as memoirs. True to Hermans's self-centered nature the journal tends to focus solely on his own thoughts, emotions, and actions. Where necessary I have attached extracts from other works to help explain the big picture of the circumstances around his life.
I hope, dear Reader, that this manuscript will illuminate you as to the true thoughts and feelings of
New York's champion, but above all we hope that you merely find it interesting.
Doctor Peter Benjamin Parker