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When Spiderman first appeared in the early sixties, adolescents in superhero comic books were typically relegated to the role of sidekick to the character. The Spiderman series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, an adolescent high-school pupil and individual behind Spiderman's key identity to whose "personal-fixations with rejection, deficiency, and solitariness" youthful readers could link.[1] Unlike previous teen characters such as for instance Bucky and Robin, Spiderman failed to profit from being the protege of any grownup superhero mentors like Captain America and Batman, and thus had to discover for himself that "with great energy there must also come great duty"--a point contained in a text box in the closing panel of the first Spiderman story, but afterwards retroactively related to his guardian, the overdue Granddad Dan.
Marvel has featured Spiderman in several comic book series, the very first and longest-enduring that is titled The Incredible Spiderman. Over the years, the Peter Parker character has developed from bashful, nerdy high-school pupil to troubled but outgoing college student, to married high-school instructor to, in the late two thousands, one independent photographer, his most typical grownup role. In the 2010s, he joins the Avengers and the Great Four, Marvel's main superhero groups. In current story-lines, Chris Parker expires while his mind is in the torso of his enemy Physician Octopus; Doctor
