It is very difficult in today’s commercialized world not to be familiar with Spider-Man. And it doesn’t matter whether you have young school age children, you’re in college or like me… you’re as “old as dirt”, we have all been exposed to this most unlikeliest of all “Super Heroes”.
But if he is not a great super hero then why has his popularity grown ever since he was first introduced back in 1962? It seems as though we just can’t get enough of him. Don’t get me wrong, I am also a great fan of his, but Spider-Man (real name: Peter Parker) is not your typical super hero. I would even go so far as to say that he even challenges the definition of what a super hero really is.
Spider-Man does possess “special powers” – like being able to cling to any surface, “spider-quick” reflexes that operate up to 40 times faster than those of any normal person and an uncanny spider-sense, a tingling sensation in the back of his neck, which warns him of danger. But he also is very human.
What other super hero do you know that talks to himself, misses appointments, catches the flu – when he has to fight, forgets to put film in his camera (Peter is a photographer by trade) and he even has trouble paying his rent. And I