


Jack Kirby, meanwhile, had an unpublished character on which he had collaborated with Joe Simon in the 1950s, in which an orphaned boy living with an old couple finds a magic ring that granted him superhuman powers. Lee "wanted the character to be a very human guy, someone who makes mistakes, who worries, who gets acne, has trouble with his girlfriend, things like that". : 1 Lee cited pulp magazine crime fighter the Spider as an influence, : 130 and stated that he was further inspired by seeing a spider climb up a wall-adding in his autobiography that he has told that story so often he has become unsure of whether or not this is true. Following a surge in teenage demand for comic books, Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee wanted to create a character with whom teens could identify. Peter Parker first premiered as a comic book character in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962). Holland's portrayal of Parker has earned the actor a number of accolades. This was, retroactively, the introduction of a young Parker as confirmed in 2017 by Holland, producer Kevin Feige, and Jon Watts, director of the Spider-Man films. In Iron Man 2 (2010), director Jon Favreau's son Max appears as a child wearing an Iron Man mask whom Iron Man saves from a drone.
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He also made a brief cameo appearance in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) and will appear in the upcoming film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) as well as in an upcoming prequel animated series titled Spider-Man: Freshman Year.

Holland's version of the character is the successor to the Peter Parker played by Tobey Maguire in the Sam Raimi trilogy (2002–2007) and the Peter Parker of The Amazing Spider-Man duology (2012–2014) played by Andrew Garfield.Īs of 2021, the character is one of the central figures of the MCU, having appeared in five films as well as in the animated series What If.? (2021), in which he is voiced by Hudson Thames. He is later recruited by Tony Stark who goes on to mentor him and joins the Avengers. Parker is depicted as a high school student at Midtown School of Science and Technology who received spider-like abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider and since then has secretly operated as a vigilante. Peter Parker is a fictional character primarily portrayed by Tom Holland in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise-based on the character of the same name created by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko for Marvel Comics-commonly known by his alias, Spider-Man. Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States
