In around 10 days the new Spider-Man movie, Far from Home, which will be the conclusion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3, will run in cinemas and so i thouht to make a small series of articles with a few interesting facts about Spider-Man, partly also about Spider-Man's Homecoming version, so Tom Holland, but also earlier Spider-Mans and maybe a few things from the comics.
The idea for the superhero Spider-Man came to Stan Lee when he saw a spider crawling up a wall. No kidding.
Have you ever wondered why Spider-Man is written in hyphen?
That's up to DC'S Superman. He was really successful in the comic world at that time and that's why the creators decided to write Spider-Man with a hyphen so that no one would think the title/name had anything to do with Superman.
The story of Spider-Man's parents has been teased to us from time to time, but never really told about it in the movies. Officially in the comics Peter Parker's parents were original CIA agents who later worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. and when they were pregnant with Peter they tried to save Wolverine.
In the then so-called golden comic age, it was typical for superheroes to get sidekicks. That means, whenever a teenager becomes a superhero, he is first of all a sidekick of an adult superhero like for example Robin from Batman. Spider-Man was the first superhero, no matter if it was DC or Marvel or another publisher, who as the main comic superhero wasn't a sidekick and did his own thing when he was a teenager.
Spider-Man is really popular but also Peter Parker. He is a real swarm of women. He was always associated with Mary Jane Watson or Gwen Stacy but in the comics he was first with Betty Brant and then with Liz Allen together. First in college he got to know the other two and then he has a relation with Felicia Hardy alias Black Cat and a lot of other women like Rogue from the X-Men or Emma Frost. A real womanizer this Spider is!
Spider-Man got his first own series in 1977. Outside of the USA it was shown as a feature film. The then Cannon Films, who really ruined their last Superman film, owned the rights for Spider-Man for 225,000 US Dollars. They wanted to make a Spider-Man movie with Tom Cruise, in the 80s. But due to lack of money it didn't work out. Yes, Tom Cruise was supposed to play Spider-Man and later even Iron Man. Thanks God that this didn't happen!
Do you know Teresa Parker? I only know her fleetingly from the comics. Teresa Parker is Peter Parker's sister. That's right, Spider-Man, or better said Peter has a younger sister. She was lost and grow up separate from him and he first met her when she worked for the CIA respectively for S.H.I.E.L.D.
The multiverse, which is now being introduced in the MCU and which we got to see in Sony's Spider-Verses, has existed in comics for much longer. There in the stories we got to know all kinds of versions of Spider-Man from the different universes and even Spider-Man from the future with the title 2099 at the end. But besides that these different versions were also allowed to meet and to fight and defeat the evil.
Who knows, maybe we will see something like this where Sony's plans for Spider-Man will flow into the MCU?
Part 2 
