Spider-Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

He is created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. In his origin story, he gets spider-related abilities from a bite from a radioactive spider; these include clinging to surfaces, superhuman strength and agility, and detecting danger with his "spider-sense." He also builds wrist-mounted "web-shooter" devices that shoot artificial spider webs of his own design.