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 | | The first "Spider-Man" comics, by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby, had a modest, quotidian feel. |
 | | Peter is the opposite of Superman who, in the guise of Clark Kent, was a suave man playing a wimp (the quality that Christopher Reeve, with his ace timing, caught so well). |
 | | The simple plots and familiar settings -- high school, home, the big city -- seemed especially suited to the story of a nerd who, thanks to a bite from a radioactive spider, gains superpowers and becomes the web-slinging crime fighter. |
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