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Spider-Man

Spiderman was created by Stan Lee for Marvel Comics in 1962, the character first appearing that year in Amazing Fantasy #15. Because the superhero was immediately popular, Amazing Fantasy was renamed Amazing Spider-Man. A year later, Stan Lee was promoted and became the youngest editor in the comic book industry. It was primarily due to Spider-Man that Marvel Comics became one of the dominant comic-book publishers by the start of the next decade. In 1977, Spider-Man became the star of his own newspaper strip, achieving equal success in the new medium, ultimately appearing in more than 500 newspapers around the world. Although other super hero comic strips have come and gone, the Spider-Man strip achieved success as the longest running of them all. Spider-Man was written throughout from the start until the late 1990s by Stan Lee, while his younger brother Larry Lieber drew the daily newspaper comics for Marvel since the late 1980's when Larry replaced Fred Kids as the artist for "The Amazing Spider-Man." 1967 saw the first animated Spider-Man television series, premiering on ABC and running throughout the 1967 and 1968 seasons. A third season was not aired but was later released into syndication.