Spider-Man character is created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. But Sony Pictures Entertainment bought the picture right from marvel in 1999. After that, Sony made various movies on this character based on the story of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.

Spider-Man Logos

Spider-Man logo is one the most beautiful logos that one can imagine. These are created by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and John Ramita. Though, the logos evolved over the two decades.

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Animated Series.

Spiderman And His Amazing Friends (1981-83).

Spiderman and his amazing friends is a marvel produced animated tv series published from September 12, 1981 to November 5, 1983. This superhero action adventure series was based on Stan Lee, Steve Ditko’ spider-man, directed by John Jurwich. Overall there were three seasons with 24 episodes in total with an average runtime of 25 minutes. 

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Plot:

Three friends Spider-Man, Firestar & Iceman were studying in Empire State University fighting Beetle to reoccupy Power Booster which beetle stole from Iron-Man. Then they make a team of three which is termed as “Spider-Friends”. They battle many super villains while they live in May Parker’s house together.

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Sam Raimi made three movies respectively in 2002, 2004 & in 2007.

Tobey Maguire casted as Spider-Man under Sam Raimi’s trilogy of Spider-Man franchise.

Tobey got his international acceptance by portraying Peter Parker in 2002, 2004, 2007 and lately in 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home. Moreover, he has a separate fan-base, as he got first appearance holding the hands of Sam Raimi.

 1. Spider-Man (2002) 

Action/Sci-fi 

Runtime 2h 1m

IMDB 7.4

Release Date 3 May 2002.

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• Tobey Maguire as spider-man 
• Kristen Dunst as Mary Jane
• James Franco as Harry Osborn
• Williem Dafoe as Green Goblin 
• Elizabeth Banks 

An orphan high school student Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) gains superhuman abilities after a genetically modified spider bites him. Initially, Peter uses his powers for personal gain. However, his outlook changes when a criminal he let go kills his Uncle Ben. Motivated by guilt, Peter becomes Spider-Man, fighting crime in New York City.

Meanwhile, Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe), the father of Peter’s best friend Harry (James Franco), transforms into the Green Goblin after a failed experiment. As Spider-Man, Peter battles the Green Goblin while struggling with his feelings for Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and his double life. The story climaxes in a fierce fight where Spider-Man defeats the Green Goblin, who accidentally kills himself. Peter then realizes that being Spider-Man means making personal sacrifices.

 2. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Action/Sci-fi

Runtime 2h7m

IMDB 7.5

Release Date : June 30, 2004

Box Office : $795.9 Million 

When Peter Parker is totally frustrated after his loving girlfriend gets engaged. On the other hand he loses his job.Also, spider-man allegedly mis believed to be guilty for the demise of Norman Osborn, father of Harry Osborn. In the meantime, the arrival of a wicked Otto Octavious who wants to ruin New York City. In this situation Spider-man must fight back to save the city from wicked powers.

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Spider-Man 2 Cast:

• Tobey Maguire as Spiderman 
• Kristen Dunst as Mary Jane
• Alfred Molin as Doctor Octopus
• Williem Dafoe as Green Goblin 
• James Franco as Harry Osborn

 3. Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Action/Sci-fi 

Runtime 2h19m

IMDB 6.3

Release Date: May 4, 2007

Box office : $895.9 Million

Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) enjoys a stable life, balancing his role as Spider-Man and his relationship with Mary Jane. However, things quickly unravel. Harry Osborn (James Franco), now the New Goblin, seeks revenge for his father’s death. Meanwhile, Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church) becomes the Sandman after a freak accident and some truths revealed.

Additionally, an alien symbiote enhances Peter’s powers but darkens his personality. This causes rifts with Mary Jane and Harry. Eventually, the symbiote bonds with Eddie Brock (Topher Grace), creating the vengeful Venom. In the final showdown, Peter and Harry join forces against Sandman and Venom. Harry sacrifices himself to save Peter, who overcomes his enemies. The film ends with Peter and Mary Jane attempting to repair their relationship, facing their future together.

Spider-Man 3 Cast

• Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man
• Kristen Dunst as Mary Jane
• James Franco as Harry Osborn 
• Bryce Dallas as Gwen Stacy 
• Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin

Marc Webb & Andrew Garfield Era.

Marc Webb directed The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012 and its sequel in 2014 respectively. Andrew Garfield was casted as Peter Parker and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy for two consecutive movies of The Amazing Spider-Man series.

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

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Action/Adventure 

Release Date: July 2012

IMDB: 6.9

Box Office: $758.8 million

Plot:

Peter’s parents left him in his uncle and aunt’s home while he was a child. Peter was a shy guy in school, and had a crush on Gwen Stacy, daughter of Captain George Stacy. On a sorrowful event, Peter’s uncle dies and Peter finds out his father’s friend, a scientist at OSCORP & gives him some algorithm that his father hid. Later, Peter unveils his identity to Gwen as she affirmed her love proposal.

On the other hand, the scientist keeps doing the evil treatment with the algorithm.

 The Amazing Spider-Man Cast

• Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man
• Emma Stone  as Gwen Stacy
• Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors
• Stan Lee as Librarian
• Sally Field as May Parker
• Denis Leary as George Stacy

 Gwen Stacy vs Mery Jane

Gwen Stacy was the first affair that Spider-Man had and eventually he could not save her. George Stacy is her father who was a Captain in the NYPD. 

Gwen Stacy was seen as a High School Student with Peter Parker and Later as a Research Scientist at the Oscorp.

On The Other Hand, Mery Jane Watson is the second girl that becomes the partner of Peter after the demise of Gwen. As she was a next door neighbor to Peter, they knew each other from before. Also, Mery dated 2 or 3 guys before Peter and eventually fell for him.  

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

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Action/Adventure

Runtime 2h22m

IMDB 6.6

The second Spider-Man movie directed by Marc Webb is The Amazing Spider-Man 2.Also, this is the final movie of the Amazing Spider-Man series. In this movie Peter focuses on finding out the reason of his parents death, fights electro and tries to save his girlfriend Gwen.

On the other hand, Peter seeks help from Harry Osborn, Peter’s friend who is in a moribound situation.

To mention, this movie’s music was scored by Hans Zimmer.

Shaliene Woodley, had a small role of Mery Jane (MJ) in the movie but Marc decided to cut the shots from the real edition so the story doesn’t get distracted from Gwen and Peter.

Cast:

• Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker
• Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy
• Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn 
• Shaliene Woodley as Mery Jane Watson
• Jamie Foxx as Electro
• Denis Leary as George Stacy

Jon Watts & Tom Holland Era

Watts directed Spider-Man Homecoming and its sequel Spider-Man Far From Home with Tom Holland Acting as Peter Parker. Their first one touched $1billion for the first time as a Spider-Man franchise movie

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Spider-Man Homecoming (2017)

Action/fantasy 

Runtime 2h13m

IMDB 7.4

Release Date: July 7, 2017

Box office $880.2 million

Spider-Man Homecoming (2017) Directed by Jon Watts, written by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley  & based on spider-man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. This movie has a budget of $175 million.

Spider-Man Homecoming Cast

• Tom Holland as Spider-Man
• Zendaya as MJ
• Micheal Jeaton as Adrian Toomes
• Jacob Batalon as Ned
• Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man
• Jennifer Connelly as Karen
• Marisa Tomei as May Parker

Spider-Man Homecoming Plot

A young Peter Parker/Spider-Man begins to navigate his newfound identity as web-slinging superhero Spider-Man. Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May, under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark. Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine–distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man–but when the Vulture emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened- Flick Direct

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Action/Sci-fi

Runtime 2h10m

IMDB 7.4

Dir. Jon Watts

Release Date: June 26, 2019

Box office $1.132 billion

Spider-Man: Far From Home Cast

• Tom Holland as Spider-Man
• Zendaya as MJ
• Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio 
• Jacob Batalon as Ned
• Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury
• Marisa Tomei as May Parker

Mysterio confronts an unidentified creature in a Mexican city and later he is summoned by Nick Fury & Hill. Whereas Peter Parker was mourning for Iron-Man, goes to Venice for a school trip with his friends and decides to tell his feelings to Mery Jane(MJ). After a fight at the trip, MJ says that she knows Peter is Spider-Man. Also, she shows him some detritus from the fighting area and they identify it as a projector. This unveils the squalor game of Mysterio.

Spiderman Into The Spider Verse (2018)

Family/Action

Runtime 1h56m

IMDB: 8.4

Release Date: 14 December 2018

Box office: 384.3 million

The first spider-man movie which is animated is also the first movie of the spider-verse. This movie is directed by  Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman. To mention, this film introduces Miles Morales as alter spider-man. 

Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse Cost Was $90 million.

Read About Miles Morales: 

In this movie Miles gets bit by a radioactive spider when his uncle takes him to an abandoned subway to paint graffiti and thus he gets the super power as Spider-Man.

Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse Cast

• Shameik Moore as Miles Morales
• Jake Johnson as Spider-Man
• Oscar Issac as Spider-Man
• Mahershala Ali as Aaron Davis 
• Chris Pine as Spider-Man
• Zoë Kravitz as Mery Jane Watson

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023)

Plot: After a battle, Gwen Stacy (Spider-Women) gets suspected for murder of his friend Peter Parker. PDNY officer George, also father of Gwen, gets involved to find out the Spider-Women and finally unleashes the truth while  Miguel O’hara, Spider-Man from another universe gives her a special watch that will allow her to join the Spider-Verse.

On the other side, Miles Morales fights the spot guy, prepares himself for further studies but his parents are afraid of losing him. In the meantime Gwen comes back to meet him, tells him all the stories. Miles in dilemma, whether to unveil his identity to his parents or to go with Gwen.

What Is the Canon Effect?

Every Spider-Man’s life events are attached to a common thread which also defines their destiny. This thing is called “Arachnohumanoid Polymultivers” also Spider-Verse. Again there’s some meeting point or nodes in the thread that matches the story of every Spider-Man of every universe. These are called canon events, which converge every spider-man together .So, if one of the universal truths or events like the death of Captain is reverted or fate is changed by some intervention, then the whole thread might get broken. For that, the reverted or altered planet gets a hole in the thread which might destroy Spider-Man’s fate.

Who Is Miles Morales?

Miles Morales 

•  First appeared in “Ultimate Fallout” #4 in 2011, created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli.
•  A teenager of African-American and Puerto Rican descent, living in Brooklyn, New York.
•  Bitten by a genetically altered spider, which was inadvertently brought to his universe.
•  Becomes Spider-Man after the death of his universe’s Peter Parker, aiming to honor his legacy.
•  Shares many of Peter’s abilities: superhuman strength, agility, reflexes, wall-crawling, and spider-sense.
•  Ability to become invisible.
•  Bio-electric energy that can paralyze enemies on contact.
•   Initially from the Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610).
•   Later integrated into the main Marvel Universe (Earth-616) after the “Secret Wars” event.
•   Coexists with Peter Parker, with both characters operating as Spider-Man in different capacities.

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Spiderman Actors 

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Spiderman Tobey Maguire:

Tobey Maguire worked as Spider-Man under Sam Raimi’ Trilogy of Spider-Man franchise.Tobey got his international acceptance by portraying Peter Parker in 2002,2004, 2007 and lately in 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home. Tobey has his separate fanbase, got first appearance.

Spider-Man Andrew Garfield : 

Marc Webb directed The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012 and its sequel in  2014 respectively. Andrew Garfield was casted as Peter Parker and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy for two consecutive movies of The Amazing Spider-Man series.

Spider-Man Tom Holland:

Watts directed Spider-Man Homecoming and its sequel Spider-Man Far From Home with Tom Holland Acting as Peter Parker. Their first one touched $1billion for the first time as a Spider-Man franchise movie.

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When Will Spider-Man 4 Arrive?

Okay, we might see a new, fresh sequel of the Spider-Man series but no sooner. Because, there’s almost no news of a probable release of the Spider-Man series. To mention, Sony said, they have a release date for an unannounced movie on June 27, 2025. You might have noticed that almost all the Spider-Man movies released in the June- July timeline. So it might be a  possible date for the comeback of Tom Holland as Spidy.

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