I don't follow all this comic stuff, but I've noticed that all the Spiderman movies revolve around high school, so he's really a Spider-Boy. I took my son to see this latest one and I noticed they really drove home the point that he's a kid.
So are there stories of Spiderman in adulthood? Will there ever be a movie that doesn't have a school as a back-drop?
He graduated high school in issue #28 in 1965.
I think the other movies had him get past high school, but not out of college yet.
He graduated college in issue #185 in 1978. Took him 13 years, LOL.
I think the core comic book has more or less continued in the same timeline since then. So he spent 3 years in high school, 13 years in college and 39 years since then. By 1995, he had spent more time out of school than in school.
I mainly knew Spider-Man from the 1980s and 1990s comics, so I always knew him as a full-time employee of the Daily Bugle. I am not sure what his status was in the various 1980s and 1990s Spider-Man TV cartoon series.
A lot of his comics from the 80s and 90s feature him a little older... but there's no definite age given that I can recall. He was past high school and college and had a wife and a job. Then about 10 years or so ago they decided to undo a lot of the stuff they've done and I stopped reading them. They also had another series called "Ultimate Spider-Man" which was a different continuity entirely that had him as a teenager.
shareI believe that the organic web-shooters in Raimi's films were used in the Ultimate Spider-Man version of Peter Parker, but originated first in James Cameron's 1990s movie script.
Peter's fat friend in this movie was taken from the Ultimate Spider-Man comic books that feature Miles Morales, who is the black teen-ager that replaces Peter Parker as Spider-Man when Peter dies.
No, he still has mechanical web-shooters in the Ultimate version.
shareComics experts believe Spider-Man is currently 28 in the comics. ( http://www.comicsbackissues.com/how-old-is-peter-parker-spider-man/ )
shareLOL "comics experts"
shareWhy is this amusing to you? Comics are a literary form. Many look down on it, but that is what it is. It is a particular format to tell a story. While most people know of the Super Hero comics, there are humor comics, drama comics, horror, sf, fantasy and just about any other genre.
Unless you ridicule experts on other types/genres of literary forms, it is disingenuous to feel contempt for those who are experts at comics.
In the newspaper editions of Spiderman, he looks like he is in his late 20s-early 30s.
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