Spider-Man: Origins to Overexposure
The origins of "Spider-Man" can be traced back to the year of 1962, when Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's masked hero first made an appearance in an anthology comic book by the name of Amazing Fantasy #15 . Since that fateful release, Spider-Man has been plastered everywhere: from comics to novels, coloring books to video games, records to multiple waves of television series', and perhaps most notably, on the big screen. In many ways, however, Spider-Man's true overexposure began in the spring of 2002, when Marvel's genetically-altered superhero took to the cinema for the very first time. This release, pitting Tobey Maguire's "Spider-Man" against Willem Dafoe's "Green Goblin", would open the franchise up to an immeasurable world of possibilities. Following rather overwhelming commercial success, Tobey Maguire reprised his role as Spider-Man in "Spider-Man 2" (2004) and "Spider-Man 3" (2007), defeating numerous villa...