<P> The fictional character Spider - Man, a comic book superhero created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and featured in Marvel Comics publications, has currently appeared in ten live - action films since his inception, not including fan made shorts . Spider - Man is the alter - ego of Peter Parker, a talented young freelance photographer and aspiring scientist, and Miles Morales, a high school student, both imbued with superhuman abilities after being bitten by radioactive / genetically - altered spiders . </P> <P> The first live - action film based on Spider - Man was the unauthorized short Spider - Man by Donald F. Glut in 1969 . This was followed by Spider - Man, an American made - for - television film that premiered on the CBS network in 1977 . It starred Nicholas Hammond and was intended as a backdoor pilot for what became a weekly episodic TV series . </P>

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