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Confession: I'm a Spidey fan, but he's not in my top 5. By the time I got into reading Spidey books as a boy, he whined too much. I'm all for being a downtrodden hero, but go too far into that direction and it becomes more than just a character flaw.
Spidey is a very well veiled Superboy pastich with elements of Philip Wylie's Hugo Danner Gladiator (which is, not surprisingly, one of Superman's inspirations).