Why waste time selling pictures to JJJ for pocket change when he could be a rich inventor (or seamstress)? In this regard  I prefer the films approach to the character, he's a student, not a scientist.

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SER: Peter Parker's background as a scientist is why he won his battles against pretty much every villain he met who wasn't a common thug. If he was just an average guy who got powers, he would have lost to Doctor Octopus, Electro, the Vulture, the Sandman, The Rhino, and The Lizard (you or I never could have "cured" Curt Connors).

Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, whether they knew it or not, made science "cool" with Spider-Man. Similar to how JB made journalism "cool" through the Superman stories of his that I read as a kid (granted, my background was such that I really could only follow in Clark Kent's professional footsteps).

Also, as for becoming a rich inventor, I think that falls into the "power and responsibility" category.

Read a recent interview today with Stan Lee on webshooters.

http://www.tibbysbowl.com/bowl/2009/01/11/stan-lee-interview /10/

>>PLUME: And now, honestly… You thoughts on organic webshooters?

LEE: Jim Cameron - who had written an original treatment for it long ago - and, apparently, Sam Raimi, both felt it made a better movie. They very well might be right. Maybe it would have been hard for an audience to accept that a guy could just make those things themselves. I would have had them be handmade webshooters. The way I would have done it is… but again, a movie is a very difficult thing to do when there’s so little time. They had to cut out most of my little cameo in it because the movie ran long. But what I would have done, if I could have, was have him - since before he became Spider-Man he was a science student - I would have had his project be that he was trying to develop a substance that could be shot out of an instrument and it would stick to walls for some reason… for whatever reason he wanted to do that. But he just wasn’t able to do it - all of his experiments failed. Then, when he was bitten by the spider, he instinctively knew how to do it - what chemicals to put together. So I would have done it that way, and then it would have been perfectly true to the comic book origin. But that would have taken more explaining and extra scenes and, again, maybe it still wouldn’t have been believable.
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This is about internal logic. Literally, in this case!

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I know. Unfortunately lots of people don't seem to get that.

I can't remember the name of the comic or it's issue number, but it was drawn by Frank Miller and introduced the girl who would later become Karma in New Mutants.

She decides to take over Spider-Man's body to save her little sister or some-such, but before she takes him over she makes a comment like, I know he can shoot webs, but is it a natural power, that's inhuman.

That pretty much sums it up for me.

Plus I LOVED my toy web shooters I had as a kid!

I can't remember the name of the comic or it's issue number, but it was drawn by Frank Miller and introduced the girl who would later become Karma in New Mutants.

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