Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24174049-20131117220811/@comment-9782468-20131120035001

Lemme just say that Spider-Man is overall the most popular of them all. Stan Lee himself has noted in a book that when people recognize him, they ask "Aren't you the one who wrote Spider-Man?" Spider-man is different. He isn't confident, he thinks he's going to fail in a lot of his battles. But he keeps fighting. He's relatable. He was the first of Stan Lee's hero to go against the normal hero formula: He was a teenager, he had money problems, he was bullied and alienated from his peers, he was far from popular, etc. People related to him. He was always the guy to root for. In the end, if I was surrounded by a bunch of bad guys, I'd be more confident in my safety if Spider-man was around rather than Iron Man. Just my opinion