Peter allowed a robber he encountered on the way home to escape because of his bad mood, an action that would later haunt him. The fight promoter gave him a more colorful costume and dubbed him Spider-Man, but his new career was cut short when he was accused of stealing money.

After Peter accidentally broke jock Flash Thompson’s hand in a fight, the Parkers were hit with expensive medical bills to help pay them, Peter secretly took up a wrestling challenge, wearing a mask to hide his youth and identity. Peter soon discovered that he had been mutated, gaining superhuman strength and agility and various spider-like powers. The company had been working on a super soldier serum, the Oz Compound a spider exposed to it escaped and bit Peter before it was destroyed. Peter’s relatively normal life changed abruptly during a school trip to Osborn Industries, Inc. His best friends at Midtown High, his school in Queens, were Harry Osborn, son of industrialist Norman Osborn and Mary Jane Watson, a fellow brain who lived across the street. Inheriting his father’s intellect, Peter grew to be a quiet, bookish, boy. Tragedy struck when both sets of parents were killed in a plane crash Peter was taken in by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May, and lost touch with Eddie.

While Richard worked alongside Ed Brock on medical research, their two families grew close though several years older, Eddie Brock Jr. Peter Parker was the son of scientist Richard Parker and his wife Mary.

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