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Stan Lee Knew Why Marvel Hated Spider-Man, but His Original Superhero Name For Peter Parker Was Much Worse

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Stan Lee, the legendary Marvel comic book writer, is credited with creating the webcrawler Spider-Man. Despite the hero’s universal praise, Marvel did not like the name “Spider-Man” because of everyone’s collective hatred of spiders. According to a 2009 interview with Kevin Smith, Stan Lee came up with another moniker for Spider-Man, and that was – “Mosquito Man” (via The Week). Mosquito Man is so much worse, conjuring up images of a sewer villa…
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FandomWire broke the news in on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.
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