Stan Lee describes how the Spider-Man character was created

Stan Lee talks about what he was thinking when he was creating the character, Spider-Man.

He reveals that he wondered what it would be like if somebody who had superpowers lived in the real world with normal day-to-day issues.

The co-creator of Marvel Comics Stan Lee was interviewed by ITV Central in 1991 in Nottingham.

He was the man behind comic book legends including Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Thor.

He died in on Monday (12 November) at the age of 95.

ITV Central interviewed him in 1991 while he was in Nottingham launching his book, Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics.[](https://www.itv.com/news/2018-11-12/stan-lee-dies/)READ: Tributes to Stan Lee who has died aged 95.