**I hate to break it to you, but this reboot of Spiderman resembles the stories told on Marvel Earth #616, mostly in the comics of The Amazing Spiderman.** - Peter Parker's parents WERE spies. [**Richard and Mary Parker**][1] (Amazing Spiderman #365) - Peter Parker did create his first [**artificial mechanical webshooters**][2]. (Amazing Fantasy #15) - [**The Lizard**][3] was both a friend and mentor to Parker, Doctor Curtis Conners, before he used a serum designed to regenerate limbs (made from lizard DNA) and became the Lizard. (Amazing Spiderman #6) - Beautiful [**Gwen Stacey**][4] was indeed Parker's first girlfriend and she dies falling from a bridge, thrown by the Green Goblin. (first appearance Amazing Spiderman #31) - Gwen Stacy dies in the seminal issue Amazing Spiderman #121 ![enter image description here][5] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_and_Mary_Parker [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%27s_powers_and_equipment#Artificial_web-shooters [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_%28comics%29 [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stacy [5]: https://i.sstatic.net/PzTVD.jpg