10 Scientific Secrets Of Spider-Man Only Geeks Will Love
8. Peter Parker’s Intellect Is On Par With Marvel’s Greatest Minds
Peter Parker was conceived by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko to be an intellectually gifted young man. In fact, that is what set him at odds with Flash Thompson and his classmates in high school, as Parker was a top student in science in both high school and later college. In short, Peter was a nerd.
In the decades since his creation, more modern writers have gone as far as portraying Spider-Man as having a genius-level IQ.
Academically brilliant far beyond his age, Peter had expertise in the fields of applied sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, and physics. It was revealed in Spider-Man Human Torch #3 that Parker’s IQ scores are the same as those of Reed Richards at the same age. In that regard, Richards admits that he defers to Peter in matters of biology as Reed's own specialty in physics may sometimes cloud his decisions.
A gifted engineer, inventor, and robotics maker, Peter Parker created his web shooters and designed his web fluid when he was still just a teenager. Later, Parker made a number of inventions, first for Horizon Labs and then his own Parker Industries. He created many groundbreaking devices and discoveries, including four Spider-Armors, a stealth suit, noise-cancelling headphones, Anti-Electro-Netting, an antidote for the Zodiac poison, and the Parker Particles, an energy force tied to the expansion of the universe that exceeds the Phoenix Force in its level of power.