I missed the part where he saved Wilbur the pig's life, too

As I seem to remember hearing one place or another, Spider-Man "does whatever a spider can." That means, of course, that all his powers are spider-related. (Even if he doesn't shoot his webbing out of his butt.) Climbing walls, superior strength, swinging across vast divides...well, just about the only spider-skill Peter doesn't have is sucking out the blood of his victims (exception: see The Tomb of Spider-Man: Vampire miniseries, 1988).

And in the forty years he's been around, we pretty much know all of Petey's special powers, right? Wrong!


Panel from Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964), script by Stan Lee, pencils and inks by Steve Ditko, letters by Artie Simek
Whoa. I'm not entirely certain that's a real "spider" power. Unless you count Braggy, the Spider Full of Hubris.