Peter Parker Actually Wasn't the First Spider-Man to Join the Avengers

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While Spider-Man has become a classic Avengers member after joining forces with them on a number of missions throughout Marvel Comics history, his association with the team wasn’t always a given as he actually took quite a while to commit to the superhero squad at all. In fact, Peter Parker took so long that he wasn’t even the first Spider-Man to join the Avengers, as that honor was bestowed upon someone much more sinister.

Peter Parker aka Spider-Man first got the offer to join the Avengers in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #3 by Stan Lee, John Romita, and Don Heck. In that issue, the Avengers are considering allowing Spider-Man to join their team, so they hold a tryout for the Wall-crawler to see if he is up to the task. Unfortunately, things go sideways and Spider-Man ends up fighting all of the Avengers over a petty dispute. Basically, the tryouts couldn’t have gone more wrong. However, the Avengers still decide to give Spidey a chance, so they give him the task of finding the Hulk who they had lost track of some time before. While Spider-Man was able to locate the Hulk, he realized that Hulk was just a lost soul with the mind of a child and didn’t pose any actual threat, so he let him go and told the Avengers that joining the team wasn’t for him. However, years after that first encounter, Spider-Man would align with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes just as an alternate version of the Web-slinger had done years prior.

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