To Spider-Man with love: Letters to superhero's home go on display
Years ago, a family in a quiet suburb of New York began receiving letters from all over the world addressed to Peter Parker, better known as the superhero Spider-Man.
At first they thought that the letters were pranks. Then they discovered that their address, 20 Ingram Street, in Forest Hills, Queens, had been identified in issue number 317 of The Amazing Spider-Man as the address where Peter Parker lived with his Aunt May. By coincidence, the family happened to be called Parker.
The letters, which the Parkers kept, are part of an exhibition at the City Reliquary, a museum in Brooklyn.
“They would come randomly in our childhood," Pamela Parker, 41, who works as a graphic designer in Brooklyn, told the website Hell Gate. A Spider-Man fan in Germany sent a parcel containing sour chewing gum, a collection of stickers featuring horses and a piece of string.
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A beautifully written note arrived from siblings in a village in Tamil Nadu, southern India. "It's really a thrilling experience for us to write a letter to you," they said. School was about to finish for the year and they would love to spend their holidays "scaling the walls, jumping off from the top of the buildings and to protect children in danger... but we know very well that happens only in reel life and not so in real life".
Peter Parker also received junk mail, including a letter advising him to activate a new credit card. The Parkers moved to 20 Ingram Street in 1974 and lived there
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