I'm super excited that the Spider-Man line is getting more big movie treatment again, and that new movies will come out about him. He's my favorite superhero. I think writer/editor Stan Lee and writer/artist Steve Ditko did an amazing job conceiving him.
When did Spider-Man first come out?
He started poking around in 1962, so he's been around a long, long time. Came around in the anthology comic book "Amazing Fantasy" #15, i nthe Silver Age of Comic Books. 
That is quite a long time, is he considered a Marvel character or something else?
Yeah, he exists with the Marvel Universe, with the alter ego of Peter Parker. Kind of that typical "orphan" story, like Batman and Superman, where his parents were killed early on in a plane crash and he had to be raised by aunt and uncle. But what I like about him is he has to deal with normal struggles of adolescence, and financial issues--real life stuff.