The Amazing Person-Spider’s origin story is as unlikely as any other superhero’s: a spider was bitten by a radioactive person. More specifically, a spider—laying low with a few of its buddies, in a bin of tortilla chips at a Tex-Mex eatery—suddenly found itself trapped in a particularly viscous order of fiery Tejano pulled-pork nachos, a local delicacy. And in this vulnerable position it suffered the ravenous bite of a person, one previously exposed to toxic levels of radiation. (He had used a cell phone for upward of five years.)
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