Peter's Uncle Ben is murdered by a burglar, a criminal who earlier ran past
Peter at a television studio to which Peter had come to exhibit his
spider-abilities. Peter selfishly declined to help the police to stop the
fleeing crook and is to a significant extent responsible for the death of
his uncle. Peter, in his Spiderman guise, finds, punches, and webs the
murderer. Now aware that he has received his powers for a higher purpose
than exhibition for monetary gain, Peter accepts his duty as a costumed
fighter of crime, a responsibility that he vows never again to fail. To
support his Aunt May, Ben's widow, Peter becomes a freelance photographer
for the Daily Bugle newspaper as an aside to his continued studies and his
responsibility as Spiderman to the good people of New York. Peter does not
allow anyone, not even his aunt, to know that he is Spiderman. The Daily
Bugle publisher, a cigar-smoking, self-righteous, blustery chauvinist named
J. Jonah Jameson, has a jaundiced view of Spiderman's heroism and wields
considerable influence with the city government and police force. So, Spidey
must constantly be wary of the police whom he is helping, usually retaining
the villains that he catches in a web for police to apprehend after he has
left the capture scene, and attaching a note with an appropriate pun in
regard to the crook and which says that the capture was courtesy of "Your
Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman".