Spider-Man!

Amazing Fantasy #15, August 1962
(Stan Lee and Steve Ditko)

Surely there's not a man or woman alive who doesn't know this tale?
Well, just in case, here's the edited highlights:


Weedy teenage boy.


Raised by doting Aunt and Uncle


Bitten by radioactive spider.


Gains super-powers.


Becomes celebrity wrestler.


Gets too big for his boots.


Uncle gets killed.


Whoops.


Doesn't make deal with Mephisto to bring his Uncle back to life.



The moral.

There you go: genius in 9 panels.