Uncle Ben facts
While investigating facts about Uncle Ben, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Marvel had a comic distributed that told the canonical origins of Aunt May in which Aunt May cheated on Uncle Ben with Peter's dad and decided to give the child/Peter away to Peter's Dad's wife.
Peter Parker's parents were killed in a plane crash. They were spies. Following their deaths Peter went to live with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about Uncle Ben I managed to collect.
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The Spider-Man quote "With great power comes great responsibility" wasn't attributed to Uncle Ben Parker until 1987. Its first appearance in 1962 was just a narrative caption.
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Uncle Ben's products are manufactured by Mars
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Uncle Ben of the famous food brand isn't even a real person. He is based on a head waiter named Charles Brown of Chicago in the 1940s. Aunt Bessie of the potatoes brand isn't even a real person too.
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Actor Cliff Robertson (Uncle Ben from Spiderman and Charly from the Flowers for Algernon movie) was flying over the World Trade Center when the first plane hit.
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Cliff Robertson (Uncle Ben in Spider-Man) was John F. Kennedy's personal choice to play him in PT 109.
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Uncle Ben rices' iconic face was a visage of a Chicago maître d’hôtel Frank Brown, and a German-British man and an Englishman invented the method of vacuuming rice for many purposes, one of which was to resist weevils.
