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Didn't Daredevil have Foggy and Karen and Johnny have Dorrie? Idk actually I'm just reading through ASM for the first time and they've both guest starred so far with those characters so I just assumed.
I will say unless the others pull something unexpected when I finally get around to them it's clear that Spidey just has a more robust world. He somehow feels like a real person with a regular life and also a superhero at the same time. And they just have a lot of lively things going on. It's easy to underappreciate or write-off characters like J. Jonah Jameson, Flash Thompson, Liz Allan, Betty Brant, Aunt May, and Uncle Ben but they all add a lot to the world that makes a Spider-Man comic far more entertaining than your average cape comic. Just those personalities or JJJ and Flash and the gang always bumping up on him add a nice flair to the story. I was just reading the one where Peter has to dash away from the Spider-Man fan club to look after Aunt May in the hospital and just seeing how much of an over the top fucker Jameson was about it was too much (in a good way.) The way he rubbed it in, buying ads on TV just to shit talk Spidey as a coward, taking out billboard ads, paying guys to walk around town wearing signs saying to buy his TELL ALL BOOK "The Spider-Man Myth: an expose by J. Jonah Jameson", him giving speeches about it at local colleges, it was to die for.
And on top of that not only do Flash and the gang add some down to Earth flair for Pete to be bumping heads with them, but the whole bit with Flash being his biggest fan also adds a lot of zest. I mean how many other heroes would wind up in a situation where they find themselves having to make an appearance at their own fanclub meeting and not have it seem like a contrived situation? And the whole reason he had to leave - Aunt May having a heart attack. It seems like a cliche trope now, but Pete always having to worry about her illness and having to keep his identity a secret from her because she's just too old and fragile to deal with it and her always scolding him for being out late it just adds so much heart and relatability to the story. And when Peter finds Aunt May crying in the attic looking through Ben's old things and spends a whole issue feeling so guilty about it he loses his powers or even all the times he has to deal with Betty and them getting close but then her misunderstanding some situation he's in and pulling away from him and always giving him trouble; those things add so much to the world that really become apparent when you think of what would another hero be doing by contrast? Sitting in the Batcave running tests? Tracking down a villain? Going to space and dealing with a color cast of characters? All of those things are cool but Spidey can do those AND have a lot of heart and domestic drama. Other heroes just lack that human aspect and when you try to insert it into their lives it just doesn't work and usually winds up contrived.