Quote Originally Posted by Pureghetto View Post
If you think about it, Peter Parker creates an adhesive threading that melts in a few hours.

And he was, at the time, in high school? That's too impossible.
"So, they laughed at me for <b>being</b> a bookworm, eh? Well, only a science major could have created a device like this! With some strong liquid cement at the end, I can pull myself up from <b>anywhere</b> with my little web!" -Peter Parker

Well, it was the '60s. They tried. Hence the extra help in the Ultimate Spider-man. They even mention how hard it is to come up with a small liquid-to-solid that will hold significant weight and not last forever.