Doctor Octopus (real name Otto Octavius) is a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe (created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko) and one of the greatest foes of Spider-Man. "Doc Ock", as Spider-Man often calls him, is a powerful and highly intelligent foe who is usually considered Spider-Man's worst enemy, alongside the Green Goblin; a position not contested until the late 1980s by Venom. The character's first appearance was in Amazing Spider-Man volume 1 #3 (July 1963). Born in Schenectady NY, Otto Octavius had a turbulent upbringing. His father, a factory worker, was abusive and violent towards both Otto and his mother, leading Otto to be shy and reclusive in school. However, at his mother's insistence, he was determined not to become like his father and threw all his efforts into his education, regularly scoring top marks. It was hinted that he was a low-level telepathic mutant whose powers emerged at puberty; this mutation may have been responsible for giving his father an aneurysm as his father went to beat him. His father's death in an industrial accident pushed him further towards the study of, and obsession with, physical science. wikipedia.org