Ben Parker

Death
On one fateful day, Uncle Ben drove Peter into the city under the pretense of him going to the library, but Peter's plan was to secretly instead go to the studio where they were filming the reality show "So You Think You Can Wrestle?". Before heading out, Ben decided to have a talk with Peter about his attitude change and his anti-social actions over the course of the summer, including Peter's fight with his longtime bully Flash Thompson. Ben gave him sage advice--with great power there must also come great responsibility. But Peter wasn't listening, and instead blew him off and left.

Sometime later, Peter headed back to where Ben had agreed to pick him up, and found a large group of people on the sidewalk with some police cars in the area. Peter checks to see what the commotion is, and finds his uncle on the ground, clutching his bloodied chest. Peter identifies himself as his nephew to the police, and they tell him that a carjacker shot Ben and stole his car as a getaway vehicle. Uncle Ben is conscious when Peter gets to him, but he quickly fades and passes away. Grief-stricken and filled with rage Peter walked away from the scene after hearing the police may have found his killer in a nearby warehouse. He donned his costume and set off for the warehouse.

Peter was able to find the warehouse with ease, police cars swarming all around it. The killer had apparently barricaded himself in, but Peter snuck in through a window. He managed to catch the killer by surprise, disarm him, and knock him out, but before he can do something he'd really regret later Peter got a good look at the man's face in the light--it was the burglar who robbed the reality show producer, the one Peter had let get away. Instead of taking the responsibility to do the right thing he had thought only of himself and inadvertently gotten his uncle killed.

Ben Parker's words of wisdom would become the reason for Peter's creation of the Spider-Man identity.

Design
"The pose is completely ripped off from a well known Uncle Ben drawing. Design wise, I think every Uncle Ben designer kind of puts their own vision of "father-figure" into him, and as such he kind of looks like my own dad.  Not much else to say here, this is pretty much Ben Parker as you'd remember him." - GM