A couple of interesting items from the Marvel universe today. SPOILER ALERT! Don't read if you are a Spider-Man fan not in the know...

It's not terribly often that a comic book storyline makes the front page of Yahoo.com, but apparently it's big news even in the real world when Spider-Man decides to unmask himself for all the world to see.

"I'm proud of who I am, and I'm here right now to prove it," the legendary webslinger tells a press conference called in New York's Times Square, before pulling off his mask and standing before the massed ranks of reporters as newspaper photographer Peter Parker.

To catch up on the back-story of the current Marvel "Civil War" storyline, which is what ultimately forced Spidey to reveal his Pete Parker-ness, watch one of the cool Civil War video trailers.