Miles Morales first appeared in Ultimate Fallout #4 (August 2011), following the death of Peter Parker. The character was created in 2011 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and Italian artist Sara Pichelli, with input by Marvel's then-editor-in-chief Axel Alonso. Miles Gonzalo Morales ( / m ə ˈ r æ l ə s/) is a fictional comic book character, a superhero appearing in publications by the American publisher Marvel Comics, and is one of the characters known as Spider-Man.