See how Spider-Man has been built, from the first of the animated TV series in 1967 to the next project Spider-Man: Freshman Year
Our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man stands tall as one of the most animated superheroes in history, clocking in at just nine animated series produced from the ’60s to date.
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As the wall-crawler prepares for his return to animation in Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Freshman Year, let’s take a look at his animated adventures on a slightly smaller screen.
Spider-Man, you’re my friend…
Spidey took television by storm early on when in 1967 he won his own animated series, simply and appropriately called “Spider-Man.” The show’s setting echoed the current Spidey comics at the time, as close as possible with Peter Parker taking photos for the Daily Bugle and all the classic villains available.
While the animation itself was limited, the series ran for three seasons, and its upbeat, upbeat theme song became a legend that transcends the episodes themselves, both the English version and its Spanish counterpart by Captain Memo.
A long wait and amazing friends
Spidey waited more than ten years after the end of his first animated series to return to television with another, and perhaps to reward his patience, in 1981 he received two shows.
The series titled “Spider-Man” told a family story of college student Peter Parker who worked part-time as a photographer, sure, but also introduced him to the larger Marvel Universe.
Suddenly his web welcomed guest stars like Doctor Doom, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Ka-Zar, Medusa, and the Red Skull, but alas, the series only lasted one season.
Interestingly, another Spidey series premiered that same year. “Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends” also featured college student Peter Parker, but added two more headliners in the forms of heroes Iceman and Firestar as…what else? — fellow university students.
Along with their pet dog, the three “Spider-pals” met an astonishing array of denizens of the Marvel Universe, including Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and the X-Men, as well as a few friends created exclusively for the show. In total, the series lasted three seasons.
A new award awaiting
Our animation hero’s next downtime lasted another ten years, but he returned to our hearts in 1994 with a show called, you guessed it, “Spider-Man.”
The classic setup remained: Peter in college, working as a photographer, fighting familiar enemies, but now with the animated addition of Mary Jane Watson to the mix along with the mysterious Madame Web and the Black Cat.
Incredibly, the show predicted the web-slinging future with episodes featuring alternate versions of Spider-Man, and when it ended, it had a record five seasons.
The adventures now go without limits
Stop us if you’ve heard this before: college student and part-time photographer Peter Parker, but wait! Forget all that! In 1999, due to legal reasons related to rights and other things, Spider-Man got another chance to make an animated series, but with a big twist.
Spider-Man Unlimited took our hero to Counter-Earth, where he got a new Spidey suit, joined a band of rebels alongside J. Jonah Jameson to fight the High Evolutionary and his forces, and met heroic versions of the Green Goblin. and Vulture. He rounded it out with Venom and Carnage for the wild ride and got a series that was only thirteen episodes long.
Spidey in the 21st century
Once he crossed the line from one millennium to the next, Spider-Man deserved nothing less than the latest in technological advances, and so 2003’s “Spider-Man: The New Animated Series” was presented in flashy computer animation.
Adding fuel to the fire, the show spun off from the previous year’s live-action Spider-Man feature film and plunged college student Peter Parker into new run-ins with classic costumed criminals, but also into something of a love triangle with Mary Jane. and the new character Indira Daimonji. Unfortunately, the series only lasted one season of thirteen episodes.
The web-slinger in his 2008 “Spectacular Spider-Man” show came up with something different: He went back to high school. Well, in the montage, Peter Parker didn’t back down from college; he was introduced as a high school student who recently became super-powered.
Along with friends Flash Thompson, Gwen Stacy, and Harry Osborn, our wall-crawler battled Big Man’s villains and followed the advice of his mentor Norman Osborn, earning him two seasons of episodes.
A new decade and new friends
With the popularity of writer Brian Michael Bendis’s Spider-Man comics in 2012, a new series titled “Ultimate Spider-Man” debuted that year with Bendis’ contribution.
As in the previous animated show, Peter’s career as a superhero was still new and in order to receive SHIELD training from Nick Fury, he found himself working alongside teenagers Nova, White Tiger, Iron Fist and Power Man. classic villains, as well as Miles Morales, and over the course of three seasons, Spidey kicked some serious butt.
That brings us to 2017’s “Marvel’s Spider-Man” and the more classic Spidey setup. High school student Peter Parker, the photographer, Gwen Stacy, etc., but Miles Morales is there too, looking to Spidey for a mentor while Norman Osborn, Doctor Octopus and the Jackal lurk in the shadows looking for new paths to evil.
Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Freshman Year, an animated Original Series, coming soon to @DisneyPlus. #DisneyPlusDay pic.twitter.com/yCWLNS57hS
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) November 12, 2021
Following the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel Studios will delve deeper into the web-slinging story before joining Iron Man in Captain America: Civil War and producing the Spider-Man: Freshman Year animated series.
The animated series follows Peter Parker on his journey to become Spider-Man in the MCU, with a journey unlike anything we’ve seen before and a style that celebrates the character’s early comic roots. Written by executive producer Jeff Trammel.
Do not miss: The most nostalgic facts about Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
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