atomius
This cartoon features the double life of a teenage reporter for a city paper, the Daily Bugle. Peter Parker is, to his boss Jameson, merely a employee, and also to the female secretary at the Bugle. Jameson often gets angry at a mysterious hero called Spiderman who happens to be Peter's second life. Peter never reveals this odd adventurous second life and always manages to defeat outrageously dressed villains with strange powers or contraptions that aid them in their foul plans.One of the better things about this show is the background music which is very nice. The credits are quite good and the animation, whilst limited to less movements and flexibility of the flash animation of today has a certain quality to it that is pleasing to the eye. The adventures are obscure and extra-ordinary to say the least. Quite entertaining, and certainly a interesting look at what modern science could achieve.
blackarachnia2
I think that today's Spiderman animated series doesn't even come close to being as good as this. My mother says "the animation was bad but at least they had an excuse back then." When you're a little kid like that you tend not to care what other people think. I didn't really care what my mother thought at the time because she wasn't a little kid back then so how could she have possibly known about the animation of these films? I think to get a good enough prospective of it you have to see it through a young child's eyes. Seeing their favourite comic book super heroes coming to life right before their very eyes and wondering how did they do that? That's what this cartoon series has meant to me. I didn't really care one way or the other just how bad the animation was or how corny the jokes were. I just saw it as "it's Spiderman! Shut up and let me enjoy it" (Note that I never would have said that out loud when I was a kid but it was just something that I was thinking at the time.) Spiderman is probably one of my most favourite cartoon superheroes next to Wolverine from the X-Men but that's a different comment all together.
legendsofrock2003
The greatest adaptation of a marvel comic book until the first Spiderman Movie! The Incredible Hulk Television series was great but was not faithful to the source material the way this cartoon was! Many people comment that the animation does not stand up to todays standards, well tell me, nay-sayers, what animated show from that time does? Lets compare this one to other animated shows of that day (40 Years ago)Let's say, Marvel Superheroes?!?!? how about Superfriends? The action and pacing on this Spiderman show was top, notch. The Action and pacing on Superfriends was slow and plodding. Yes, they over used animation cells more than the bigger budgeted super friends but they knew how to do so in a way that made the show have a visual style all it's own, and the over all feel of this 40 year old cartoon is better than any superhero cartoon before or since! In my view! I still love watching this one as much now, as I did then, and I'm 44 years old! The last time I tried watching Superfriends, I fell asleep!
medic249a2
I grew up watching this series when it was airing in the early 1980's. Now, watching it 20 years later, one wonders what some of the artists were doing when they created some of the backgrounds for it - namely the purple-yellow-red colored skies that Spidey often swung across. Understandable in some episodes, but they appeared in most of them. Some of the villains, such as the Green Goblin, Rhino, & Doc Oc came from the comics, but it was some of the more unconventional villains I was especially impressed with - ones such as the Radiation Specialist, the Skymaster, and Pardo (the weird thief with the giant cat).No doubt my favorite was the psychopathic radiation specialist - a very human villain, unlike some of the others. He could have been a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, who was fired for his grandiose ideas. This maniac appeared in 2 episodes: 'Swing City', where he is referred to as the 'Master Technician', and 'Specialists & Slaves'. The latter was more chilling as this creep revealed his grandiose plans to make Manhattan his 'kingdom' after being thwarted by Spidey earlier. He sends a wave of low-dose radiation across Manhattan, brainwashing everyone, including the police - traditionally Spidey's friends - into unquestioning loyalty. Again, he lifts Manhattan into the sky, and Spidey, undeterred by his threats, comes after him. But the specialist triggers a number of earthquakes to send Spidey falling into the streets, where he is soon captured. Only Captain Stacey, whose strong mind has immunized him against the specialist's radiation, comes to Spidey's help. Playing both sides of the fence to avoid detection, he manages to help Spidey escape the prison hospital. Spidey heads to the reactor for a showdown with the specialist, who discovers that Spidey has escaped and lets him into the reactor for the confrontation. The specialist tries to turn Spidey into a slave with high-dose radiation, but by force of will, Spidey resists the radiation & kicks the specialist in the face. The specialist, enraged at his failure, fires a ray at Spidey, which misses Spidey & hits the controls sustaining the anti-gravity ray. Manhattan starts to fall and Spidey overpowers the specialist, trapping the madman with his webs. Spidey lowers the island safely & shuts off the reactor, stopping the brainwashing radiation.This had to be one of my favorite episodes. The specialist shows some of the traits we see so often in criminals today - especially an over-exaggerated sense of self-importance.The series has some cheesy moments, but what series made in that time didn't have them? And the 'cheesy' factor makes it that much more fun to watch now, almost 40 years after it was made.