From Saturday Morning Cartoon to a place in the MCU, this is Spider-Man’s on-screen journey.
With the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming this past Friday, it is easy to think of the new movie as just another installment in an already overdone franchise (assuming you haven’t seen the new film). So far though, the film seems to be critically acclaimed widely as one of the best Spider-Man films, and possibly one of the best Marvel films, yet. The charm of Peter Parker in his high school sophomore days with his goofy friend, boyish crush, and desire to save the world and keep his youth intact is appealing. But how does it line up with what we have previously seen from the Spider-Man’s former on-screen portrayals?
1967: ABC’s Spider-Man, The Animated Series
Spider-Man’s first appearance on screen was through the ABC animated TV series Spider-Man. In this show, Spider-Man was voiced by Paul Soles. Though it only aired new episodes from 1967-1970, it is perhaps most clearly remembered for its creation of the Spider-Man theme song that we know today. Premiering nearly 5 years after the release of the first Spider-Man comics, the series stayed mostly true to the original story. Teenage Peter Parker is bitten by a spider and attains spider-like abilities.
After discovering this, Peter decides to use his powers to fight crime. Meanwhile, he deals with the death of his uncle, working for the Daily Bugle, and being a teenager. However, according to a book of critical essays on Spider-Man called Web-Spinning Heroics by Robert Weiner and Robert Peaslee, they write that though the origins are the same and the adventures similar, much of the characteristics of the Spider-Man character from the original comics were not apparent in this animated series. Spider-Man took on the same aesthetics and tone of most any other Saturday morning action cartoon during that time.
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