theultimatemarvelunivers This may contain spoilers. I'd give it a five. The first season is cheesy, but I really recommend it to Spider-Man fans like me. Season 2-3 they got a new writer. This was the guy who wrote Rocket Robin-hood. In my opinion, he should stuck to that, because season 2 started out great! Even better than season 1. I think season 2 is prequel to season 1 because the first episode starts out with a spectacular origin of Spider-Man! Episode 2 we are ACTUALLY introduced to Kingpin. Episode 3 we get a made up villain who's a little goofy, but all in all it's a fun episode that's great for Spidey fans. Episode 4 is where it gets bad. Spidey fights a mole man underground. And it basically goes downhill from there as he even goes to space. Season 3 isn't any better, one villain is defeated by being turned into ice cream! No joke. Still, worth a watch.

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.

EyeDunno I grew up watching this series in the early 1970s, and I'm happy that someone finally placed them onto DVDs. The set of 6 discs is rather deep, with all the episodes filling the DVDs. It's rather thin on extras. But there are what, 3 hours per disc? And the episodes are in chronological order, from the first to the final episode. Some of the episodes weren't digitally remastered, as most seem to have been, but heck, when I compare them to the VHS tapes I used to purchase at comic book shows where the tapes were recorded from UHF stations yielding poor reception, I won't complain. I'm just glad they're here. For the price, it's plenty of bang for the buck.As for the episodes, Ralph Bakshi took over as producer midway through the run of the original episodes (his cartoons can be found about midway through the third DVD). Reading through postings on the net, people have said that Bakshi took over and operations moved from Canada to the US when it was cheaper then to produce the animation in the states... and some staff cutting was done while the episodes were still cranked out at a good pace. Hence, people claim, a good bit of regurgitation of characters and plot lines increased. FYI, the Canadian episodes had Spidey webbing in clear skies, while the Bakshi episodes introduced eerie, watercolored skies. I'm a visual guy, and love the vibrant tones. Plus, it seems as though the music picked up a lot with the change. I just "dig" the way the music sounded. You can even hear a musician yelp every now and then in some jam sessions. So, I can't go Bakshi bashing. Usually, it's the networks that trim budgets, and Bakshi, I feel, had to make due. He did the best he could, I think, and I bet that if the budget had been fat, Bakshi would have had the animators take time and add depth and detail.