Notice at 5:54 the biker calls him "four eyed." In the comics, Peter wore glasses before becoming Spider-Man, but they didn't put that into the cartoon, yet the line remained.
The origin story was held back becasue Stan Lee didn't think any network, ABC or otherwise would allow the mention of murder and killing on Saturday Morning Television out of the gate, and would have more of a chance if the show was a hit and got a second season. This episode is more of an adaptation to the 10 page story "In The Beginning" that at the time, just appeared in Spectaculr Spider-Man #1.
One part that always bugged me about Spideys origin is the robbery scene. Why the heck is a cop asking a normal citizen(who he thinks is a wrestler with above average strength but still) to stop a crook? That's completely insane even for 1962 I think. This is where Sam Raimis movie made more sense since instead of the cop asking Peter to stop the crook, it's the scummy wrestling manager who cheats Peter of the money he was promised for winning. Makes waay more sense & ultimately makes Unlce Ben's death even more tragic, because he COULD have stopped it, but his anger got in the way. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
This is where Ralph Bakshi and Krantz films took over the series. The animation company from the first season (Grantway & Lawrence) went bankrupt. You can clearly see the change in the art style.
Ralph Bakshi was always one of my favorite animation artists. Now, we get to see Bakshi unleashed with his trippy, psychedelic creations. This was just a taste of what was to come. Later we'd get "Fritz The Cat", the rotoscope Lord Of The Rings", as well as the animated "The Hobbit". Amazing stuff, all...
0:31 Even though I’m familiar with most superhero origin stories, I don’t mind seeing a different take or interpretation of a superhero origin. Weather is the Nicholas Hammond tv Spider-Man or Tobey Maguire’ s Spider-Man or Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man I’m always entertained.
All versions of Spider-Man have slightly different origins, but the concept is pretty much the same. It's why I was happy the MCU Spider-Man never had an origin story. We know it already. There was no need to spend a mess of screen time retelling it. Unless, of course, you consider all six films he was in to be an origin story. None of the three Spider-Men in film over the past 20 years spent much time on the web shooters. Tobey had organic ones, Andrew had the stuff from Osborn, and Tom was shown glancing at a web formula once. I think the answer is limited screen time. I assume this episode had the budget for the new animations of Spider-Man doing his thing. If you had to go to the bathroom at some point during this episode; don't worry. You'll see the animations again. And again. And again...
Actually, I didn't mind Tobey McGuire's natural spinnerets, because if the kid could create something as advanced as web-shooters, he'd've made millions patenting them. It made narrative sense to me.
There was a point in the comics where Peter desperately needed money, so he went to a chemical company to sell them his web formula. He demonstrated how strong it was, but when it melted after half an hour or so, they decided to pass. He tried to tell them he could alter the formula to make it permanent, but by then they weren't listening any more.
As a child, I disliked seasons 2 and 3 because they strayed so far from the comics. As an adult, I love Seasons 2 and 3; I can't wait for your "Revolt In The Fifth Dimension" review.
Sam Rani's reasoning for the organic webbing never made sense to me. A man that can climb walls and all his other superpowers he was willing to take but a science geek with a major in chemistry and minor in engineering (plus a possible instinctual understanding of the chemicals needed to make webbing) creating what amounts to an arm-mounted silly string device was the hill he wouldn't die on. Stan created the character of Spider-Man but like with Batman and Bob Kane/Bill Finger Ditko created the costume. Stan turned down Kirby's design because he looked "too heroic" and he was creating a character with spider powers in a horror comic. I've never seen Kirby's design but I still think he made the right move.
I have to agree. For lack of a better word, I think Kirby's style was too angular for this character. He flows like liquid. I never liked Ditko's style, but it does fit the character better. I was delighted when John Romita Sr. took over. He had just the right balance in his drawing.
Generally Spider-Man creation is attributed to Lee & Ditko. I never heard of the Kirby thing till Irv mentioned it & judging by what he said, it seems like a revisisonist statement. With the way Kirby felt about Marvel,he would've been VERY vocal of how Spidey was one of his creations
You are from the States, and I am sure your explanation of the usage of "mad" by Peter is correct if the writers are as well, but in Canada, as well as Britain, and other commonwealth nations, "mad" is still used to mean "crazy" to this day (at the very least, it still was when I was a teenager in the 90s, and moved to the States
Thanks for the info. Yes, in the states it fell out of use in that way. Somehow it's not surprising that the rest of the English-speaking world stuck with it and the US wandered off somewhere else.
@@dwashbur Please don't think that the cultures that still use "mad" as crazy are insensitive to mental illness. Here the watchword to avoid isn't "mad" but "r--d" to describe mental illness (I don't know if that word is clear to you, but it just may not have been in use in the States-I live here now, and I can't recall hearing it"
It never crossed my mind. I agree about the R word, I don't use it and I've been known to chastise those who do (mostly on Twitter where I can be as big a jerk as I want to be). There are many terms for mental illness and most of them either started out as, or still are, slurs. I like "neurodivergent" myself because it emphasizes the fact that this is real, there are chemical and other physiological reasons for many of them, and the neurodivergent is a *person* first and mentally ill second.
