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Search complete. 15 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Spider-Man".
Oct 26, 2026
Will PrestonHOST
We've covered this guy before, I swear.
Will PrestonHOST
It must have been a Japanese Spider-Man episode.
Rob HaldenHOST
It was Japanese Spider-Man, yeah, definitely.
Rob HaldenHOST
It's an interesting...
Rob HaldenHOST
It's a distinctive name, Pelk.
Rob HaldenHOST
Oh, true,
Will PrestonHOST
yeah.
Will PrestonHOST
Toei was legally permitted to wildly overhaul origins, names and premises to fit domestic tastes, as of course we saw with Japanese Spider-Man.
Will PrestonHOST
And it's like, that's not Batman.
Rob HaldenHOST
Well, like when we looked at the Toei Spider-Man, you know, they've got to change Spider-Man to fit the region.
Will PrestonHOST
Fit the region.
Will PrestonHOST
Italians love guns, apparently.
Brett BohmHOST
And it wasn't just happening in Turkey in the 70s.
Brett BohmHOST
In Japan in 1978, the Toei Company produced a 24-minute Spider-Man short film which is typically just referred to as Japanese Spider-Man.
Brett BohmHOST
It was a spinoff, actually, of a Japanese live-action Spider-Man TV show that aired on network television around the same time, in 1978 and 1979.
Brett BohmHOST
And this movie is a friggin' blast.
Brett BohmHOST
The colors really pop.
Brett BohmHOST
The Spider-Man suit looks amazing.
Brett BohmHOST
Japanese Spider-Man, it rocks.
Brett BohmHOST
It's so fun.
Count KreepyheadHOST
I'll take it.
speaker_0VOICE_ACTOR
You know, fellas, once upon a time, I went to Japan and I said to myself, golly gee, how neat would it be if there were a Japanese Spider-Man?
Count KreepyheadHOST
There is.
speaker_0VOICE_ACTOR
And that's why Excelsior.
Count KreepyheadHOST
He was like every two or three years, Marvel Legends will put out a figure that I never thought they'd put out.
Count KreepyheadHOST
like Chris Starr or they're doing a Croyer is like their one.
Count KreepyheadHOST
But one of them was Japanese Spider-Man or in the show Spider-Man.
Count KreepyheadHOST
So I was like really excited.
GooHOST
Tobey Maguire.
GooHOST
The guy from Japanese Spider-Man from 1972.
MacHOST
[laughs]
GooHOST
'77? There was a '70s Spider-Man.
Brian TerranovaGUEST
I mean, they have spider ham in the movie, but when they visit spider ham in the comics and you go to his world, you get to see how vastly different these worlds really are.
Brian TerranovaGUEST
Uh, so something like that would have been great having Nicholas Hammond in there or, um, Even the Japanese Spider-Man, he wasn't in the cartoons, right? He was only in the comics, I think.
James McLeanHOST
Yeah,
Brian TerranovaGUEST
they used a different Japanese character, that's right.
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LarryHOST
We definitely got to get the MSA from hell, Spidey, you know, with his mecha.
LarryHOST
By the way, guys, I watched too much Japanese Spider-Man.
LarryHOST
With his machine gun and his –
SethGUEST
Wasn't it pronounced like Spuderman or something like that?
AnnaHOST
But I'm pretty sure Toho is also where we get, um...
AnnaHOST
Oh, where is it? Where is it? The, the Spider-Man.
AnnaHOST
Uh, the Supaidaman.
JohnHOST
Mm.
AnnaHOST
Right? Is that them? Am I just making shit up today?