[upbeat music] Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can.
And his 1974 live action debut in the children's program, The Electric Company, with a not so memorable theme song.
[upbeat music] Spider-Man, where are you coming from? Spider-Man, nobody knows who you are.
Spidey was rapidly becoming a cultural icon, but Stan Lee wanted to see him on the silver screen.
The producer of the '67 cartoon pitched a musical fantasy picture starring Mick Jagger or Elton John as the web singer.
Lee tried selling a big budget spectacle with Henry Winkler as the star, and then there was the efforts of a rock promoter whose deal with Marvel only produced the rock and roll audio adventure, The Amazing Spider-Man: From Beyond the Grave.
[upbeat music] High like a spider, love like a man.
Amazing.
The feature length pilot technically holds the distinction of being the first Spidey film, as it was released outside of the United States as a film.
This was followed by Spider-Man Strikes Back and The Dragon's Challenge, where multiple episodes were stitched together to make movies for international audiences.
Outside Peter Parker, Aunt May, and newsman J. Jonah Jameson, the show has no other characters or plots from the comics.
But in terms of faithfulness, it was far closer than the other live action TV series, Supaidaman.
[upbeat music] [singing in foreign language] Supaidaman.
Marvel licensed the hero to the Toei company in 1978, giving them free rein to make the brand popular in Japan, which is why the show has virtually nothing to do with the comic.
With not Peter Parker bestowed with powers by an alien from the planet Spider, granting him the ability to operate Leopardon, a 200-foot mech, the precursor to Toei's Super Sentai franchise.
They joined forces like the Power Rangers.
One episode was released exclusively as a 24-minute film, therefore making it an official Spider-Man movie as well.
[upbeat music] Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can.
And his 1974 live action debut in the children's program, The Electric Company, with a not so memorable theme song.
[upbeat music] Spider-Man, where are you coming from? Spider-Man, nobody knows who you are.
Spidey was rapidly becoming a cultural icon, but Stan Lee wanted to see him on the silver screen.
The producer of the '67 cartoon pitched a musical fantasy picture starring Mick Jagger or Elton John as the web singer.
Lee tried selling a big budget spectacle with Henry Winkler as the star, and then there was the efforts of a rock promoter whose deal with Marvel only produced the rock and roll audio adventure, The Amazing Spider-Man: From Beyond the Grave.
[upbeat music] High like a spider, love like a man.
Amazing.
The feature length pilot technically holds the distinction of being the first Spidey film, as it was released outside of the United States as a film.
This was followed by Spider-Man Strikes Back and The Dragon's Challenge, where multiple episodes were stitched together to make movies for international audiences.
Outside Peter Parker, Aunt May, and newsman J. Jonah Jameson, the show has no other characters or plots from the comics.
But in terms of faithfulness, it was far closer than the other live action TV series, Supaidaman.
[upbeat music] [singing in foreign language] Supaidaman.
Marvel licensed the hero to the Toei company in 1978, giving them free rein to make the brand popular in Japan, which is why the show has virtually nothing to do with the comic.
With not Peter Parker bestowed with powers by an alien from the planet Spider, granting him the ability to operate Leopardon, a 200-foot mech, the precursor to Toei's Super Sentai franchise.
They joined forces like the Power Rangers.
One episode was released exclusively as a 24-minute film, therefore making it an official Spider-Man movie as well.
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