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===Season One===
===Season One===
The first season features Spider-Man as a high school junior, when he first gets a job at the Daily Bugle, meets [[Mary Jane Watson]] and faces his classic (revamped) rogues gallery for the first time such as [[Vulture (comics)|Vulture]], the [[Enforcers (comics)|Enforcers]], [[Electro (Marvel Comics)|Electro]], [[Lizard (comics)|Lizard]], [[Sandman (Marvel Comics)|Sandman]], [[Rhino (comics)|Rhino]], [[Hammerhead (comics)|Hammerhead]], [[Doctor Octopus]], [[Green Goblin]], [[Black Cat (comics)|Black Cat]] and [[Chameleon (comics)|Chameleon]]. A revamped [[Tombstone (comics)|Tombstone]] appears to serve as a primary villain of the series orchestrating crime in the New York City and the creation of some of the villains to distract Spider-Man from that crime. Spider-Man's [[Symbiote (comics)|symbiote]] black suit also makes an appearance that eventually leads to the emergence of [[Venom (Eddie Brock)|Venom]].
The first season features Spider-Man as a high school junior. It also shows Peter Parker and his alias Spider-Man he first gets a job at the Daily Bugle run by [[J. Jonah Jameson]], meets [[Mary Jane Watson]], and faces his classic (revamped) rogues gallery for the first time such as [[Vulture (comics)|Vulture]], [[Hammerhead (comics)|Hammerhead]], [[Enforcers (comics)|Enforcers]] [[Ox (comics)|Ox]], [[Montana (comics)|Montana]] & [[Fancy Dan]], [[Electro (Marvel Comics)|Electro]], [[Lizard (comics)|Lizard]], [[Sandman (Marvel Comics)|Sandman]], [[Rhino (comics)|Rhino]], [[Doctor Octopus]], [[Black Cat (comics)|Black Cat]] and [[Chameleon (comics)|Chameleon]]. A revamped [[Tombstone (comics)|Tombstone]] appears to serve as a primary villain of the series orchestrating crime in the New York City and the creation of some of the villains to distract Spider-Man from that crime with the help of [[Green Goblin|Norman Osborn]]. Montana becomes [[Shocker (comics)|Shocker]] and [[Harry Osborn]] takes the "Gobulin Green" serum that leads to his other personality as the [[Green Goblin]]. Spider-Man's [[Symbiote (comics)|symbiote]] black suit also makes an appearance that eventually leads to [[Venom (Eddie Brock)|Eddie Brock]] becoming [[Venom (Eddie Brock)|Venom]].


===Season Two===
===Season Two===

Revision as of 17:06, 5 July 2008

The Spectacular Spider-Man
The Intertitle of Spectacular Spiderman‎
StarringJosh Keaton
Peter MacNicol
James Arnold Taylor
Lacey Chabert
Vanessa Marshall
Deborah Strang
Daran Norris
Dee Bradley Baker
Benjamin Diskin
Cree Summer
Country of originUSA
No. of episodes26 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time30 Minuten
Original release
NetworkThe CW (Kids WB!) March 8, 2008 - May 17, 2008
The CW (The CW4Kids) May 24, 2008 - present
ReleaseMarch 8, 2008 –
present

The Spectacular Spider-Man (entitled The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series) is the most recent American animated series based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It premiered on March 8, 2008[1] during the Kids' WB! programming block of The CW. It is currently airing on the Kids' WB! successor, The CW4Kids.

Premise

The Spectacular Spider-Man is the latest in the line of Spider-Man animated series, which include The Amazing Spider-Man (1967–1969), Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981–1983), Spider-Man (1994–1998), and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003). The series is based on the original Spider-Man comics created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko but references many other Spider-Man sources, such as the film trilogy and the "Ultimate Spider-Man" comics.[2] With Peter Parker starting off as a high school teenager, the new show has aspects of teenage angst in a modern world with modern social tools such as cell phones/text messaging along with pseudo-science to create the various super-villains. The program's tone is a combination of cartoon action, drama and comedy. In early episodes, Peter Parker begins rethinking his identity as Spider-Man and takes a dark tone at moments, but quickly switches back to light hearted high school comedy and awkward situations.

Each season of the series is set during a semester of Peter's high school year with Season One running from September to Thanksgiving and Season Two from December to March.[3]

Plot

Main article: List of Spectacular Spider-Man episodes

Season One

The first season features Spider-Man as a high school junior. It also shows Peter Parker and his alias Spider-Man he first gets a job at the Daily Bugle run by J. Jonah Jameson, meets Mary Jane Watson, and faces his classic (revamped) rogues gallery for the first time such as Vulture, Hammerhead, Enforcers Ox, Montana & Fancy Dan, Electro, Lizard, Sandman, Rhino, Doctor Octopus, Black Cat and Chameleon. A revamped Tombstone appears to serve as a primary villain of the series orchestrating crime in the New York City and the creation of some of the villains to distract Spider-Man from that crime with the help of Norman Osborn. Montana becomes Shocker and Harry Osborn takes the "Gobulin Green" serum that leads to his other personality as the Green Goblin. Spider-Man's symbiote black suit also makes an appearance that eventually leads to Eddie Brock becoming Venom.

Season Two

One of the plot lines for the second season will be a gang war.[4]

New characters that will be introduced in the second season include Molten Man,[5] Roderick Kingsley,[6] Kraven the Hunter,[7] Calypso and Silver Sable.[8] There will also be the return of first season characters including Green Goblin,[6] Black Cat, Chameleon, Vulture, Sandman, Rhino, Electro, Venom, Tombstone and Hammerhead.[9] Doctor Octopus is also likely to return. Other first season characters like Chameleon's associates Quentin Beck and Phineas Mason will also return but in a different form, as Mysterio and the Tinkerer respectively.[3] The former is set to appear in the premiere episode of the new season,[10] although a broadcast date is not known at this time.

Season Three

According to Greg Weisman, Spider-Man villains Hobgoblin and Scorpion have been pencilled in for the yet to be commissioned third season.[11]

Production

The Spectacular Spider-Man was announced by Kids' WB Senior Vice President and General Manager Betsy McGowen and Sony Pictures Television Co-President Zack Van Amburg in March 2007. The series is produced by Culver Entertainment. It premiered on March 8, 2008 on Kids' WB on The CW, one week after it was originally scheduled to premiere.

According to writer Greg Weisman the timeline of the original Spider-Man story-arcs, which the series is based on, was condensed in order to move the series forward and include such classic and important characters such as Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, and Harry Osborn.

The series is structured into multiple small loose "arcs" for DVD releases; the first season consists of four such arcs, beginning with a three-episode arc that introduces Dr. Connors and his experimentations with Lizard DNA and Peter's time with Empire State University before he joins the Daily Bugle, the second three-episode story centred on Norman Osborn's experiments and the villains they create for the Big Man, the third three-episode arc follows the mysterious Green Goblin and Harry Osborn's use of "Globulin Green" and a final four-part adventure featuring Spider-Man's symbiote costume.

The show's creators are striving to reach 65 episodes.[12]

Hasbro released a toy line of action figures in March 2008.[13]

Characters

Main article: List of Spectacular Spider-Man characters

DVD

The first DVD for the show has been announced and will be entitled "Attack of the Lizard"; it will include the first three episodes edited together to form a stand-alone story and released on September 9, 2008[14].

According to the Monkeybar tv section of the Hasbro website the second DVD will be entitled "Rise of the Supervillains".[15]

Aside from DVDs for each story arc there has been mention of a season boxset.[7]

Crew

Members of the crew at 2007 ComicCon. Greg Weisman far right with Victor Cook to his left. Photo: Comiquero.com
  • Greg Weisman - Supervising Producer/Story Editor/Writer
  • Victor Cook - Producer/Supervising Director
  • Diane A Crea - Producer
  • Eric Vesbit - Associate Producer
  • John Diaz - Production Manager
  • Kevin Hopps - Writer
  • Matt Wayne - Writer
  • Andrew Robinson - Writer
  • Randy Jandt - Script Coordinator/Writer's Apprentice/Writer
  • Jennifer Coyle - Director
  • Sean Galloway - Lead Character Designer/ Character Supervisor
  • Jaime Thomason - Voice Director
  • Meagan Healy - Production Art Supervisor
  • Brian G. Smith - Production Art Supervisor
  • Ben Maloney - Production Assistant
  • Sherrian Felix - Production Coordinator
  • Jennifer L. Anderson - Post Production Assistant
  • Sean Herbert - Animation Clerk

References

  1. ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: January 30, 2008
  2. ^ Interview with Greg Weisman (Part 1) by Sean Elliott: March 7, 2008
  3. ^ a b Interview with Greg Weisman (Page 3) by Eric Goldman: June 27, 2008
  4. ^ Interview with Greg Weisman (Page 4) by Eric Goldman: June 27, 2008
  5. ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: June 13, 2008
  6. ^ a b Interview with Greg Weisman (Page 5) by Eric Goldman: June 27, 2008 Cite error: The named reference "ign_page5" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b Interview with Greg Weisman (Page 6) by Eric Goldman: June 27, 2008
  8. ^ Ask Greg (Weisman): June 11, 2008
  9. ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: June 13, 2008
  10. ^ Ask Greg (Weisman): June 19, 2008
  11. ^ Ask Greg (Weisman): June 19, 2008
  12. ^ Ask Greg (Weisman): May 03, 2008
  13. ^ Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: December 2, 2007
  14. ^ DVD news: TSSM - Attack of the Lizard by David Lambert: June 28, 2008
  15. ^ Hasbro Spectacular Spider-Man Trailer: July 1, 2008
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