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I have purchased several bootleg sets from ebay over the years with mixed quality. These originals just rule. The quality is impressive. This set can take you and your children back to a time when cartoons did not have such adult themes and violence. The background music from Ray Ellis is so underrated. I found a cd by a band called Volume out of Canada who has faithfully recreated a lot of this music with a little more intensity. I encourage any to do a google search on this band to hear the samples. Anyway my children and I watch this all of the time. Now if Jonny Sokko can just be released...
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IF YOUR A SPIDERMAN MAN FAN LIKE I AM THEN YOU MUST GET THIS DVD SET!YOU GET ALL 52 EPISODES IN FULL RESTORED COLOR AND THE SOUND IS GREAT!THE PACKAGE IS ALSO VERY ATTRACTIVE.....GO GET IT NOW...SPIDERMAN FAN....A MUST FOR YOUR COLLECTION!!!!
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I LIKE WATCHING ALL THE EPISODES BECAUSE I'VE ONLY SEEN A FEW OF THEM! SPIDER-MAN IS SUPER COOL AND I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE THE 60'S SPIDER-MAN CARTOONS.
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With all the classic tv shows or movies being digitally restored, who would think that the 1967 SPIDER-MAN cartoon series would get the restoration/DVD treatment. Most people remember the cartoon series based on the theme song alone and some may see this nothing less than nostalgic. Once one sees that the animation is repetitive and at times inconsistant, one might find it hard to watch. However, this is a very minor complaint and the repeat scenes of Spider-Man swinging through the streets of NYC captured the character's essence of his super powers and probably served as the background for what is seen in the Sam Raimi/Tobey Mcguire films. Also,this is is a pretty good DVD package (a 6 volume DVD package of all 52 episodes restored by Buena Vista Television...a Disney Company). Over the years since the show ended its Saturday morning network run on ABC in 1970, it was shown sporadically on syndicated tv markets. Then, bootleg tapes of this series can be bought at various sci-fi and comic book conventions (most likely taped from those syndicated airings). However, only a few shows could only be obtained. Now the complete series is available because of the advent of DVD and the digital restoration craze. The print and sound are extraordinary making up for the limited and repetitive animation. Also, the segments are just plain fun, straight foward, self-contained adventure stories without any melodrama or soap opera-type continuation storylines that bog down so many superhero comics today. The consistant standout characters in these stories are (besides Peter Parker/Spider-Man), the hilarious J Jonah Jameson (who blames everything on Spider-Man in every episode), Miss Brant- Jameson's secretary (and voice of reason) and Spider-Man's staunch supporter, and an array of cool villians Spider-Man has to battle with (Doc Ock, The Green Goblin, The Rhino, The Sandman etc). Some of the later episodes are produced by animating producer Ralph Bakshi (FRITZ THE CAT, AMERICAN POP, LORD OF THE RINGS) and these stories are a little darker in mood and animation style which includes Spider-Man's origin story. These stories seem a little mature for a kiddie cartoon. Lastly, one forgets that besides the memorable theme song, SPIDER-MAN '67 had very excellent jazzy background music to set up the mood of Spider-Man's adventures. As in the animation, this too was repetitive, but very effective because the music is so good and memorable and probably some of the best music ever produced for a so-called Saturday morning cartoon show. Overall SPIDER-MAN '67 stands alone as a classic animation televsion show because of the writing, the music, the amimation style (though limited and repetitive) and of course it's classic theme song which virtually everyone can sing.
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I was 8yrs old when it came out on tv. Now I can see them on DVD.
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