2007's Spider-Man 3 features a performance of the song by a marching band at a public rally celebrating Spider-Man. Both films also feature some version of the song at the very end of the credits: the 2002 adaptation featured the original 1967 recording while the 2004 film had a re-recording by Michael Bublé (also featured on the film's soundtrack). The 20 film adaptations have featured characters as buskers performing the song Jayce Bartok and Elyse Dinh respectively. The song's opening lines,īecame almost as synonymous with the character as his costume. The lyrics were written by Academy Award winner Paul Francis Webster, while the music was composed by Bob Harris. Main article: Spider-Man theme songThe theme song of the show has become a popular standard. Bakshi also provided fans with the first origin story for the character ever presented on TV, the aptly-titled "The Origin Of Spider-Man," which used entire chunks of Stan Lee's dialogue, not from the hero's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15, published in August 1962, but instead from a drastically updated retelling in Spectacular Spider-Man #1, titled "In The Beginning," which was published in July 1968, only a few months before the episode was aired. But while the reduced budget took its toll, Bakshi tried to delve further into Peter Parker's everyday life at college as a soft-spoken student, such as where he tries out for the football team, in "Criminals In The Clouds," only to fail miserably, and actually becomes a star pitcher for the baseball team in "Diamond Dust." Peter's romantic life also began to take shape as he started dating a variety of women who were either concealing secrets or found themselves angrily waiting for him while Spider-Man saved the city from certain destruction. In addition, the episodes adopted a darker tone with darkly colored settings, psychedelic images, and atmospheric music. By Season 2 new drawings of the costume showed an 8 legged spider, but reused footage from Season 1 maintained season one's error. The spider on his costume (both front and back) was depicted with only 6 legs. An error on Spider-Man's costume appeared through Season 1. This cost cutting is most apparent in the third season with two episodes re-using almost the entire footage from two Rocket Robin Hood episodes as well as remaking previous episodes with minimal changes. Season 2 and 3Īfter Grantray-Lawrence went bankrupt the second and third seasons were produced at a dramatically reduced budget by Krantz Films under Ralph Bakshi. Character movement was also kept to a minimum, though there was (arguably) more character movement here than in other Marvel-themed projects, such as The Marvel Superheroes.
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Additionally, the series also relied upon re-used stock animation from one episode to the next, stock animation which included everything from Spider-Man swinging across the New York City skyline, to Peter Parker stripping off his white dress shirt to reveal his supersuit (and putting on his mask) during his hidden transformations into the costumed superhero. In order to be more cost-effective, given the limited budget for the show, Spider-Man's costume for this series only has webbed areas on his head, arms and boots the rest of his costume is plain (save for the spiders on his chest and back).
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The Ralph Bakshi-helmed Seasons 2 and 3, however, almost entirely eliminated villains from the comic book as a cost-cutting measure, choosing to instead have Spider-Man face generic green skinned magical villains and monsters, thereby enabling re-use of stock footage from Rocket Robin Hood, another animated cartoon TV show Bakshi produced. Season 1 contained mostly stories involving classic Spider-Man villains from the comic book series, whose captures were often punctuated by a note signed "your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man." Character creator Stan Lee served as story consultant for this season of the show. Jonah Jameson and shyly romancing Betty Brant over the reception desk, while Peter was often being called into action as his crime-fighting alter-ego. The first season of the show dealt primarily with Peter working at the Daily Bugle as a teenage freelance photographer, thereby capturing his relationship with the gruff, demanding J. Jonah Jameson views him as a criminal, and he is continually writing front page headlines declaring him as such. He decides to become a crime-fighting, costumed superhero all the while dealing with his personal problems and the insecurities resulting from being a teenager. The series revolves around the scientific-minded teenager Peter Parker who, after being bitten by a radioactive spider, develops amazing strength and other spider-like powers.
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