SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS (1981 - 1983)

Based on characters appearing in Marvel Comics

Starring: (voices) Hans Conried, Jerry Dexter, George DiCenzo, Alan Dinehart, Walker Edmiston, Michael Evans, Al Fann, June Foray, Kathy Garver, Dan Gilvezan, John Haymer, Sally Julian, Annie Lockhart, Keye Luke, Dennis Marks, Alan Melvin, Shepard Menkin, John Stephenson, Janet Waldo, Frank Welker, William Woodson, Alan Young, Michael Ansara, Marlene Aragon, Michael Bell, Bob Bergen, Susan Blu, William Callaway, Cathy Cavadini, Christopher Collins, Peter Cullen, Stanley Jones, William Marshall, Noelle North, Vic Perrin, Neil Ross, Michael Rye, Marilyn Schreffler, Stan Lee

24 episodes

(TV-Y7 - animated sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

Spider-Man forms a close friendship and alliance with two superheroes, Iceman and Firestar. Together, the group, informally known as "The Spider Friends", battle crime in New York City. Along the way, they not only face Spider-Man's own enemies, but also other major Marvel Comics villians like the Red Skull and Doctor Doom while also meeting other heroes of the Marvel Universe.

season 1 - 

A plane crash turns Norman Osborn back into the Green Goblin, who plans to turn the entire city into goblins. Kraven the Hunter plans to unleash a dinosaur army from the dinosaurs he obtained from the Savage Land. To make matters worse, Kraven also captures Firestar to help hatch his dinosaur eggs. Aunt May's unlucky friend Mr. Frump is given the power to change reality which Doctor Doom uses to his advantage. Firestar falls in love with Sunfire as his uncle Genju plans to hatch a fire monster. An irradiated meteor turns a group of bees into the villain Swarm, who turns Iceman, Firestar, and the rest of the city into bees. Only Spider-Man is immune. Can he find a way to stop Swarm from taking over the world? Chameleon schemes to destroy his most hated enemies: the Spider-Friends, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Sub-Mariner and Shanna the Jungle Queen, by summoning them to his castle on Wolf Island and taking them down one by one. Electro creates a villain called Videoman from an arcade machine. Magneto holds the visitors of an abandoned prison hostage, demanding the release of his Brotherhood of Mutants (consisting of Blob, Toad, and Mastermind). Mysterio forces a movie director named Sam Blockbuster to con Spider-Man into starring in a Spider-Man movie. Bruce Banner appears and ends up turning into the Hulk when it comes to a part where Mysterio uses a robot version of Hulk in a scene. Loki masquerades as his half-brother Thor, and attacks New York City. When Iceman is sent to Asgard, he is saved from Surtur by the Ice Giant Zerona who Iceman helps in fighting off Ymir. Spider-Man and Black Knight team up to battle Mordred. Kingpin and Doctor Faustus use a mind control device to force Captain America to commit crimes, who convinces Iceman to follow him. Red Skull kidnaps Hiawatha Smith and the Spider-Friends so that they will not interfere in his plot to start World War III. 

season 2 - 

Videoman returns, and Iceman retells his origin as he fears he is losing his mutant powers. In a brief flashback clip, Iceman recalls meeting Professor Xavier and the original members of the X-Men (Angel, Beast, Marvel-Girl, Cyclops). Iceman and Firestar attend an X-Men reunion featuring Cyclops, Angel, and its latest members Storm and Wolverine (who oddly speaks with an Australian accent). Firestar recalls her origins, dealing with a bully named Bonnie, and being recruited into the X-Men where they fought Magneto and a Sentinel. After that, the Juggernaut crashes the party in an effort to destroy his stepbrother Professor X. Shocker injures Aunt May, and Spider-Man recounts how he acquired his powers and dealing with the burglar who shot Uncle Ben. 

season 3 - 

Sandman learns that Spider-Man is Peter Parker. Bobby and Angelica figure out how to make his identity a secret again. Firestar is kidnapped by Dracula. Spider-Man and Iceman go to Transylvania to rescue her, fighting both a Werewolf and Frankenstein's Monster. A game addict is transformed into the new Videoman who decides to be a superhero while the Gamesman seeks world domination by electronically hypnotizing the public. After the Spider-Friends thwart Scorpion, a chemical scientist named Zoltan Amadeus recreates Spider-Man's powers with a spider serum. He frames Spider-Man for his crimes which leads to his arrest. Matt Murdock appears as Spider-Man's lawyer. When Spider-Man ends up on Rikers Island, Scorpion stages a jailbreak to take out Spider-Man, but is defeated. After Zoltan mutates into the Arachnoid, Iceman and Firestar clear Spider-Man's name by the time he defeats Scorpion and are given the antidote to return Zoltan to normal. Stan Lee narrates how Spider-Man, Iceman, and Firestar first teamed-up to fight the Beetle when he targeted Tony Stark's latest invention. Spidey falls in love with a stranded girl from the future, a girl named Ariel, whose spaceship has been stolen by Doctor Octopus. After Doctor Octopus is defeated, Iceman and Firestar learn that Ariel and her brother Bartow are sick. In the hospital, it is revealed that they lack immune systems. Spider-Man helps them return to the future, but Ariel's and Bartow's father returns Spider-Man to the present because he carries germs from "Old Earth". The Spider-Friends visit the X-Mansion, teaming with the X-Men (Cyclops, Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird, Sprite, and Professor X) and battle Cyberiad. He was once Firestar's old boyfriend Nathan Price who wass changed into a Tharok-like cyborg in an accident caused when A.I.M. Agents raided his laboratory. Buzz Mason of S.H.I.E.L.D. hires the Spider-Friends to stop a mutant named Lightwave, who has the power to control and manipulate light energy. She turns out to be Iceman's younger half-sister, Aurora Dante. Though it is said that she has turned traitor and is targeting the GuardStar satellite, someone is actually mind-controlling her.

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