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Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends 3-Disc Box Set DVD
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends teams the Marvel hero Spider-Man with his fellow college-aged super-friends Iceman and Firestar to form an apartment-sharing crime-fighting trio operating from their secret base in their shared off-campus apartment in New York City. The team takes on threats from across the Marvel rogues' gallery while balancing their college coursework and the everyday challenges of being young heroes living together. The show plays as a 1980s NBC animated action series across multiple seasons.
What stands out is the team-up structure and the integration of Spider-Man's existing rogues' gallery with proper team-action storytelling. The animation handles fluid web-slinging combat and the ice-and-fire-themed action sequences with the visual ambition of its era, the writing trusts younger viewers with both team-coordinated combat plotting and the everyday-college-life subplots, and the supporting cast of guest Marvel heroes who appear across the run gives the show its wider Marvel-universe connection. The recurring secret-base structure gives the show its dependable home-base anchor.
It aired on NBC during the network's early-1980s Saturday morning programming, reaching the audience that wanted superhero team-up storytelling with both proper Marvel-universe respect and kid-friendly stakes. The appeal lands for franchise fans collecting every animated chapter, for fans of vintage Saturday-morning superhero programming, and for collectors of Marvel television animation history.
Episodes that lean into the show's particular charm include the early-season pilot stretch with its origin-energy first impressions, the franchise-favorite guest-Marvel-hero appearances that expand the show's universe, the recurring rogues'-gallery confrontations across multiple seasons, the holiday-themed entries that punctuate the run, and the closing-arc episodes that carry the foundational team-up Spider-Man chapter forward. This collection gathers the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends run preserved on disc, ready for repeat viewing alongside the wider Spider-Man animated tradition.
Stars: Dan Gilvezan, Kathy Garver, Frank Welker
More info: IMDB, Wikipedia
24 Total Episodes on 3 DVDs:
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep1 - The Triumph Of The Green Goblin
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep2 - The Crime Of All Centuries
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep3 - The Fantastic Mr. Frump
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep4 - Sunfire
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep5 - Swarm
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep6 - 7 Little Superheroes
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep7 - Videoman
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep8 - The Prison Plot
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep9 - Spidey Goes Hollywood
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep10 - The Vengeance Of Loki
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep11 - Knights & Demons
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep12 - Pawns Of The Kingpin
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S1 Ep13 - Quest Of The Red Skull
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S2 Ep1 - The Origin Of Iceman
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S2 Ep2 - Along Came Spidey
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S2 Ep3 - A Firestar Is Born
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S3 Ep1 - Spider-Man: Unmasked!
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S3 Ep2 - The Bride Of Dracula!
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S3 Ep3 - The Education Of A Superhero
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S3 Ep4 - Attack Of The Arachnoid
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S3 Ep5 - Origin Of The Spider-Friends
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S3 Ep6 - Spidey Meets The Girl From Tomorrow
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S3 Ep7 - The X-Men Adventure
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends S3 Ep8 - Mission: Save The Guardstar
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