Spider-Man: The New Animated Series 2-Disc Box Set DVD

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series picks up the story of Peter Parker as a college freshman at Empire State University, balancing his developing relationship with his longtime crush Mary Jane Watson, his work as a freelance newspaper photographer, and the ongoing demands of his secret life as Spider-Man defending New York City from a rotating series of street-level and metahuman threats. The show plays as a 13-episode CGI series, with each story balancing Peter's college-life subplots with the central web-slinging stakes.

What stands out is the visual register and the more grounded approach to the franchise. The CGI animation gives New York a sleek metropolis quality, the action choreography handles wall-crawling and web-slinging with confident kineticism, and the writing sits the show in the early-college sweet spot between the high-school-aged versions of the franchise and the adult-Spider-Man stories that came later. The villains lean toward fresh adversaries rather than the familiar rogues' gallery, and the season-arc structure pays off in the multi-part finale.

It aired on MTV during the network's brief run of original animated programming for older audiences, reaching the audience that wanted the Spider-Man franchise told with a college-age register and a stylized animated polish. The appeal lands for fans of franchise variations on the source character, of CGI superhero animation from the early 2000s, and of the kind of single-season series that earned its limited run with focused storytelling.

Episodes that lean into heart include "The Party" with its origin-energy first impression, "Keeping Secrets" for its identity-stakes plot, "Heroes And Villains" for its franchise-favorite turn, "Royal Scam" for its character-revealing centerpiece, and "Mind Games: Part 1" for its season-finale stakes. The series finale "Mind Games: Part 2" closes the run on a fittingly multi-part note. This collection gathers 13 episodes across 2 DVDs, the complete Spider-Man: The New Animated Series run preserved on disc.