History WesternAnimation / SpiderMan1967

** In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', several shots in Peter B.'s origin flashbacks and the CreativeClosingCredits homage the infamously memetic poses and screenshots from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'', [[https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/marvel/278172/spider-man-2099-into-the-spider-verse-post-credits-scene-explained including]] a recreation of the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/masturbating-spider-man "And I'm just sitting here" meme]], albeit without the usual masturbation joke. In particular, TheStinger recreates [[spoiler: the "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spider-man-pointing-at-spider-man Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man]]" meme, only with ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 as one of the Spider-Men]].

* LimitedAnimation

* AdaptedOut: For some reason, while Captain George Stacy appears in this series, ''Gwen'' Stacy does not, and she is replaced as George's niece by Mary Jane Watson.

* CompositeCharacter: Mary Jane became Captain George Stacy's niece, presumably to compensate for the absence of Captain Stacy's daughter, Gwen.

** The cartoon version of "The Big Brainwasher" has ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson as Captain Stacy's niece instead of Gwen Stacy.

However odd this cartoon may have been, it's quite popular and not without its fans, who enjoy it for a variety of reasons. It holds the distinction of being the first-ever cartoon to feature the eponymous superhero, not to mention the first-ever medium outside of comic books to do so. (The theme song was a big help, too — it's just as universally associated with Spidey as the John Williams movie theme is with Superman.) A DVD release of the series was issued in 2004, but went out of print after a few years.

However odd this cartoon may have been, it's quite popular and not without its fans, who enjoy it for a variety of reasons. It holds the distinction of being the first-ever cartoon to feature the eponymous superhero, not to mention the first-ever medium outside of comic books to do so. (The theme song was a big help, too.) A DVD release of the series was issued in 2004, but went out of print after a few years.

* ReTool: Grantray-Lawrence Productions, the show's original company, went bankrupt in 1968, forcing them to hand over the series to Creator/RalphBakshi's company. The change is ''very'' evident: More and more generic green-skinned villains began appearing, the show began taking on a DarkerAndEdgier tone akin to the 1970s ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'' series, and the focus was more on Peter's home and school life, including more time at home with Aunt May and more on his life as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, phasing out the ''Daily Bugle'' almost entirely. In truth, there were so many differences from the first season, one would've thought this was a whole new series entirely.

* WholePlotReference: Despite dropping the comics rogues gallery, the Krantz Films series directly adapted several plots from the official comics.

** In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', several shots in Peter B.'s origin flashbacks and the CreativeClosingCredits homage the infamously memetic poses and screenshots from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'', [[https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/marvel/278172/spider-man-2099-into-the-spider-verse-post-credits-scene-explained including]] a recreation of the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/masturbating-spider-man "And I'm just sitting here" meme]], albeit without the usual masturbation joke. In particular, TheStinger recreates [[spoiler: The "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spider-man-pointing-at-spider-man Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man]]" meme]].

* IcePerson: The Plutonians are a race of ice aliens.

Each episode from the first season more or less followed the same basic formula: Something weird happens somewhere in New York, and we see the villain causing it -- usually one from Spidey's classic comic book rogues gallery. [[DaEditor J. Jonah Jameson]], the ''Daily Bugle'' editor, relays the information [[NoIndoorVoice through lots of yelling and fist-pounding]] to ''Bugle'' employees Betty Brant, Jameson's secretary, and Peter Parker, the ''Bugle'''s star photographer. Jameson orders Parker to get pictures. Peter somehow finds out who the attacker is, and goes on the hunt for them as the web-slinging, wall-crawling hero, Spider-Man. Spidey manages to find the villain and defeat them, usually by leaving them AllWebbedUp and with a note that always ended in, "your friendly neighborhood [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Spiderman]]". After an EveryEpisodeEnding of Peter, "Miss Brant" and Jameson discussing the aftermath at the ''Daily Bugle'', the episode ends. Usually each episode consisted of two 15-minute segments, though more than once there was one full-length half-hour segment.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The series adapted the comic story "The Big Brainwasher", which features Mary Jane and Captain Stacy. However, for unknown, Captain Stacy became ''Mary Jane's'' uncle, and Gwen Stacy never appeared in the series.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The series adapted the comic story "The Big Brainwasher", which features Mary Jane and Captain Stacy. However, since Gwen Stacy never appeared in the series, Captain Stacy became ''Mary Jane's'' uncle.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Several of the Krantz Films episodes adapted from the comics had changes made to the story that were understandable.

** The cartoon version of "The Big Brainwasher" has ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson as Captain Stacy's niece, since Gwen Stacy never appeared in the show.

However odd this cartoon may have been, it's quite popular and not without its fans, who enjoy it for a variety of reasons. It holds the distinction of being the first-ever cartoon to feature the eponymous superhero, not to mention the first-ever medium outside of comic books to do so. (The EarWorm theme song was a big help, too.) A DVD release of the series was issued in 2004, but went out of print after a few years.

Where this world fits in the Marvel Multiverse is a bit spotty: it was originally listed as Earth-6799 in the Marvel databooks; ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' retconned it to Earth-67, in reference to the year it first aired; ''ComicBook/WebWarriors'' features a world called Earth-3015, which a caption states to be the world of "a cartoon or two".[[note]]Some fans suggest that 3015 is instead the world of SpiderMan ''memes'' (see FountainOfMemes on the YMMV tab).[[/note]]

* CloudCuckoolander: The Vulture is a bit of an odd bird in this version.

* {{Expy}}: Klivendon is based on Kraven the Hunter, while Charles Cameo is similar to the Chameleon for being a master of disguise. It's possible that they were used in place of Kraven and the Chameleon because of the fact that the comic villains had appeared in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes''. As well, there was a supervillain in one episode named "Dr. Magneto", who attacked Spidey with a special magnetic gun. It's possible that Dr. Magneto was intended to ''be'' the X-Men villain ComicBook/{{Magneto}} but changed him up for one reason or another.

** The cartoon version of "The Madness Of Mysterio" makes Mysterio look like a green-skinned Woody Allen, presumably to avoid licensing issues with using his trademark fishbowl helmet costume.

* VillainTeamUp: One episode sees Dr. Noah Boddy brings Green Goblin, Vulture and Electro together to get revenge on Spider-Man.

* {{Expy}}: Klivendon is based on Kraven the Hunter, while Charles Cameo is similar to the Chameleon for being a master of disguise. It's possible that they were used in place of Kraven and the Chameleon because of the fact that the comic villains had appeared in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes''.

Where this world fits in the Marvel Multiverse is a bit spotty: it was originally listed as Earth-6799 in the Marvel databooks; ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' retconned it to Earth-67, in reference to the year it first aired; ''ComicBook/WebWarriors'' features a world called Earth-3015, which a caption states to be the world of "a cartoon or two".[[note]]Some fans suggest that 3015 is instead the world of SpiderMan ''memes'' (see FountainOfMemes, below).[[/note]]

* ExplosiveLeash: In the episode where Medusa appeared ([[{{Medusa}} no, not that one,]] [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Medusalith_Amaquelin_(Earth-616) this one]]) she ended up getting one put on her by the villain.

Grantray-Lawrence Animation was the original production company responsible for the series, but were on the brink of bankruptcy by the time it premiered and had ''filed'' for it by year's end, forcing them to hand over production duties to Krantz Films, Inc., known at the time for shows like ''RocketRobinHood'' and for being the then-home of Creator/RalphBakshi, who became this show's lead animator. Under Krantz's watch, budgets were slashed by more than half and the show took on a ''[[ReTool very]]'' [[ReTool different tone]], reintroducing Peter as the geeky OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent he was when he first appeared (in fact, the first episode of the second season was a retelling of Spidey's origin story, complete with the RefusalOfTheCall and death of his Uncle Ben).

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: In the second season, mostly because of using footage of villains from RocketRobinHood, the villains were inevitably green-skinned.

* StockFootage: A great abundance of it. Particularly notable during the second season, when endless shots of Spidey swinging across the city (sometimes the same shot would be seen ''[[RuleOfThree three times in a row]]'') were combined with intercut footage from RocketRobinHood as a means of severe cost cutting.

* ClipShow: Aside from the "new" episodes made by editing or recycling footage from older episodes, the last episode of the series, "Trip to Tomorrow" had Spider-Man talk a boy out of running away from home by telling him of how difficult his own adventures were. The scenes shown are from the episodes "Thunder Rumble", "Return of the Flying Dutchman", and "The Evil Sorcerer".

* ReCut: Throughout the latter two seasons, several episodes from the first season (more specifically, those featuring the actual comic book villains) were cut into different sections (and in some cases spliced with bits of other episodes) to create all-new episodes with a new script, to get around the budget issues.

* {{Camp}}

* DaEditor: J. Jonah Jameson, just like before. In fact, a screencap from an episode of this series serves as this trope's page image.

* MeaningfulName: Dr Smarter.
** And Dr. Noah Boddy the invisible man!

* IcePerson: The Plutonians.

* MasterOfDisguise: Charles Cameo

* PragmaticAdaptation: Done with several of the Krantz Films episodes adapted from the comics:
** In the original "To Cage A Spider" comic story, Spider-Man is knocked unconscious by the Vulture and taken to prison. In the cartoon, Spider-Man is knocked out by two bank robbers who get in a lucky shot.

** The cartoon version of "The Madness Of Mysterio" makes Mysterio look like a green-skinned Woody Allen, presumably to avoid licencing issues as mentioned above.

* {{Expy}}: Klivendon to Kraven and Charles Cameo to Chameleon, most likely due to the fact that the comic villains had appeared in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes''.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Vulture is called "Vulture Man" for some reason.

* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: In the second season, mostly because of using footage of villians from RocketRobinHood, the villians were inevitably green-skinned.
* CompositeCharacter: Mary Jane became Captain George Stacy's niece presumably to compensate for the absence of Captain Stacy's daughter, Gwen.

* HistorysCrimeWave: Parafino's Wax Robots of 'Historys Greatest Villains'.

** Besides having a web for every occasion, Spider-Man dabbled in other abilities, such as {{Ventriloquism}}. Then there is Spider-Hearing...

** In the original "To Cage A Spider" comic story, Spider-Man is knocked unconscious by the Vulture and taken to prison. In the cartoon, Spider-Man is knocked out by two bank robbers who get in a lucky shot;
** The cartoon version of "The Big Brainswasher" has ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson as Captain Stacy's niece, since Gwen Stacy never appeared in the show;

* RealityIsOutToLunch: "Revolt In The Fifth Dimension". Just Don't step on the rugs...seriously...

* ReTool: Grantray-Lawrence Productions, the show's original company, went bankrupt in 1968, forcing them to hand over the series to Creator/RalphBakshi's company. The change is ''very'' evident: More and more generic green-skinned villains began appearing, the show began taking on a DarkerAndEdgier tone akin to the 1970s ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'' series, and the focus was more on Peter's home and school life, including more time at home with Aunt May and more on his life as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, phasing out the ''Daily Bugle'' almost entirely. In truth, there were so many differences from the first season one would've thought this was a whole new series entirely.

* StockFootage: A large abundance of it. Particularly notable during the second season, when endless shots of Spidey swinging across the city (sometimes the same shot would be seen ''[[RuleOfThree three times in a row]]'') were combined with intercut footage from RocketRobinHood as a means of severe cost cutting.