History WesternAnimation / SpiderMan1967

* CatchPhrase: "Wallopin' web-snappers!"

The first show to ever feature the [[Franchise/SpiderMan eponymous pop culture phenomenon]] premiered on September 9, 1967 on the Creator/{{ABC}} television network and ran for a total of three seasons, entering into syndication during its final season in 1970.

** The cartoon version of "The Madness Of Mysterio" makes Mysterio look like a green-skinned Creator/WoodyAllen, presumably to avoid licensing issues with using his trademark fishbowl helmet costume. (His season one appearances, of course, did use the fishbowl helmet, but the show wasn't suffering from the budget issues that would plague it by the time "The Madness of Mysterio" came around.)

* CompositeCharacter: Mary Jane takes Gwen Stacy's place as relative to Captain George Stacy (his niece).

** The cartoon version of "The Madness Of Mysterio" makes Mysterio look like a green-skinned Creator/WoodyAllen, presumably to avoid licensing issues with using his trademark fishbowl helmet costume. Other appearances did use the fishbowl helmet

* OffModel: It's rare for anything to be ''on'' model in this series.

* AmbiguousSituation: While Jameson says that the Green Goblin is wearing a costume, we never see Norman Osborn outside of it, which technically begs the question if the Goblin truly is a guy in a costume, like in the comics (and if that guy is Osborn), or if he is an instance of a pre-Season 2 villain who inexplicably has green skin. Taking the unmasked Mysterio we ended up with into account, it could still be a costume, but the individual beneath it could still be green.

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 [[Film/{{Superman}} movie theme]] is with Superman.) A DVD release of the series was issued in 2004, but went out of print after a few years.

* EarlyAdaptationWeirdness: Peter Parker [[SecretIdentityVocalShift uses a deeper and more adult voice as Spider-Man]] in this cartoon. This comes in stark contrast to future adaptations, which has Peter use his normal voice as Spidey.

** In the first issue of ''ComicBook/WebWarriors'', Spider-Gwen ends up spotting Spidey hiding behind a desk, telling him "There '''is''' a big super-villain heist going on out there and [[ADateWithRosiePalms you're just sitting there...]] what '''are''' you doing?"

* DarkerAndEdgier: The second season on, oh so much. The first episode of the second season is also notable for including Spider-Man's origin story (adapted not, despite from popular belief, from ''ComicBook/AmazingFantasyNumberFifteen'' [though some lines are used], but from the then-new ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' magazine series), and the second episode featured the Kingpin.

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

* EarlyAdaptationWeirdness: Peter Parker uses a deeper and more adult voice as Spider-Man in this cartoon. This comes in stark contrast to future adaptations, which has Peter use his normal voice as Spidey.

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

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 Franchise/SpiderMan ''memes'' (see FountainOfMemes on the YMMV tab).[[/note]]

* AmbiguousSituation: While Jameson says that the Green Goblin is wearing a costume, we never see Norman Osborn outside of it, which technically begs the question if the Goblin truly is a guy in a costume, like in the comics (and if that guy is Osborn), or if he is an instance of a pre-Season 2 villain who inexplicably has green skin. Taking the unmasked Mysterio we ended up into account, it could still be a costume, but the individual beneath it could still be green.

* AmbiguousSituation: While Jameson says that the Green Goblin is wearing a costume, we never see Norman Osborn outside of it, which technically begs the question if the Goblin truly is a guy in a costume, like in the comics (and if that guy is Osborn), or if he is an instance of a pre-Season 2 villain who inexplicably has green skin.

* AmbiguousSituation: While Jameson says that the Green Goblin is wearing a costume, we never see him without it on, begging the question if he truly is a guy in a costume, like in the comics, or if he is an instance of a Pre-Season 2 villain who inexplicably has green skin.

* AmbiguousSituation: While Jameson says that the Green Goblin is wearing a costume, we never see him without it on, begging the question if he truly is a guy in the costume, like in the comics, or if he is an instance of a Pre-Season 2 villain who inexplicably has green skin.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The second season on, oh so much. The first episode of the second season is also notable for including Spider-Man's origin story (adapted not, despite from popular belief, from ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 [though some lines are used], but from the then-new ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' magazine series), and the second episode featured the Kingpin.

* LimitedAnimation: For example, the webbing pattern is absent on the torso of Spidey's costume. Whether this is due to budget constraints or just plain laziness is uncertain.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Jameson is so obsessed with proving Spider-Man is a "menace" that HE WILL automatically accuse Spider-Man of any crime, [[ConfirmationBias even when the evidence clearly contradicts him]]. In one episode where the Green Goblin kidnaps him as a way to summon evil spirits, Jameson ACTUALLY thinks Green Goblin is Spider-Man who just changed his name and costume!

* InsaneTrollLogic: Jameson is so obsessed with proving Spider-Man is a "menace" that HE WILL automatically accuse Spider-Man of any crime, even when the evidence clearly contradicts him. In one episode where the Green Goblin kidnaps him as a way to summon evil spirits, Jameson ACTUALLY thinks Green Goblin is Spider-Man who just changed his name and costume!

* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: Paul Soles used a lower-toned voice for Spider-Man.