Spider-Man (1981) Episode Twenty-Five: The Return of Kingpin

The Return of Kingpin

First Aired: February 27th, 1982

Synopsis: Spider-Man saves a man from being mugged, and afterwards is approached by a man named Hal Hunter, who claims to represent a talent agency that wants to hire Spider-Man. Spider-Man is reluctant to do so, but after Aunt May says that Spider-Man is only in it for the money and being unable to afford a holiday to Hawaii for it, he changes his mind and goes to Hunter, not knowing that Kingpin is behind Hunter and that this is all a scheme of his. Spider-Man's first task for Hunter is to take photos of a museum exhibit, but unbeknownst to him his camera records the security systems at the museum, and it's robbed that night.

Spider-Man (1981) Episode Twenty-Four: Wrath of the Sub-Mariner

Wrath of the Sub-Mariner

First Aired: February 20th, 1982

Synopsis: Spider-Man tries to do what he can to get Silvermane and Man-Mountain Marko, criminals, arrested, but he can't as they're only wanted for crimes on the West Coast. Meanwhile, the Kingpin's head scientist has invented a formula which melts metal, allowing Kingpin to break into what vaults he wants. The waste produced in creating the formula is dumped into the ocean, leading to Namor's cousin Namorita getting sick and falling into a coma. Namor starts attacking the surface world in revenge, but is soon knocked out by the very pollution he sought to destroy. Spider-Man helps him recover and gives him an encouraging speech, leading to Namor both owing Spider-Man a favour and going to see J. Jonah Jameson to use his newspaper to stop pollution. At the same time, Spider-Man goes after Silvermane, who's meeting with Kingpin, Hammerhead, and Caesar Cicero to discuss a crime alliance on a yacht.

Spider-Man (1981) Episode Twenty-Three: The Vulture has Landed

The Vulture has Landed

First Aired: February 13th, 1982

Synopsis: Spider-Man fails to save a scientist from being kidnapped by the Vulture, and shortly afterwards finds from J. Jonah Jameson that Vulture has been kidnapping several scientists. J. Jonah Jameson wants Peter Parker to get in touch with Harry Osborn for a quote about all of this. When Peter goes to see Harry, he's temporarily lost his civilian clothes due to some window cleaners removing the webbing he'd hidden them in, and so he first of all sneaks in and grabs some of Harry's clothes. Vulture appears at this point and, mistaking Peter for Harry, kidnaps him and takes him to his blimp in the sky. The other scientists have been forced to help Vulture, including making him robotic birds, and Vulture forces "Harry" to help him make his blimp invisible. With Peter's only other option being to be dropped out of the blimp, he agrees to.

Spider-Man (1981) Episode Twenty-Two: Arsenic and Aunt May

Arsenic and Aunt May

First Aired: February 6th, 1982

Synopsis: Spider-Man helps the police catch a cat burglar, who is taken to prison and placed in the same cell as the Chameleon. The burglar turns out to be the cousin of Uncle Ben's killer, and tells the Chameleon this as well as what he knows of Spider-Man's origin. Between these facts and the Chameleon's knowledge of Peter Parker, it gives him an idea to get rid of Spider-Man. He escapes from prison and then uses disguises to manipulate Aunt May into seeing a spirit medium, the Great Mentarr, who is himself in disguise. Using special effects, he tricks Aunt May into thinking that she's seeing the dead Uncle Ben, who urges her to kill Spider-Man since it's his fault he's dead. Chameleon also gives Aunt May an amulet which he can use to send her more messages from Uncle Ben.

Spider-Man (1981) Episode Twenty-One: Countdown to Doom

Countdown to Doom

First Aired: January 30th, 1982

Synopsis: A rocket launch is about to happen which will place Doctor Doom's laser cannon from Canon of Doom into space. Peter Parker is in attendance, and when a hose pumping liquid nitrogen into the rocket comes loose, he changes to Spider-Man and saves the day. Unbeknownst to him, Doctor Doom is watching the launch, and is secretly grateful to Spider-Man for allowing the launch to continue. Once the rocket is launched into space, Doom takes control of it remotely, and launches the laser from space at some volcanoes, causing them to erupt. The impact knocks Earth out of its orbit, and Doom blackmails the world into making him the absolute ruler since only he can save everyone from the new weather patterns caused by the new orbit.

Temporary Hiatus

Due to some issues getting the internet set up at the new place I moved to over the weekend, the site will be on a temporary hiatus. I'm optimistic that it will only be for about a week or so, delaying only two or three posts.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Spider-Man (1981) Episode Twenty: The Web of Nephilia

The Web of Nephilia

First Aired: January 23rd, 1982

Synopsis: While Spider-Man saves some people from a fire one day, a woman named Penny nearby takes a sample of his webbing, and tricks him into nicking his finger on a trick pen so that she gets a blood sample. She takes the webbing and the blood to her scientist boyfriend, Doctor Bradley Shaw, and gets him to start researching it. Shortly afterwards, after being goaded by Penny, Shaw uses his research to try and replicate Spider-Man's powers, but unbeknownst to him, Penny sabotages the experiment, turning him into a half-spider, half-human monster. Meanwhile, there's a blood drive at the Daily Bugle, but Peter is making excuses not to donate since his blood is radioactive. J. Jonah Jameson grows angry when he hears this, having donated himself, and tells Peter not to come to the Daily Bugle until he donates. Shortly afterwards, Shaw, now calling himself Nephilia, is goaded into attacking Spider-Man, and after capturing him in webbing, tosses him away, telling him to beware his power.

Spider-Man (1981) Episode Nineteen: The Doom Report

The Doom Report

First Aired: January 16th, 1982

Synopsis: The Latverian man Johan, who escaped Latveria in Canon of Doom, manages to make his way to New York, where he meets the Latverian Underground. They recommend that he go to the Daily Bugle to expose the conditions in Latveria, but after he leaves we find out that they're actually spies working for Doctor Doom. While J. Jonah Jameson doesn't listen to Johan's story, Peter Parker nearby does, and he takes Johan to his house to interview him. After the interview, Betty Brant assists in typing up the interview, but is captured by Doom's spies until Peter frees her as Spider-Man. They get out the story to newspapers other than the Bugle, and as a result the UN decide to bring Doom to trial. At the same time, Johan gets on a plane to return home, but Peter suspects something is off, and accompanies him as Spider-Man. He's soon proven to be correct when Doom hijacks their plane.

Spider-Man (1981) Episode Eighteen: The Capture of Captain America

The Capture of Captain America

First Aired: January 9th, 1982

Synopsis: Spider-Man sees a billboard about Captain America, and finds out shortly afterwards as Peter Parker that J. Jonah Jameson is a big fan. Jonah makes Peter watch a video recapping Cap's origin, and then declares that he's going to run a celebration called Captain America Day. On the day of the actual event, Jonah is knocked out and replaced with a disguised Red Skull, who gets into a fight with Cap when he arrives. Peter changes to Spider-Man to try and help, but only ends up getting in the way. Although Spider-Man's able to get a spider-tracer on Cap's shield, he's unable to stop the Red Skull from capturing Captain America. The real J. Jonah Jameson claims that Spider-Man did it on purpose, and riles up the crowd into hating Spider-Man.