Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Episode Fourteen: The Origin of the Iceman

The Origin of Iceman

First Aired: September 18th, 1982

Synopsis: Peter Parker is telling Angelica and Bobby about a memory reading probe he's got access to at university when the three heroes see a fire truck go by. They change into costume and help stop the fire, but secret government agent Iceman's powers fail him at a critical time. Spider-Man suggests that they check Iceman's history to see whether his powers have failed him before, and so they go to university to use the memory probe. They see Iceman's origin, in which he hid his powers from people at school until he was found by Professor X, who had him join the X-Men alongside the rest of the original five. When Iceman saw a reward from J. Jonah Jameson for the capture of Spider-Man, he went for it, but after Spider-Man went along with it, he found out that the reward was a month's subscription to the Daily Bugle and an autographed photo of Jonah. With no leads found in Iceman's memories, the group stop looking at his memories. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, Videoman's arcade cabinet has been hit by lightning, and the villain has returned to life.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Episode Thirteen: Quest of the Red Skull

Quest of the Red Skull

First Aired: December 5th, 1981

Synopsis: Some Nazis are searching a university professor's house in the suburbs for something, and while they're able to capture him, they aren't able to find it. Peter Parker leaves a nearby party, but when his spider-sense warns him of the nearby danger, he investigates as Spider-Man. During the fight with the Nazis, he unintentionally finds the Nazis' goal - an engraving of a scorpion. The Nazis defeat Spider-Man and leave with their goal. The Nazis go to their boss, the Red Skull, who reveals that the scorpion can lead them to a stash of Nazi weaponry and money. Meanwhile, Spider-Man recovers and meets secret government agent Iceman, Firestar, and the professor, Hiawatha Smith. Smith is a Native American and reveals himself to be competent enough to accompany the heroes. It turns out that the scorpion found by the villains was a replica, and that the heroes can use the original to find the stash of Nazi stuff before they do. They work out that the stash is in a South American jungle and head there.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Episode Twelve: Pawns of the Kingpin

Pawns of the Kingpin

First Aired: November 28th, 1981

Synopsis: Kingpin's discovered an experimental new gun the US Army has developed, and plans to steal it for himself. His ally Doctor Faustus has developed a psycho-disc which will allow him to control someone for up to twelve hours, and so the plan is to use Captain America and Iceman to steal the gun from the army base it's held at. Captain America show up at ESU the next day, and Iceman mentions that he's going to interview him for his journalism assignment. Unbeknownst to everyone, Cap gets a psycho-disc planted on him by Faustus, and he tells Iceman that he needs his help on a secret government mission, presumably because Iceman's a secret government agent. While this is going on, Spider-Man spots Kingpin's limo nearby, and follows it, but is knocked off it and nearly run over by a train before Firestar saves him. Afterwards, Spider-Man's spider-sense tingles when he's near Cap, making him suspicious.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Episode Eleven: Knights and Demons

Knights and Demons

First Aired: November 21st, 1981

Synopsis: The villainous magician Modred the Evil was banished to another dimension by the Black Knight and his Ebony Blade centuries ago, but a statue of Darkon the demon has recently been found which will come to life on the next full moon and free him. Peter, Angelica, and Bobby see the statue of Darkon at a medieval fair, and Peter does some research on the Black Knight. The three heroes are in a museum looking at an exhibition about the Black Knight when the full moon appears and Darkon comes to life. The three heroes fight him, but his appearance leads to the Black Knight appearing, as he is needed. He takes the Ebony Blade from the museum and fights Darkon, but when the heroes try assisting him he's so startled by them that Darkon gets the Ebony Blade off him and goes to Modred's dimension to free him. The heroes and the Black Knight start to follow him with the power of the Merlin Medallion, which can also protect them from Modred's magic, but as they're teleporting away Modred uses a spell to knock it out of the Black Knight's hand so they're left without it.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Episode Ten: The Vengeance of Loki!

The Vengeance of Loki

First Aired: November 14th, 1981

Synopsis: From Asgard, Loki uses magic to move an iceberg to hit a ship. The ship sends out a distress signal which is picked up by Iceman. He heads to the Arctic with Firestar and Spider-Man to save it. While Iceman is swimming to sink the ship, he notices a Viking ship frozen in the iceberg, with a diamond in its bow reflecting at him. While Spider-Man and Firestar are helping save the ship, Thor shows up, and explains about the gods of Asgard. The diamond in the frozen ship is one of the Twins of the Gods, with its counterpart being possessed by Loki, who wants to use them to gain more power. The heroes look for the frozen ship again but Loki manages to beat them to it and get the other Twin of the God. He teleports Iceman and Thor to realms of Asgard, where they're trapped, before reviving a Viking who was in the ship and giving him power to destroy the world. Finally, he traps Firestar and Spider-Man with the Twins of the Gods, and then commands the Viking to head to New York to destroy it.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Episode Nine: Spidey Goes Hollywood

Spidey Goes Hollywood

First Aired: November 7th, 1981

Synopsis: Hollywood director Sam Blockbuster is trying to make a Spider-Man movie, but is having terrible luck in making it. Mysterio reveals that he's behind the "bad luck", and threatens Blockbuster to get the real Spider-Man for the film. He wants to defeat Spider-Man on camera and then use the footage to make millions. When Spider-Man hears about Blockbuster's request, he's reluctant to sign up until he finds out that Aunt May is trying to pawn her jewellery to pay for her house. He goes to Hollywood with Iceman and Firestar via bus because Blockbuster is cheap. Along the way, they pick up Bruce Banner of all people, and Spider-Man says he'll get Bruce a job on the movie set. Once they're in Hollywood, Mysterio starts trying to defeat Spider-Man using the mechanical props of the film, but Spider-Man is saved by Firestar. Mysterio is enraged, but upon overhearing that Iceman and Firestar want to meet certain celebrities, creates robot duplicates of them to take care of the other heroes.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Episode Eight: The Prison Plot

The Prison Plot

Synopsis: The annual warden and police chief's convention is taking place at a prison. Peter Parker, Angelica Jones, and Bobby Drake are working odd jobs at it so that they can make enough money to buy Aunt May a birthday present. A disguised Magneto is there as an escape artist, but Peter recognises him, changes to Spider-Man, and confronts him. Magneto sticks Spider-Man in a prop for his act - a giant hourglass - and then traps everyone in the prison behind a magnetic barrier, saying that he'll only release everyone when his fellow mutants are released from the prison they're in. Angelica and Bobby change to their alter egos and save Spider-Man before getting into a brief skirmish with Magneto. Spider-Man notices that electricity in the prison goes down when Magneto uses his powers, and that means that Magneto's getting power from the Niagra Falls generator. Iceman and Spider-Man go off to take care of the generator, while Firestar will distract Magneto.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Episode Seven: Videoman

Videoman

First Aired: October 24th, 1981

Synopsis: Flash Thompson is addicted to playing an arcade game called Videoman, which he's beaten multiple times. Unbeknownst to him, Electro is the creator of the arcade game, and he's delivered copies to a bank, army base, and penthouse. When Flash sneaks back into the arcade after it closes to play the game, an electronic creature also called Videoman comes out of the arcade. Firestar saves him, but Flash sees her changing from Angelica Jones and now knows her identity. Videoman zaps Flash with a ray, and this somehow transports Flash into a video game at Electro's hideout. Electro declares that when he reaches 100 points, he'll turn it off which will kill Flash. Meanwhile, Angelica tells Bobby and Peter about Videoman after he gets away. Peter works out that Videoman must have been created by Electro since he's made of electricity, and upon putting in Electro's information to their computer, it reveals the locations that Electro delivered the games to. The three split up and go to investigate.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Episode Six: 7 Little Superheroes

7 Little Superheroes

First Aired: October 17th, 1981

Synopsis: In a castle, Chameleon puts together a scheme to draw seven superheroes there and defeat them one at a time as revenge for them having defeated him in the past. Invitations are sent out to Spider-Man, Firestar,and Iceman, who accept but discover that they'll have to take Aunt May's dog, Ms. Lion, with them since Aunt May can't look after her during that time. Upon arriving at the castle, they meet the other heroes - Captain America, Doctor Strange, Shanna the She-Devil, and Namor - but Chameleon soon announces his plan to kill the superheroes over a loudspeaker. Namor is soon defeated by a trap Chameleon set up, and Spider-Man too is temporarily taken out of the picture. Chameleon disguises himself as Spider-Man and tricks Captain America into falling into some quicksand, but Ms. Lion recognises that he's not the real Spider-Man. Chameleon gets away, however, and the real Spider-Man returns.