Spider-Man

Sep 9, 1967

Teenage photographer Peter Parker is sent by the Daily Bugle to investigate a series of mystery lights in a wooded area outside of the city, when a sudden landslide forces him to swerve off the road and land in a tree.

Sep 9, 1967

On a blistering hot afternoon, Peter is walking to the house of a brilliant scientist, Doctor Smartyr, when suddenly he notices that the sidewalk, and most of the neighborhood, is turning to ice. Hearing desperate cries for help from Smartyr's house, Peter changes into Spider-Man and breaks through a laboratory window to find the frightened scientist being menaced by a towering ice creature.

Sep 16, 1967

Peter flies to Florida to find and photograph the Lizard Man. Spider-Man meets Dr. Curtis Connor's family. He is pulled underwater by the Lizard Man, but escapes.

Sep 16, 1967

Spider-Man is set up numerous times by Electro's robberies.

Sep 23, 1967

Spider-Man has been witnessed committing a robbery of the Midtown Museum.

Sep 30, 1967

The Vulture uses a sonic device in his head mask to control an army of vultures. After the Vulture beats Spider-Man, he holds the city up for a $2,000,000 ransom and J. Jonah Jameson blames Spider-Man.

Sep 30, 1967

An inventor named Henry Smythe reveals his plans to capture Spider-Man with a robot and get paid by J. Jonah Jameson for his efforts.

Oct 7, 1967

Dr. Stillwell creates the Scorpion on J. Jonah Jameson's behalf to capture Spider-Man. The Scorpion attacks Spider-Man, who escapes. However, the Scorpion's evil nature takes over as his strength increases which causes him to go after Jameson.

Oct 7, 1967

As Spider-Man examines the Goliath Diamond, the Sandman appears and swipes the diamond, with Spider-Man getting the blame as he is seen by the guards.

Oct 14, 1967

Spider-Man witnesses, and photographs, a giant metal-eating robot in Central Park.

Oct 14, 1967

The Green Goblin swipes Grandini the Mystic's witchcraft book, hoping to control demons of the Underworld.

Oct 21, 1967

Electro escapes prison, before Spider-Man can stop him, using a metal kite during an electrical storm to renew his powers.

Oct 21, 1967

Spider-Man faces off against Parafino, a wax museum owner who plans to make Spider-Man into his latest exhibit.

Oct 28, 1967

Spider-Man is keeping an eye on a train when the Rhino rams into it and steals the first component of a top secret weapon.

Nov 4, 1967

Someone has sent a one-eyed idol to J. Jonah Jameson. Jameson is hypnotized by the idol to steal his own money. Spider-Man finds the thief, but he escapes with the money.

Nov 4, 1967

Spider-Man attempts to halt the Phantom's activities only to be set up by him and his robot henchwoman Marie, who is disguised as a shop window mannequin.

Nov 11, 1967

Spider-Man saves a boat from Dr. Matto Magneto's attempt to crash it on the rocks by sabotaging a lighthouse.

Nov 11, 1967

Spider-Man gets into an embassy, sees the foreign visiting Prime Minister tied up and gagged, and fights someone impersonating the Prime Minister, but he is forced to retreat to find proof after being gassed by the imposter's cane and having his camera stolen.

Nov 18, 1967

Historic villains Blackbeard the Pirate, Jesse James, and the Executioner of Paris are committing robberies in New York City.

Nov 18, 1967

Miss Trubble, a book dealer obsessed with mythology, is owner of a magical chest from which she summons a succession of mythological figures, from centaurs to the Cyclops to Diana the Hunter-Goddess, to commit robberies of ancient artifacts on her behalf.

Nov 25, 1967

A scientist, Dr. Noah Boddy, renders himself invisible by means of a machine, then acts to avenge himself upon Jameson, who publically maligned his theory of invisibility.

Nov 25, 1967

Spider-Man battles an Arabian jewel thief, whose magical flute induces animals into attacking Spidey.

Dec 2, 1967

Reports of a legendary flying ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, being sighted near Smuggler's Cove summon Spidey to the area, where his investigation into the phantom ship's appearance leads him to a cave in which he finds his sworn adversary, Mysterio, plotting with a pair of thugs.

Dec 2, 1967

When a Jekyll-and-Hyde poster comes to life at the soon-to-be-demolished Castle Theatre, Spidey visits the theatre and encounters mischievous Blackwell the Magician, who is trying to attract public attention to the theatre in hope of preventing its demolition.

Dec 9, 1967

Spider-Man's old enemy, the rampaging Rhino, is stealing gold bullion to mold an auric likeness of himself.

Dec 9, 1967

A bald-headed mastermind, the Plotter, employs two ridiculous criminals, Cowboy and Ox, to steal a blueprint to a missile.

Dec 16, 1967

Spidey chases the culprit in an attempted theft of jewels from a countess and is surprised to find that his opponent, dressed in a black Human Fly costume, also has the ability to scale walls and can cross thin wires between buildings.

Dec 16, 1967

Oil is being stolen in huge quantities by Dr. Von Schlick, a chemist villain garbed in a rubber, non-stick suit and armed with petroleum-based bubbles that he fires from his fingers.

Dec 23, 1967

The nefarious Vulture traps Jameson inside of a tower-clock and uses the well-informed Daily Bugle publisher as a source of information on the whereabouts of a visiting diamond merchant and the testing of military equipment—two prospective heists for the greedy bird-man.

Dec 23, 1967

Life-like and substantial shadows of beasts are projected in various locations in New York City by the Phantom's new Shadow-Scope glasses to cause panic and enable the Phantom to effect unconstrained bank and jewelry store robberies.

Dec 30, 1967

Doctor Octopus imposes upon Dr. Smartyr's Nullifier rocket test and steals the ultra-powerful destructor missile.

Dec 30, 1967

While Blackwell the Magician is entertaining at the Castle Theatre, his house is invaded by the Green Goblin, who swipes some of Blackwell's props and peruses Blackwell's book of magic spells and incantations.

Jan 6, 1968

Dr. Curtis Conner goes missing in the Florida swamps after finding the Fountain of Youth. When Spidey investigates the scientist's disappearance, he discovers a fifteenth century Spanish conquistador, Ponce de León, who is intent upon keeping the magical fountain a secret.

Jan 6, 1968

Because he hates rock-and-roll for its having replaced classical music in the tastes of the masses, a fiddler with a deadly, sonic violin seeks revenge upon pop-music sponsor Cyrus Flintridge.

Jan 13, 1968

Under the guidance of Dr. Noah Boddy, the Green Goblin, Electro, and the Vulture join forces for revenge on Spiderman.

Jan 13, 1968

Art robberies are committed by an old enemy of Spider-Man, actor Charles Cameo, who can utilize masks and make-up to usurp any identity, including those of J. Jonah Jameson and Spiderman!

Jan 20, 1968

When the Scorpion, intent on vengeance upon Spider-Man and Jameson, escapes prison, he visits the laboratory of his creator, Dr. Stillwell, and drinks a potion that vastly increases his size.

Jan 20, 1968

Paroled from prison, the Human Fly Twins rob diamonds from an importing company, and one of them does this deed in a Spider-Man costume so that the guard, before being hit on the head from behind by the second twin, believes that Spidey is the culprit.

Sep 14, 1968

Student Peter Parker is labeled a "bookworm" by his peers when he declines their offer of a triple-date in favor of viewing a radiology experiment.

Sep 21, 1968

On his first night at work at the Daily Bugle, Peter overhears talk of a fake medicine racket engineered by a rotund mobster called the Kingpin.

Sep 28, 1968

A twisted radiation specialist gains illicit dominion over Manhattan's new and only nuclear power plant and uses a special ray to lift Manhattan into the clouds.

Oct 5, 1968

Roy Robinson, star football player, campus ladies' man, son of a wealthy chemical industrialist, is envied by Peter, who decides to use his spider-power to play football and outperform Robinson.

Oct 12, 1968

Investigating the disappearance of banks, Spidey finds a hole that leads to a maze of underground tunnels, through which Spidey undertakes a perilous journey in search of the lost occupants of the submerged banks.

Oct 19, 1968

A baseball diamond and the spherical, baseball-sized Optimo Diamond at the Cosmopolitan Museum are connected in this episode.

Oct 26, 1968

Mugs Riley, evidently escaped from prison, has duped the Molemen into following him again.

Nov 2, 1968

Giant, mechanical beetles are used by Manta to capture and enslave the peace-loving inhabitants of an island to mine a valuable ore.

Nov 9, 1968

In ancient Egypt, one of the most aggressive of evil magicians, Kotep, the Scarlet Sorcerer, is defeated in battle with an opponent, and his own demons strike him with a cursing ball of fire that puts him in suspended animation, his mummified remains lasting through the passing centuries and becoming an exhibit at a New York university and the object of a professor's obsession.

Nov 16, 1968

A giant plant escapes from storage in a house belonging to Prof. Smithers, a missing scientist. Spidey goes through a portal (located in the scientist's home) to prehistoric times to find some defense against the plant and meets Smithers, who tells to him that two radium gems in an idol in a nearby city, if ingested by the plant in New York, will disintegrate it.

Nov 23, 1968

Pardo is a sorcerer with the ability to transform himself into a giant cat with hypnotic eyes. He lures top New York City’s citizens and officials to a theatre with the promise of a spectacular show, then releases his feline alter-ego's power upon the hapless audience, intending to divest them of their wealth and sap the souls out of their bodies.

Nov 30, 1968

Peter is an exchange student in South America, flying in a charter airplane with a Latin American professor in the Andes mountains. The airplane encounters a violent storm and crashes in a jungle, and Peter changes to Spider-Man to assist the professor and the airplane's two pilots in leaving the jungle and returning to civilization.

Dec 7, 1968

On Jameson's orders, Peter, and Daily Bugle pilot, Penny Jones travel by small-engine airplane to the Antarctic Ocean to track a fallen nose cone and crash-land on an island with a superstitious, brutish, native population.

Dec 14, 1968

At a coffee house, Peter meets Carol, a girl with whom he has much in common; he does not realize to what extent that they are alike until he, as Spider-Man, catches Carol in the act of robbing electrical equipment and finds that she has powers identical to his.

Dec 21, 1968

Clive, an unbalanced movie producer, is determined to avenge himself upon critics and audiences who spurned his claim that the darkest human emotions could be filmed and physically released from a theatre screen.

Dec 28, 1968

A giant Martian warrior, who throws lightning bolts, comes to Earth to rob the planet of its gold.

Jan 4, 1969

Dr. Irving Caldwell has devised a helmet capable of levitating its wearer and is kidnaped by a villainous scientist, Dr. Zap, who wants Caldwell's helmet to duplicate for his own evil use.

Jan 11, 1969

Sophisticated diamond thief Dr. Cool and his henchman have heisted a fortune in diamonds and are at a deserted-before-dawn ice factory, planning to smuggle the gems through international customs by mixing the "hot ice" with large quantities of the ordinary variety.

Jan 18, 1969

Two robbers dynamite a bank safe and abscond in their car with millions of stolen dollars.

Mar 22, 1970

Spidey discovers the bird-man Vulture robbing a millionaire's penthouse safe and unsuccessfully tries to stop the flying fiend.

Mar 22, 1970

Spidey swings to Florida again to battle a walking, thinking lizard. This time, the lizard is not a transformed Dr. Conner, but a reptile whose intelligence has been augmented in an experiment by Conner gone awry, and who has kidnaped Conner and holds the ill-fated scientist as captive at a Spanish fort.

Mar 29, 1970

New York City children build a snowman with snow contaminated by trace chemicals from an industrial plant up the Hudson River, and a freak accident involving a broken electrical line hitting the snowman somehow brings the snowman to life.

Mar 29, 1970

Desperado, a cowboy criminal, lassos Spidey and begins a crime wave atop his electronic horse.

Apr 5, 1970

A German Baron utilizes a flying aircraft carrier to launch an attack on New York City with World War One-style fighter airplanes.

Apr 5, 1970

The Kingpin's latest scheme to control New York involves a machine that brainwashes city officials into doing as the commands.

Apr 12, 1970

Dr. Vespasian, a green-skinned, wrinkled scientist, concocts a drinkable invisibility formula and uses it on himself and his dog, Brutus.

Apr 12, 1970

From his vantage point atop a building, Spidey watches as crowds form long lines to attend Saturday night Broadway performances. To the panic of the mass of people, the Moon becomes a psychedelic pinwheel that fills the night sky and dizzies and renders everyone- including Spidey- unconscious.

Apr 19, 1970

Super Swami, an obese illusionist, seems to make the Brooklyn Bridge disappear piece by piece.

Apr 19, 1970

Professor Pretories, the most diabolical mind ever known to science, escapes jail, and Peter unknowingly helps the convict by car-driving him, a hitchhiker, to his secret-laboratory hideout.

Apr 26, 1970

Spidey jousts with a motorcycle-riding knight in armor who is robbing theatre box offices, armored trucks, and museum officials receiving a medieval artifact.

Apr 26, 1970

Dr. Dumpty, a corpulent jewel thief, attacks a parade with knock-out gas released from balloons, and he and his thugs, wearing gas masks, steal the jewels of actress Rachele Wells and abscond in a hot air balloon.

May 3, 1970

The weird Dr. Atlantian rises out of the ocean near New York City in his hive-like machine, which derives its power from Lunar motion.

May 10, 1970

A remake of Season 2's "Vine", virtually identical in plot; the only difference is that instead of a giant plant threatening New York, the menace is a series of enormous, rolling pods that grow from boxes in a missing scientist's house.

May 17, 1970

In a cheater story comprised of footage from both Rhino episodes from Season 1, the Rhino again steals gold shipments with which to build a 14 karat statue of himself.

May 17, 1970

Spider-Man tussles once more with master-of-illusion Mysterio. This time, Mysterio causes Spidey to think that he has shrunk the web-swinger and placed him in a miniature amusement park.

May 24, 1970

Luck, Suggestion and Determination must guide Spider-Man through this trip into the 5th dimension. Spider-Man finds himself face to face with The Skeletal Infinata.

May 31, 1970

An old enemy of Spidey's, a radiation specialist who once lifted Manhattan into the sky, has been released from jail and promptly revisits Manhattan's nuclear power plant, stuns the outdoor guards with his ray gun, and again commandeers the reactor.

Jun 7, 1970

Jameson orders Peter to fly in an airplane with Daily Bugle pilot Osa Olsen to the North Pole to locate a fallen meteor with bizarre antennae, but a thunder-snowstorm cripples Parker and Olsen's airplane, and it crashes in a wasteland populated by a tribe of savages.

Jun 14, 1970

A bolt of lightning breaks Spidey's web, causing him to fall into a boxcar at a rail yard. In the boxcar, Spidey meets a young runaway who plans to ride a freight train out of New York City and become "the Caped Protector of Podunk".