Happy 30th Birthday, Spidey & Friends!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Saturday, September 12th 1981, "Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends" debuted on NBC's Saturday Morning line-up! Don't you feel REALLY OLD now?

Spider-man, Ice Man and Firestar fought crime from their brownstone apartment all through the 1980's, never having to update their style or design at all. And they gave me some of my biggest Saturday morning thrills EVER when they would bring in other Marvel comics characters. "THAT'S THE X-MEN! THAT'S CAPTAIN AMERICA! OMG I CAN DIE NOW!!!"

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[calliopes_pen]

Don't you feel REALLY OLD now?

They started almost a month after I was born, so getting there. This means I was watching this show (and remember a lot of details) when I was 6 months old.

[cunninggod.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite shows...and I too loved the appearance of other characters, especially the X-men :)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Did you also have the whole "WHAT THE HELL WOLVERINE IS AUSTRALIAN?!?!?!" moment when you first saw them? Still, it was awesome :)
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[venger.livejournal.com]

Yup! And that's probably why I thought Wolverine was Australian before I started reading comics. :P

[venger.livejournal.com]

I think this was one of the first Saturday Morning Cartoons I really remember loving, and it was my introduction to Spidey. :)

I always wanted them to fight Doctor Doom cause he was at the end of the intro, so like Skeletor, I assumed he was their "main villain"... but they hardly ever did! lol

[aurora77]

Your memory may have been reinforced by the later re-runs. But then again, I have otherwise inexplicable memories of stuff from when I was really really young, too.

[mspette.livejournal.com]

Love, love, love this show!
My favourite bits were also the ones with other super heroes. There are at least two x men episodes, right? In one of them they have a get-together and the villain takes everybody out, but Spidey comes to the rescue.

We got this at the same time as Spider-Man (8os version). I watched both religiously, but preferred this one.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Two episodes with The X-Men, 5 episodes total that included other Marvel Comics characters (Captain America, Sub Mariner, etc)... it was indeed a king among cartoons :)