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Episode Guide

Night of the Lizard
Sting of the Scorpion
The Spider Slayer
Return of the Spider Slayers
The Menace of Mysterio
Doctor Octopus: Armed and Dangerous
Alien Costume Part 1
Alien Costume Part 2
Alien Costume Part 3
Kraven the Hunter
The Hobgoblin Part 1
The Hobgoblin Part 2
Day of the Chameleon


The Night of the Lizard
Episode 1, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (8)
Graphics: (10)
Witty Remarks: (8)
Overall: (9)


There's a mysterious creature roaming the sewers and subways of New York. One subway worker has already been kidknapped by the creature and J. Jonah Jameson is offering a thousand dollar bonus to who ever gets an exculsive picture of it for The Daily Bugle. Doctor Curt Connors, a lizard specialist at Empire State Univeristy, also seems to have disappeared, has he too fallen victim to The Lizard?



The Sting of the Scorpion
Episode 2, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (8)
Graphics: (9)
Witty Remarks: (9)
Overall: (9)


Who is Spider-Man and how does Peter Parker always get such great photos of him for The Daily Bugle? Those are the questions J. Jonah Jameson hired Mac Gargon to answer. Unable to successfully tail Peter to Spider-Man's hideout Gargon agreed to undergo neogenic treatment adminstired by Farrly Stillwell to make him stronger and faster, but the treament transformed him into a monster called The Scorpion. Only wanting to be changed back into plan old Mac Gargon he kidknapped Jameson and fled to the radiation chambers at Oscorp. Will The Scorpion ever be normal again?



The Spider Slayer
Episode 3, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (8)
Graphics: (9)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (9)


Who is controling the Spider Seekers tailing Spider-Man high above the city? As he changes into Peter Parker for the Hardy Foundation Fund raiser event, where he will be taking pictures for The Daily Bugle, he ponders this question.
At the fund raiser Peter's dance with Felcia Hardy is interupted by an imposter Spider-Man (who is actually Flash Thompson). Mistaking Flash for the real Spider-Man the Black Widow Spider Slayer kidnapps him. Will Spider-Man be able to save Flash before the master minds behind this scheme have him eliminated?



The Return of the Spider Slayers
Episode 4, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (9)
Graphics: (10)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (10)


The Black Widow is back, with company. Spencer Symthe's son, Alistair, has improved on his father's inventions and has teamed up with King Pin to gain revenge against the people he believes caused his father's appearant death. Now, not only does Spider-Man have to stop 3 Spider Slayers, he has to do it with J. Jonah Jameson latched to his arm by an explosive device! Will he be able to defeat the Tri-Spider Slayer, and survive his blind date with Mary Jane Watson?


The Menace of Mysterio
Episode 5, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (10)
Graphics: (10)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (10)


Spider-Man has been framed for robbing a museum of precious antiquities just as a new 'hero' emerges from the shadows, Mysterio. This bulbous man claims that he can stop Spider-Man gaining the full backing of J. Jonah Jameson, but what are Mysterio's real motives? Terri Lee is close on the heels of the battle as Spidey is lured to a special effects studio. Will they survive the horrors within?


Doctor Octopus: Armed and Dangerous
Episode 6, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (10)
Graphics: (9)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (10)


Peter nervously awaits Felcia in the hall of the Hardys' mansion before their date when a scream rings out. Too late Peter discovers that Felcia has been kidnapped by Dr. Octopus! After bargaining attempts fail with J. Jonah Jameson as messenger, giving Doc. Oc. a second hostage, Peter is able to convince the F.B.I. negotiaters that he is the next best candidate since as a boy he attend a science camp lead by Dr. Octopus, formerly Dr. Otto Octavius. Will their shared nostoligia be enough to overcome the evils Octavius feels the Hardys have put him through?


Alien Costume, Part 1
Episode 7, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (10)
Graphics: (10)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (10)


John Jameson, J. Jonah Jameson's son, unknowingly endangers the crew of his space shuttle when he discovers a sample of prometheum x on an asteriod and brings it back to Earth. A strange ooze hitches a ride as well and causes the astronaughts to lose control of the shuttle crashing it on the Washington bridge. Spider-Man rushes to save the astronaughts while the Kingpin rushes the Rhino in to steal the prometheum x. Their skuffle leaves Spidey in the Hudson river where he finds some truly unique pollution. Meanwhile, J. Jonah Jameson, acting on pictures of the crash taken by Eddie Brock, announces to the world that Spider-Man stole the prometheum x and a million dollar reward is on his head. A horrific nightmare leaves Spider-Man hanging and viewers as well. What does this dream mean and who will set Jonah straight on the whereabouts of prometheum x?


Alien Costume, Part 2
Episode 8, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (10)
Graphics: (10)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (10)


A new costume and it's possibilities sends Spider-Man on a power trip, but it also clouds his judgement. Three times in this episode Spidey nearly loses his cool: Once with Flash Thompson, Twice with Rhino, Thrice with the Shocker. Further analysis by Dr. Curt Connors proves that the new black costume is truly a symbiot attempting to bond permanently with Spider-Man! Can Spidey save himself from his new threads?


Alien Costume, Part 3
Episode 9, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (10)
Graphics: (10)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (10)


The sonics of the bell ring seperates Spider-Man from the symbiot, but it quickly finds a new host, Eddie Brock! Brock's hatred for Spidey turns him into the symbiot's new best friend as it is now angered by Spidey's rejection as well. Like two peas in a pod Brock and the symbiot form Venom and set off to make Peter's life misserable. Worse yet, since the symbiot had tried to bond with Peter it knew all his secrets, feelings, and weaknesses which it was all to glad to share with Brock. Can Spider-Man escape this menacing duo before it destroies him and those he loves?


Kraven the Hunter
Episode 10, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (9)
Graphics: (9)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (9)


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The Hobgoblin, Part 1
Episode 11, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (10)
Graphics: (10)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (10)


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The Hobgoblin, Part 2
Episode 12, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (10)
Graphics: (10)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (10)


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Day of the Chameleon
Episode 13, Season 1


Ratings

Story: (10)
Graphics: (10)
Witty Remarks: (10)
Overall: (10)


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