The Worst Episodes of Spider-Man

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   4.2/10(4 votes)

   #1 - Blotto

   S2:E1512/21/1968

   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.

   Director:Ralph Bakshi

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   4.8/10(4 votes)

   #2 - The Revenge of Dr. Magneto

   S1:E1711/11/1967

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

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   4.8/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Neptune's Nose Cone

   S2:E1312/7/1968

   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.

   Director:Ralph Bakshi

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   4.8/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Up from Nowhere

   S3:E135/3/1970

   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.

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   5.0/10(4 votes)

   #5 - The Night of the Villains

   S1:E1911/18/1967

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

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   5.0/10(4 votes)

   #6 - Spider-Man Meets Doctor Noah Boddy

   S1:E2111/25/1967

   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.

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   5.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - The Big Brainwasher

   S3:E64/5/1970

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

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   5.0/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Down to Earth

   S3:E196/7/1970

   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.

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   5.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - Trip to Tomorrow

   S3:E206/14/1970

   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".

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    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #10 - The Sky Is Falling

    S1:E69/30/1967

    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.

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    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #11 - The Spider and the Fly

    S1:E2712/16/1967

    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.

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    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Diamond Dust

    S2:E610/19/1968

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

    Director:Ralph Bakshi

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    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Spiderman Battles the Molemen

    S2:E710/26/1968

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

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    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Knight Must Fall

    S3:E114/26/1970

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

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    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Specialists and Slaves

    S3:E185/31/1970

    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.

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    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #16 - The One-Eyed Idol

    S1:E1511/4/1967

    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.

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    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #17 - Fountain of Terror

    S1:E331/6/1968

    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.

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    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #18 - Sting of the Scorpion

    S1:E371/20/1968

    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.

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    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #19 - Swing City

    S2:E39/28/1968

    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.

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    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #20 - The Winged Thing

    S3:E13/22/1970

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

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    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Diet of Destruction

    S1:E1010/14/1967

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

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    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Menace from the Bottom of the World

    S2:E510/12/1968

    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.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi

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    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Pardo Presents

    S2:E1111/23/1968

    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.

    Director:Ralph Bakshi

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    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Super Swami

    S3:E94/19/1970

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

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Sub-Zero for Spidey

    S1:E29/9/1967

    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.

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