10 Weird And Wonderful Alternate Versions Of Spider-Man

Marvel’s first attempt at getting Spider-Man off the pages of a comic and onto the same kind of stage that brought us Adam West Batman, the sixties animated Spider-Man follows most of the same events that Earth 616 (the ‘main’ Marvel Universe) does, except in a totally wacky way.

Examples? Well, you only need to remember such instances as Spider-Man sitting at a desk like a regular working Joe or him using his webbing like a matador against the Rhino. Also, quotes like “Wallopin’ websnappers!” don’t really lend themselves to a serious crime fighter now do they?

Comedy didn’t just come in that form though, as like a lot of animated shows in those days there was little to no budget for animation. This became painfully obvious in several key ways, such as Spider-Man’s costume not being fully drawn out (see inexplicable absence of web patterns) or footage being constantly recycled (which was all the more embarrassing when you consider the first season messed up the amount of legs on the spider logo, yet footage was often used in the later series).

Still, it brought us plenty of laughs many years after, so all in all it was both weird and wonderful.