New Spider-Man

Television series
German title	New Spider-Man
Original title	Spider-Man
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	1993-1998
length	22 minutes
Episodes	65 in 5 seasons
genre	Children's series
production	John Semper, Jr.
First broadcast	September 16, 1993 to January 31, 1998 on Fox
German-language first broadcast	November 19, 1994 on RTL
synchronization

New Spider-Man ( English Spider-Man or Spider-Man: The Animated Series ) is an American animated series based on the comic book adventures of Spider-Man published by Marvel . It was the first animated series to be produced by the then newly founded Marvel Films animation company. The series was animated by the Japanese animation studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha . In Germany, the series was broadcast for the first time on November 19, 1994 on RTL .

action

Teenage boy Peter Parker, bitten by a radioactive spider , has to face many crooks and super villains in his hometown of New York , but also has to defend himself against the press and the false reports of the Daily Bugle.

Production & publication

FOX , the original broadcaster of the series in the USA, wanted the series to deal with the social problems of young people, such as peace between different countries ("The Day of the Chameleon"), cults ("The Battle of the Powers" ), the bad influence of street gangs on their members ("The Young Robert" and "The Return of the Tombstone"), inalienable rights ("The Fall"), drug addiction ("A Worthy Successor") and the problems with stalkers ("Hydroman ").

In order to make the locations of the series appear as true to the original as possible, many illustrations of the New York skyline and many maps of the city itself were consulted. Originally, the city and many of the backgrounds in the series were supposed to be recreated using CGI , while vehicles and characters were still animated in the traditional way. For cost reasons, however, only a small part of New York was recreated in this way and the production team was also forced to reuse many scenes from earlier episodes, which often resulted in a deja vu .

As with Batman: The Animated Series , depictions of violence were also censored in New Spider-Man . Realistic weapons were never allowed to be shown and were replaced by lasers in every episode , but Cletus Cassidy throws a realistic-looking hand grenade in the episode “Venom's Return” and in “The Six Forgotten Warriors” you can also see a gangster with one in a flashback fire real machine gun . With a few exceptions, Spider-Man and the rest of the characters were not allowed to strike with their bare fists. Furthermore, blood was never allowed to be shown, as a result the vampire Morbius drinks plasma in the original version, but in the German synchronized version this was changed back to blood. Despite this small change, Morbius still does not ingest blood by biting the throat, but instead has suction cups on his hands that he places on the face of his victims. People only die in a few cases, mostly they are saved in time or disappear through dimensional holes in other dimensions. Swear words are always avoided and conversations about death are either played down or downplayed, so that the question “Is he ...” is started but is interrupted in good time by the answer “No!”. The personalities of some characters were also changed in the series. So Cletus Kassidy / Carnage went from a serial killer to a simple mental patient and as Carnage he is not allowed to kill people as in the comics, but simply drains their energy.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11th in New York City, the episode "The Day of the Chameleon" underwent extensive changes in its final act: The World Trade Center was removed along with a large part of the New York skyline, as was a helicopter that fell into a skyscraper flies and explodes as well as many similar scenarios. Dialogues in the episode were removed and replaced with others from later episodes or repeated over and over again.

Episode list

The double episode "Mutants versus Mutants" is a crossover between the New Spider-Man series and the X-Men series , which is also located in the Marvel Animated Universe. For this purpose, the speakers of the original version of the X-Men series were flown from Canada to Los Angeles so that they could speak to their counterparts in the New Spider-Man series as well.
In the German version, almost all the speakers in the X-Men series were hired for their roles, only Professor X was spoken by Thomas Rauscher instead of Christoph Lindert . In the three-part episode saga “The Challenge”, heroes from other Marvel Animated Universe series also made an appearance: the fantastic four from the series Die Fantastischen Vier with new adventures , Iron Man from the series The Invincible Iron Man and Storm from the series X-Men . Here, too, attention was paid to continuity to the other series and only had to change two roles: Johnny Storm (the human torch) is spoken by Pascal Breuer instead of Christian Tramitz and Iron Man by Bernd Simon instead of Crock Krumbiegel .

synchronization

role	English speaker	German speaker
Spider-Man / Peter Parker	Christopher Daniel Barnes	Christian Weygand
Aunt May Parker	Linda Gary (Seasons 1-3) Julie Bennett (Seasons 4-5)	Margit Weinert
Mary Jane Watson	Sara Ballantine	Sandra Schwittau
J. Jonah Jameson	Edward Asner	Norbert Gastell
Alisha Silvermane	Leigh-Allyn Baker	Veronika Neugebauer
Alistair Smythe	Maxwell Caulfield	Wolfgang Schatz
Black Cat / Felicia Hardy	Jennifer Hale	Sonja Reichelt
Carnage / Cletus Kasadys	Scott Cleverdon	Oliver Mink
Debra Whitman	Liz Georges	Michaela Amler
Dr. Curt Connors	Joseph Campanella	Claus Brockmeyer
Dr. Mariah Crawford	Susan Beaubian	Katharina Lopinski
Dr. Octopus / Dr. Otto Octavius	Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.	Gernot Duda (episode 1-29) Michael Rüth (episode 30-65)
Flash Thompson	Patrick Labyorteaux	Manou Lubowski
Gnome / Jason Macendale	Mark Hamill	Ekkehardt Belle
Green Gnome / Norman Osborn	Neil Ross	Ulrich Frank
Harry Osborn	Gary Imhoff	Niko Macoulis
Otherworldly	Earl Boen	Donald Arthur
Kingpin / Wilson Fisk	Roscoe Lee Browne	Christoph Jablonka Tommi Piper (episode 14-15)
Kraven the hunter	Gregg Berger	Manfred Erdmann
Michael Morbius	Nick Jameson	Florian Halm Axel Malzacher
Mysterio / Quentin Beck	Gregg Berger	Walter von Hauff
Nick Fury	Philip Abbott (Seasons 1-3) Jack Angel (Seasons 4-5)	Willi Roebke
Red skull	Earl Boen	Manfred Erdmann
Rhino	Don Stark	Thomas Rau
Shocker	Jim Cummings	Willi Roebke
Scorpio	Martin Landau (Season 1-3) Richard Moll (Season 4-5)	Ulrich Frank Willi Roebke (episode 27)
Tombstone	Dorian Harewood	Thomas Rau
Venom / Eddie Brock	Hank Azaria	Kai Taschner

DVD release

All 65 episodes were released in five double DVD sets by Clear Vision Ltd. published in Germany. In addition, a limited collector's edition with all the episodes appeared in the form of a hardcover comic at the end of 2010.

See also

• Spider-Man and his Extraordinary Friends - a Spider-Man "Team-Up" cartoon series from the 1980s.
• Spectacular Spider-Man - a 2008 Spider-Man animated series.
• Daredevil vs. Spider-Man - Duel of the Powers - Compilation of several episodes of the 3rd season

Web links

• New Spider-Man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• New Spider-Man at Fernsehserien.de
• New Spider-Man at Animation Series