Marvel To Abridge Their Classic Cartoons On Disney XD's MARVEL MASH-UP

What's that? 1980's Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends to return to airwaves? The voice actor of SpongeBob Squarepants to voice....Dr. Doom?!.

By MarkJulian - Mar 20, 2012 10:03 AM EST

Filed Under: Animated Features

Source: Marvel

Per Marvel.com:

“We were inspired by things that fans had done on the internet with our old footage, and so we thought, ‘Well, what if we did some of that ourselves, but with a distinctive Marvel sense of humor,’” explains Vice President, Animation Development & Production Cort Lane of the series’ origins.

“We started on a pilot,” recounts Lane. “We decided ‘Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends’ is such an iconic, classic cartoon that that’s the first one we’re using. We will also be using the ‘Incredible Hulk’ series from 1982, and later on we’ll be using the ‘Fantastic Four’ series from 1978.”

“We just went at it, taking sections, re-editing them, trying to do dialogue with them, and we got in the booth with some amazing voice actors such as Tom Kenney, the voice of SpongeBob Squarepants and Doctor Octopus on ‘Ultimate Spider-Man.’ We even encouraged the voice talent to riff off of our script.”

“We’re doing eight of them, and they are focused on introducing kids to characters they’ll see in Marvel Universe block and want to know more about,” Lane divulges. “I can tell you that we’re doing them for Iron Man, Iron Fist, White Tiger, and even villains like Doctor Octopus.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends is an animated series produced by Marvel Productions starring established Marvel Comics characters Spider-Man, Iceman and the original Firestar. As a trio called the Spider-Friends, they fought against various villains.

Originally broadcast on NBC as a Saturday morning cartoon, the series ran first-run original episodes for three seasons, from 1981 to 1983, then aired repeats for an additional two years (from 1984 to 1986). Alongside the 1981 Spider-Man animated series, Amazing Friends was later re-aired in the late 1980s as part of the 90 minute Marvel Action Universe (not to be confused with 1977's The Marvel Action Universe), a syndicated series that was used as a platform for old and new Marvel-produced animated fare (the newer programming featured RoboCop: The Animated Series, Dino-Riders and on occasion “X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men”, which was intended to serve as a pilot for a potential X-Men animated series).

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33 Comments

Name - 3/20/2012, 11:04 AM

Atleast i'll have spiderman and avengers.

superotherside - 3/20/2012, 11:12 AM

Heh. That's different I guess... ;P

ThaMessenger07 - 3/20/2012, 11:16 AM

They Need to do the Fantastic 4 Episode with Magneto from the 80's....That would be hilarious!

Dedpool - 3/20/2012, 11:23 AM

DUDE!! This sounds like so much fun!!!

webheaded - 3/20/2012, 11:28 AM

Hahaha! The memes have finally been heard!

valeriesghost - 3/20/2012, 11:34 AM

This is gonna be sweet!

THEHAWK - 3/20/2012, 11:35 AM

As an active abridger, I approve of this concept!

headlopper - 3/20/2012, 11:36 AM

This song is so ingrained in my mind, it's the only proof I need in a foreign country to prove I'm American.

I just sing this song , and I'm threw!

headlopper - 3/20/2012, 11:38 AM

...also cool!

Name - 3/20/2012, 11:46 AM

I just sing this song , and I'm threw

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lol

ROBBEATZZZ - 3/20/2012, 12:01 PM

not really new news..spidey and his amazing friends was on DX early SUN mornings along with 90s spider man..90s xmen..90s hulk/ Ironman..fantastic 4 and siver surfer..most of these still air every weekend between 12am and 4am Sun mornings

ROBBEATZZZ - 3/20/2012, 12:04 PM

earths mightiest also...:)

Codeseven - 3/20/2012, 12:09 PM

TheSharkKnight @ can you get any more juvenile?

MarkJulian - 3/20/2012, 12:18 PM

@Robbeatzzz You do know what abridged means don't you?

headlopper - 3/20/2012, 12:22 PM

@monkeyballs3- Those Spidey things are the best! Thanx

spectre88 - 3/20/2012, 12:26 PM

They should air new episodes of Spectacular Spider-Man =) And make a final season of the 90's Spider-Man...or at least a 2 hour TV finale.

beane2099 - 3/20/2012, 1:07 PM

I feel like whatever they do won't be as good as what we'd see from a fan man abridge. Then again there are some God awful abridged shorts too.

BatmanFTW - 3/20/2012, 1:23 PM

I feel like they should do something like Harvey Birdman Atorney at Law did with Hanna Barbera cartoons

bobevanz - 3/20/2012, 2:17 PM

.....

Mr2099 - 3/20/2012, 2:18 PM

I will watch that. And Ultimate Spider-Man. ABSOLUTELY!!!!

13echo - 3/20/2012, 2:40 PM

Blasphemer!!!!

CyberBishop - 3/20/2012, 4:22 PM

Thanks for posting that monkeyballs3... I had not seen those in ages!

CPBuff22 - 3/20/2012, 5:37 PM

Hey Marvel/Disney how about you release Spider-man & his Amazing Friends to DVD or better yet clean it up for a blu-ray release?

Spidey1996 - 3/20/2012, 7:21 PM

Spidey rules!

hartley07 - 3/20/2012, 10:45 PM

pork chop sandwiches!

mrHJK - 3/20/2012, 11:02 PM

"IT'S A TRIPLE RAINBOW!!!"
"SOME ONE NEEDS A HUG :D"

looks better than USM show

Bread - 3/21/2012, 4:12 AM

He's voicing Doc Oc not Doom

comicb00kguy - 3/21/2012, 6:29 AM

These "mash-ups" could be fun. At least the good thing is we're finally getting some new Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Hope they're as good as the first season.

ROBBEATZZZ - 3/21/2012, 1:28 PM

@GraphicCity...lol my bad dude..that part got past me..

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