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As a form of promotion, it’s brilliant: getting kids excited about Spider-Man at a young age. It even got around the ban on supporting figures with its unseen villain, The Green Glob, which phonetically resembles a much better-known Spider-Man fo e.

Christopher Reeves’ Superman: The Movie wouldn’t appear in theaters for another four years, and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man – whose smash success in 2002 help set the stage for the Marvel Cinematic Universe – was almost 30 years away.Īnd yet a two-minute sketch on public television anticipated not only a Spider-Man movie, but multiple movies that would generate enthusiastic new fans. Beyond a quickly produced Batman movie capitalizing on the Adam West TV show and a few serials from the 1940s, superheroes simply hadn't appeared in live-action form on the big screen at that point. It doesn’t sound particularly groundbreaking now, but in 1974, superhero movies didn’t exist as they do today.

Underneath it all is the sketch’s simple idea that there are Spider-Man movies – plural – and people are mad for them.

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