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Sometimes, whenever he's to appear on the scene, a funky jazz bass plays on cue. He even goes so far as to begging for print. Easy Reader, that's my name! Uh, uh, uhhh! As long as it has words on it, Easy would never turn down the opportunity, whether it be a matchbook or a dollar bill. His name came from his love for literature and phonics, even having his own theme song to his name. He's most recognizable for wearing his signature shades, though he lacks them at times. In one segment, Spidey does fight a character named 'The Sandman,' but unlike the Marvel supervillian, this Sandman was simply a burglar who, dressed as nursery rhyme character Wee Willy Winky, pretended to sleepwalk to catch pedestrians off-guard, then used magic sand to put them to sleep before robbing them.Easy Reader made his first debut during the very first episode, as a carefree, jive talking, open-spirit hippie with a reading addiction. None of the characters from the Marvel comic series appeared in any 'Spidey Super Stories' segment. Many times, the scene cut to a pre-drawn panel of Spidey using his web-shooters, with the caption 'Take that!'. He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series' budget limitations, rarely used his web-shooters. Unlike other live-action and cartoon productions of Spider-Man, this version of the web-slinging hero did not speak out loud, instead communicating only with word balloons (having a similar role to Clarabell the Clown of Howdy Doody), in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth.

In many of these sketches, viewers were addressed as 'true believers.' The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator.

Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in criminal activities (such as burglary or assault). It premiered during the premiere of The Electric Company's first (1974) episode of the fourth (1974–1975) season, show 391.Ī total of (at least) 29 segments were produced during the final three seasons of The Electric Company.

Spidey Super Stories was a live-action and main segment on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company.Įpisodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children's Television Workshop free of charge, and was played (always in costume) by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren (who replaced the recently departed invisible him on The Electric Company in 1974).

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