So far, Buena Vista has provided no official word about bonus material for
Spider-Man - The '67 Collection DVD set. They boost about this release having all 52 episodes of the show (see bottom for details), but haven't told us to expect anything further.
Over in the
news we just posted for
Garfield and Friends - Volume 1, TV-show and comic-book writer Mark Evanier was quoted as talking about the lack of extras for
that release, but goes on to say this:
It's odd. Lately, I keep being asked to sit for interviews on DVD sets of cartoons I had nothing to do with (like I'm on the forthcoming set of 1967 SPIDER-MAN cartoons and I'm about to tape two others) but there's no interview on the set I wrote.
So, thanks to Mark, we now know that Interviews are being planned for this release. Also, thanks to the recently released shots of the cover art for this set, we also know that there will be a "Written Introduction by Stan Lee" included. "Written" might mean on-screen text, or it could refer to something by way of an insert. All we know so far is what's on the box.
Speaking of which, Buena Vista released a new shot of the box yesterday, which better shows off the package:
Finally today, we've had a few questions about where we are getting the episode count of "52" from, because people are counting more than 70 "story titles" in the series. 52 is the official count from Buena Vista, and it's the official count of half-hour episodes that were aired. Many of the episodes include two different stories. Here, courtesy of
TVTome.com, is the list of half-hour episodes. Ones that contains multiple stories show both titles, separated by a "/":
"The Power of Doctor Octopus / Sub-Zero For Spidey", "Where Crawls the Lizard / Electro the Human Lightning Bolt", "The Menace of Mysterio", "The Sky is Falling / Captured By J. Jonah Jameson", "Never Step On a Scorpion / Sands of Crime", "Diet of Destruction / The Witching Hour", "Kilowatt Kaper / The Peril of Parafino", "Horn of the Rhino", "The One-Eyed Idol / Fifth Avenue Phantom", "The Revenge of Dr. Magneto / The Sinister Prime Minister", "The Night of the Villains / Here Comes Trubble", "Spiderman Meets Dr. Noah Boddy / The Fantastic Fakir", "Return of the Flying Dutchman / Farewell Performance", "The Golden Rhino / Blueprint For Crime", "The Spider and the Fly / The Slippery Doctor Von Schlick", "The Vulture's Prey / The Dark Terrors", "The Terrible Triumph of Doctor Octopus / Magic Malice", "Fountain of Terror / Fiddler On the Loose", "To Catch a Spider / Double Identity", "Sting of the Scorpion / Trick or Treachery", "The Origin of Spiderman", "King Pinned", "Swing City", "Criminals in the Clouds", "Menace From the Bottom of the World", "Diamond Dust", "Spiderman Battles the Molemen", "Phantom From the Depths of Time", "The Evil Sorcerer", "Vine", "Pardo Presents", "Cloud City of Gold", "Neptune's Nose Cone", "Home", "Blotto", "Thunder Rumble", "Spiderman Meets Skyboy", "Cold Storage", "To Cage a Spider", "The Winged Thing / Conner's Reptiles", "Trouble With Snow / Spiderman Vs. Desperado", "Sky Harbor / The Big Brainwasher", "The Vanishing Doctor Vespasian / Scourge of the Scarf", "Super Swami / The Birth of Microman", "Knights Must Fall / The Devious Dr. Dumpty", "Up From Nowhere", "Rollarama", "Rhino / The Madness of Mysterio", "Revolt in the Fifth Dimension", "Specialists and Slaves", "Down to Earth", and "Trip to Tomorrow".
