

We'd do a roundtable to get the feeling of how the show was going, and then we would record." Broadcast schedule įirestar actress Kathy Garver recalled that though the storyboards for each episode were completed before the voices were recorded for it, ". Lion, a pet, as a character was another attempt to emulate the Super Friends (specifically the characters Wonder Dog and Gleek).


Some of the sound effects used in the series originated from Universal Television's Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Marvel Comics maintained a high level of creative control over the series, with Stan Lee (co-creator of both Spider-Man and Iceman) working with the screenwriters and involving himself in the casting and animation. In pre-production, Firestar's codename changed frequently the unused names include Firefly, Starblaze, and Heatwave. Due to Firestar's popularity with fans, she has since become a part of the mainstream Marvel Universe. However, legal issues about the rights to the Human Torch character (which had also plagued Marvel once before for the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon) led to the Human Torch being replaced by a new character, Firestar, who had similar powers, but was a mutant like Iceman. The makers of the show originally intended the stars to be Spider-Man, Iceman, and the Human Torch. The series was an attempt by NBC to replicate some of the success ABC enjoyed with the Super Friends franchise. As a trio called the Spider-Friends, they fight against various villains of the Marvel Universe. The show stars already-established Marvel Comics characters Spider-Man and Iceman, including an original character, Firestar.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends is a 1981–1983 American animated television series produced by Marvel Productions, considered to be a crossover series connected to the 1981 Spider-Man series.
