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The 1967 Spider-Man cartoon is one of my favorites of all-time. It’s
kitschy and groovy and hit me right in the cerebral cortex as a kid in
the ’70s.

I loved it then and I love it now.

But, that doesn’t mean its flaws aren’t obvious — even if that’s a
significant part of the show’s charm.

It also doesn’t mean it was necessarily a field day to work on the
series — and to hear legendary animator Ralph Bakshi tell it, it
wasn’t.

You might not want to hear this, Spidey.

“What I tried to do with those guys and my animators was to make it
more realistic,” Bakshi, who took over the show in the second season,
said in an interview that was reported by Geek. “I should also point
out that my distaste for comic book publishers and editors rose
vehemently at that point. Marvel Comics could care less what the guys
on the coast were doing and they could care less what I was doing. In
other words, they didn’t give a shit what I did with the show as long
as they got their weekly stipend from ABC.”

Bakshi didn’t stop there: “To me, it was utterly amazing in those days
to get anything realistic. It was all such crap and Spider-Man to me
was real. Marvel Comics, Simon and Kirby and Ditko were great. I broke
my heart to do the show, which is why I was so angry at Marvel Comics
because if they had been even a little helpful, the show would have
been so much better.”

The interview isn’t long but it’s a real barnburner. Click here to
check it out. It’s worth it.

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