Japanese Spider-Man Episodes Now Available Online

In the Japanese version’s premiere episode, entitled “The Time of Revenge Has Come! Beat Down Iron Cross Group,” motorbike star Takuya Yamashiro is given the powers of Spider-Man from an alien who injects him with a spider extract. The alien also gives this Spider-Man the ability to use the Marveller, a gigantic robot that looks an awful lot like Voltron. With his new powers, Yamashiro must defeat Professor Monster, a cyborg alien who turns toys into large monsters that attack Japan.

Both DC and Marvel have had Manga fever over the past year and have been attempting to cash in on this ever- popular genre of comic books. Last year, Marvel released Spider-Man J: Japanese Knights digest, a collection of Manga tales first published in Japan and later printed in copies of Spider-Man Family in the US.More episodes of the Japanese Spider-Man are expected to be posted on Marvel’s website in the coming weeks. The series ran for 41 episodes from 1978-1979. The complete series was at one time available on DVD as a 7-disc box set.