In the mid-90's, Fox had an embarrassment of riches in children's television with Batman: The Animated Series, Bobby's World, Peter Pan & The Pirates, Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?, & Spider-Man. It is the latter series that comes to the fore now with news that, more than 25 years after the animated series ended, Marvel Comics has decided it's way past time to close the plot threads left dangling from the series in a 6 issue miniseries, due to debut this fall.
When the show ended, Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, went into the multiverse to find lost love, Mary Jane Watson. Never mind that in today's continuity, MJ & Peter are no longer a couple, at least for now, but you gotta figure that'll change inevitably, but they were one of Marvel's premier couples in the 80's & 90's, despite the idiotic ideas of separating them, which started with then-editor-in-chief Joe Quesada.
Writer-producer John Semper had to go to social media to note that he is not attached to the new book, as he's working on the new PBS cartoon, Weather Hunters, due next month. Veteran writer J. Marc DeMatteis, who wrote some Spider-Man stories for Marvel back in the day, as well as writing various titles for DC, has been entrusted with the miniseries, which will introduce a villain, Mordun, who came along after the cartoon ended. Semper does have some comics experience, having done some writing for DC in recent times.
Solicitations for the first issue are already out, meaning Spider-Man '94 will drop in September. Stay tooned.
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