... R.I.P.
Until his tragic murder upon the big screen by Toby McGuire et al, Spiderman was far and away the coolest superhero in the universe. I so wanted to be him. I used to go around listening intently to my "Spidey Senses" and getting into trouble for climbing on the school roof. I loved both the comic books and the cartoon and he had all the best one-liners and witty comebacks.
The cartoon used to be on "Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade" a rather odd Sunday afternoon tv show with an old dude called 'Glen Michael' (real name: Cecil Buckland!) who, rather amazingly isn't dead yet. He would, with the help of a parafin lamp (?) introduce all the cartoons like Mr Magoo, The Whacky Races and ...The Amazing Spiderman. Yey! Cecil would pretend that he was producing the cartoons by magic, using various 'special' effects (such as his own head floating in space) which, even as a six year old, I thought were pretty rubbish..."just get on with the cartoons, you old twit!"
One time, I fell out with everybody at home (I can't remember what it was I was right about in the particular instance, but it would've been serious) and stormed out of the house saying that I was leaving home and never coming back...at the door Neil quipped "see you for Cartoon Cavalcade" and I went mental on him! "I'm not coming back! EVER!" So - I went down the woods and decided I would make a house for myself down there...messed about with branches for a bit, got bored, got hungry and went home. To tragedy. I was indeed back in time for Cavalcade - but had missed Spiderman! ...It still hurts a bit now. I will never know what the Webbed Wonder was up to in that episode - no amount of huffing has ever cost a man so dearly....*sigh*
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