Episode Review - Spider-Man: The 1967 Animated Series

Episode #39 Cold Storage
Original Episode Airdate - January 11, 1969
Dr. Cool and his henchmen take their diamond heist to an ice factory to hide them amongst the ice to fool customs while smuggling the diamonds.

Review by KrankyBoy, Media By Stu
After an unusually down-to-earth start to this story, once again we're into some quite weird territory, with Spider-Man apparently frozen and thawed out many years later.

It was a shame that Spidey's hallucination was telegraphed so early into the episode by the forgettable Dr. Cool, but his future jaunt was still fairly interesting as far as things go. The visuals of a ruined New York are quite a bleak image for a 60s show, and the curiously de-evolved civilization is almost right out of The Planet of the Apes.

This is probably one of the first times a US animated cartoon actually depicted a depressingly regressive future - even if it was all 'disappointingly' just a hallucination!

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