Episode Review - Spider-Man: The 1967 Animated Series

Episode #22 - King Pinned
Original Episode Airdate - September 21, 1968
Peter overhears how the Kingpin is stocking drug stores with phony drugs at gunpoint.

Review and Media by Stu
This episode fairs a lot better than last weeks, but the immediately noticeable aspect is that there's a good five-to-six minutes of pure stock footage. Nearly a third of the whole episode is stock footage, and because of the stupid new backgrounds, it's ugly stock footage. When I watch it now, I simply fast-forward it. It's that bad.

There is one thing I love about this episode, it has a great Spider-Man: Year One tone to it, and the world at large isn't actually aware of Spidey's existence. This episode even gives us Spidey's first meeting with J. Jonah Jameson, Fearless Publisher of The Daily Bugle. It also introduces Kingpin. They didn't do too bad a job with Kingpin, especially considering we hadn't seen Frank Miller's fascinating take on him over in Daredevil yet. He made for a very good thug. The plot with the bomb was pretty good, but it was overshadowed by everything else.

Easily my favourite of the Bashki episodes. I actually made it to the end of this one!

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