A recently unearthed interview with Stan Lee reveals the Marvel Comics legend didn’t like the 1970s Spider-Man TV series.
With Spider-Man, I felt the people who did the live-action series left out the very elements that made the comic book popular …
Lee, together with artist Steve Ditko, created the iconic webslinger nearly 55 years years ago, who made his debut in Amazing Fantasy #15.
In a recently unearthed interview with Emmy TV Legends (via THR), Lee says he wasn’t a fan of The Amazing Spider-Man — an hour-long action adventure crime series that ran on CBS from 1977-79 — that starred Nicholas Hammond as Parker/Spider-Man.