{"id":976899,"date":"2025-06-19T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=976899"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T17:50:11","slug":"spider-man-94-reminds-90s-were-the-peak-superhero-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/spider-man-94-reminds-90s-were-the-peak-superhero-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man ’94 Comic Reminds Us the ’90s Were the Peak of Superhero Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the world’s foremost wallcrawler, Spider-Man<\/a> has been known to hang off of things for a while. But 27 years is pushing it, even for him. Yet that’s how long Spidey’s been waiting for a resolution to the cliffhanger that closed out Spider-Man: The Animated Series<\/em>, the popular cartoon show that ran from 1994 to 1998 on the Fox Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series ended in ’98 with Spider-Man following Madame Web’s instructions to find his wife Mary Jane, who had been lost in the multiverse after being replaced by a clone in his own timeline. We never see the two of them actually reunited, an error that Marvel Comics will finally rectify with the release of the upcoming four-issue miniseries Spider-Man ’94<\/em><\/a>, from legendary writer J.M. DeMatteis (Kraven’s Last Hunt<\/a><\/em>) and artist Jim Towe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spider-Man ’94<\/em> is just the latest cartoon series of the era to get a nod in recent years. Recently Nicholas Hoult<\/a> credited Clancy Brown<\/a>‘s performance in Superman: The Animated Series<\/a><\/em> as an inspiration for his take on Lex Luthor<\/a>, and a new Captain Planet and the Planeteers<\/em> comic book released this year from Dynamite Entertainment. There is also the sensation that is Disney+’s X-Men ’97<\/em><\/a> (which we should note also only got a greenlight after Marvel Comics dipped its toe into nostalgia via the X-Men ’92<\/a><\/em> miniseries in 2015). In other words, it’s becoming kind of obvious that the ’90s nailed superheroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So as we wait for Spider-Man ’94<\/em> to finally get Spidey off that cliff, let’s look at some of the best cartoon series of the era and what they did so well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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