The Amazing Spider-Man Live Action Series 1977

Spider-Man was one of a number of Marvel characters optioned for television in the 1970s, the other being the Hulk, Dr. Strange, the Human Torch and Namor the Sub-Mariner. Worries over children trying to emulate their hero kiboshed the Torch series (but ironically his optioning also meant he was missed out of the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon); the arrival of the overly similar Man from Atlantis killed the Namor series; Dr.Strange only made it to a pilot. Of all of the characters, only the Hulk achieved a long running series. Spider-Man, played by Nicholas Hammond, made it to the screens but only lasted two very short seasons totalling 14 episodes overall. It wasn't helped by the total lack of credible threats to face the superpowered hero.

It's noteworthy that a TV movie crossover was planned between this incarnation of Spider-Man and the Bill Bixby / Lou Ferrigno Hulk; though Universal Studios cancelled the project, it nevertheless suggests the series could be considered to take place within a single universe, and there's certainly nothing that prohibits this. However, for the moment at least, Marvel officially considers this a different reality, and the Official Marvel Handbook designates as Earth-730911 (compared to the Hulk series being Earth-400005 and the regular Marvel comics reality being Earth-616).

New characters

So which mainstream Marvel characters have counterparts in this reality?

Lead characters: Spider-Man

Supporting cast, etc: J.Jonah Jameson; Aunt May Parker

Fellow heroes: None (but see comments above)

Villains: None

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