OOO...Gwen Stacy DID appear in the Animated Series. The Spider-Carnage one towards the end (I Really REally Hate Clones?), she was the gf of the armor Spidey. However, she didn't strike me as the Gwen from the comics and not as pretty either. And it was obvious Felicia took over her role and man she was hot. =P
Noble Kale, born in the 1800s, was the son of a pastor, an abusive man who was secretly in thrall to Mephisto. Noble himself fell in love with a young black girl named Magdelena, who worked for the Quentin Carnival. Because of Magdelena's race, Noble kept his relationship with her a secret from his father for as long as possible. The truth came out, however, when Magdelena gave birth to Noble's son. Pastor Kale, outraged at this, accused Magdelena of witchcraft and had her burned at the stake while Noble was locked away in the basement of Kale's church. Magdelena, with her dying breath, summoned the Furies to take revenge on Pastor Kale and his town. Pastor Kale, fearing for his life, offered Mephisto a deal -- he would give the Lord of Lies his own son's soul in exchange for help. Noble became the avenging spirit of vengeance and banished the Furies. Learning of his father's actions and that Pastor Kale had murdered Noble's son as well, Noble committed suicide. When Mephisto went to claim Noble's soul for eternity, the archangel Uriel appeared and demanded that Noble be spared. The compromise that was reached was this : Noble Kale's soul would be claimed by neither heaven nor hell, but would instead be called upon by his descendants. Thus began the legend of the Ghost Rider.
Daniel Ketch became the Ghost Rider's host after he and his sister Barbara stumbled upon a mob hit. The killer Deathwatch, who feared that they could identify him, ordered them dead. While pursuing their would-be killers, Barbara was shot by an arrow, putting her into a coma. Daniel, who was able to escape, happened upon a motorcycle. Upon touching the motorcycle Daniel transformed into the fiery spirit of vengeance known as Ghost Rider. As Ghost Rider, his personality was completely different, though their personas blended as time went on. The Ghost Rider entity himself lacked memories of his true origins for years, but it was decisively proven that he was not Zarathos, the entity who empowered the Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider. It is now known that his blood line is the only blood line that can trigger the Ghost Rider transformation. Over the course of his tenure as Ghost Rider's host, Daniel met up with his long-lost brother John Blaze (the Ghost Rider of the 1970s and early '80s) and his distant cousin Jennifer Kale.
Being Ghost Rider constantly put Daniel's family at risk and he frequently sought a way out of his curse. Finally, Daniel went on a mission to Hell in hopes of restoring Ghost Rider's full memories to him. This mission succeeded, revealing that Ghost Rider was in fact Daniel's ancestor Noble Kale. At the climax of this battle, however, Daniel was killed and Noble Kale briefly became ruler of Hell, ruling alongside John Blaze's deceased wife, Roxanne, who had been revived as a demonic entity known as Black Rose.
Shortly thereafter, a confused Ghost Rider reappeared on Earth, running amok. He was seemingly restored to normalcy after Dan Ketch reappeared the two merged again. How Dan was still alive was left unanswered at that time....
One year later, Dan Ketch resurfaced in London. Living with old friends of John Blaze, Dan and the Ghost Rider had come to England based on a strange summoning in their souls. They knew that something terrible was coming and that it would be centered in London, but they weren't sure what it was going to be. Their arrival in London coincided with a sudden assault on many of the world's greatest sorcerors, including Jennifer Kale. These magicians had their souls pulled onto the astral plane, trapped from all Earthly contact.
The empath known as Topaz arrived in London, seeking out Dan Ketch. She warned him that things were coming to a head and enigmatically implied that Dan was living a lie. She forced him to recognize a terrible truth: that Dan Ketch had indeed died in Hell.
According to Topaz, Noble had found the strain of ruling Hell to be too great for him and had sought to escape the responsibilities of it. So, he restored Roxanne Blaze to mortal life and fled back to Earth himself. Lost and confused without a mortal soul to balance his own, he ran amok until his subconscious created a magical simulcra of Daniel Ketch. Powered by the lingering magicks he'd possessed as ruler of Hell, Noble Kale had created an autonomous illusion that had lived the past year alongside the true Ghost Rider.
Faced with the truth, Noble dissolved the false Daniel and learned that he still needed a human host to remain linked to this world. The magicks of Hell were fading now, after a year on Earth, and he would soon be a bodiless wraith -- unless he bonded with another host. Even though the Kale curse was supposedly broken, Topaz argued that it was best to find another member of the bloodline nonetheless, since a failure could be disastrous.
Using the strange family connection that had bound all of his descendants to him, Noble Kale managed to breach the barrier around the Astral Plane and brought Jennifer back to Earth and to London. There, she was forced to bond with Noble's spirit after Topaz was killed by a revived Blackout. This spilling of innocent blood allowed Ghost Rider to live again.
This new incarnation of Ghost Rider discovered that he had been brought to England to stop a scheme masterminded by his old enemy, Blackheart. The son of Mephisto was posing as the British Prime Minister Clive Winthrop and was attempting to trap all of Great Britain beneath a magic barrier. Ghost Rider united with the British supergroup known as the Pendragons in order to stop this plan, but the heroes succeeded only in destroying Blackheart -- the Black Mass Barrier was erected and the old magicks were restored.
Ghost Rider clashed with a number of foes after that, including Demogoblin, the Fury and a demonic entity called Flay. Eventually, however, Jennifer Kale embarked on a plan to gain more magical ability. Aided by Satana, Jennifer became a servant of Gaea, the Earth Goddess. This had the unforeseen effect of causing a rift between Jennifer and Noble, as the Earth magic was life-based and Noble was an angel of death.
A group of mystics including John Blaze, Satana and a reborn Topaz managed to separate Noble and Jennifer, saving Jennifer's life. Noble was left floating in the void, until he was summoned back to Earth by the Caretaker and a successor to the identity of Doctor Strange. Noble managed to craft a physical form for himself (similar to the one he used after first arriving in London) and aided Strange in contacting Elsa Bloodstone. The three of them have made a pact for unknown reasons, promising to make sure that the Black Mass Barrier does not come down.
Later still, Noble Kale was reunited with the still-living spirit of Dan Ketch, forming Ghost Rider once more.
GHOST RIDER (original): Ghost Rider first appeared in Marvel Spotlight #5 (There was a Ghost Rider before this, but he was a stupid Western character and Marvel later changed his name to Night Rider). The Ghost Rider was created when stunt-cyclist John Blaze made a pact with the devil to save the life of a friend. Needless to say, the devil (Mephisto) cheated and John still had to honor his side of the bargain and allow his soul to be merged with a demon named Zarathos. This merging caused John to change to a hellfire-charged being with a flaming skull, The Ghost Rider. The Ghost Rider had the ability to form his own motorcycle out of hellfire, and shoot blasts of hellfire which burned only the soul of the target. He rode across the country, seeking vengeance for murdered innocents by night, while living as John Blaze during the day. The demon was finally trapped in a mystic crystal (called the Soul Crystal) with another villain named Centurious. This finally freed John Blaze and he rode off into the sunset. The first series ended in 1984 (I think) with Ghost Rider volume 1, issue #81. John Blaze re-appeared in Ghost Rider volume 2, issue #14. He was hunting the new Ghost Rider (see below) to make sure that Zarathos wasn't back. During a battle with the new Ghost Rider, Blaze absorbed some of the hellfire from GR's body and was able to channel hellfire through his weapons (a shotgun and a knife). This power came about (we find out later) because he had one of the pieces of a mystic medallion. Anyway, Blaze and Ghost Rider make nice and team up to fight bad guys. A new title is spawned, named Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance. This title was cancelled at issue #22. Blaze then appeared solo in a mini-series (Blaze: Legacy of Blood), and in his own series (just called Blaze) which was cancelled at issue #11. (%@&$!)
Known Superhuman Powers: As the Ghost Rider, Blaze possessed superhuman strength, enabling him to lift (press) about 5 tons, and immunity to must forms of conventional injury. He could create "hellfire" that could harm or traumatize a human soul, and with which he created a fiery motorcycle he rode. Blaze possessed none of these powers in human form.
Originally posted by Mr Parker
The animated series is back on fox kids? are you sure about that? I know it was on that network for a long time but I wasnt aware that it was back again?
UK fox kids dude. About a DD series.There was going to be a more grown up style cartoon about him apparently but It never got off the ground.Shame
I loved Spidey TAS I have them all on VCD. Manja try E-Bay, I remember seeing alot of people selling it on there.
I didn't like them using the same footage over and over or the fact that at times it would get real slow and choppy. I hated how they messed up the last ep of The Six Forgotten Warriors when he was fighting Electro they messed up 2 scenes towards the end when they were trying to get him back in the vortex.
I loved to cross-overs wish there were more. Spider Wars was good, Sins of the Father was Great, Alien Costume was done nice and of course Neogenic Nightmare was the best.
Didn't like how they left it open and didn't let us see him find MJ, that kinda sucked. It was a kick ass series!
I loved Spidey 90
2nd Version of Iron man
X-Men
Hulk
and the Second Version of Fantastic Four
I liked Silver Surfer and hated the fact that they (Fox) just took it off....now that's one that I'm looking for and can't find on the net
Yeah VenomVA that's pretty much what I thought. I too have them all on CD and I still enjoy watching them (cheers for that Duo Maxwell!). This animated series was only rivalled by the Batman animated series, and only until now with X-Men Evolution and Spawn has there been a better adaptation of a comic into a cartoon.
I'd love to get my hands on all the Batman AS series, but thats another subject entirely.
Batman and Spiderman are my favourite superheroes of all time, I need to complete my collection.
I found the first two seasons and am downloadding 3-5 as we spe . . . ah, type. I was never a huge fan of the Neogenic Nightmare. It reminded me too much of the clone saga in the comics, which got me off of them for awhile.
Towrads the end it got a little too much like a soap opera also. Too many people just showed up out of nowhere. The series seemed to rely too much on who was helping Spider-Man as opposed to Spider-Man.
Overall though, I loved the show, and still drop whatever I'm doing if I can find it on TV.