So a couple of months ago I was surfing the web looking for information on the new Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon, recently dearly departed from basic cable and now running in that fabled land of satellite TV, and this came to my attention:

It seems that (P)resident Obama and I share two things in common now: we both hail from Chicago and we are both huge fans of the webhead. For a couple of months now I have been spending many late nights downloading the original 1967 Spider-Man cartoon from YouTube and watching it in all its cheesy, recycled animation glory. Now on my ancient copmputer it takes about three hours to download a nine-minute cartoon, and sometimes my feeble connection cuts me off, or won't allow me access to certain videos. Though I watch them in no particular order, here's my list of Spider-goodies by episiode number:

1A - The Power of Dr. Octopus

1B - Sub-Zero for Spidey

2A - Where Crawls the Lizard

4A - The Sky Is Falling

* 4B - Captured by J. Jonah Jameson

5A - Never Step on a Scorpion

*6B - The Witching Hour

7A - Kilowatt Kaper

8 - Horn of the Rhino

10A - The Revenge of Dr. Magneto

10B - The Sinister Prime Minister

*11A - The Night of the Villains

*12A - Spider-Man Meets Dr. Noah Boddy

13A - Return of The Flying Dutchman

14A - The Golden Rhino

14B - Blueprint for Crime

15B - The Slippery Dr. Von Schlick

*16A - The Vulture's Prey

*19A - To Catch a Spider

20B - Trick or Treachery

*21 - The Origin of Spider-Man

*22 - King Pinned

38 - Cold Storage

40B - Conner's Reptiles

41A - Trouble with Snow

41B - Spider-Man Vs. Desparado

45B - The Devious Dr. Dumpty

48B - The Madness of Mysterio

*49 - Revolt in the Fifth Dimension

Asterisked episodes are ones my computer cut off while downlaoding, so I only saw part of them. Also, YouTube only offers the last two minutes of "Vulture's Prey", for some stupid reason. Plus the print of "Sinister Prime Minister" I found was incredibly dark and hard to make out.

These are the ones I haven't been able to download:

2B - Electro the Human Lightning Bolt

3 - The Menace of Mysterio

5B - Sands of Crime

6A - Diet of Destruction

7B - The Peril of Parafino

9A - The One-Eyed Idol

11B - Here Comes Trubble

13B - Farewell Performance

15A - The Spider and the Fly

17A - The Terrible Triumph of Dr. Octopus

17B - Magic Malice

18A - Fountain of Terror

19B - Double Identity

20A - Sting of the Scorpion

39 - To Cage a Spider

40A - The Winged Thing

43A - The Vanishing Dr. Vespasian

45A - Knight Must Fall

48A - Rhino

So if anyone can lend a fellow Spidey fan a webbed hand and send along some copies of the ones I haven't seen, or even better prints of the ones I have, they'd be much appreciated.

The "Up the Demi-Jon Staircase" arc draws to an explosive close in April, one issue away from our big golden-anniversary issue #50. So stay tuned, loyal readers.

Adios for this month.