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Spider-Man - The Treasure, the Dog and the Body Double / episode 25

Japan 1978
produced by
Toru Hirayama, Susumu Yoshikawa for Toei
directed by Koichi Takemoto
starring Shinji Toudou, Mitsuo Ando, Izumi Oyama, Rika Miura, Yukie Kagawa
written by Shozo Uehara, based on the Marvel Comics-character Spider-Man created by Stan Lee (writer), Steve Ditko (artist)

TV-series
Spider-Man, Japanese Spider-Man

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Nakayama seems to be nothing more than a poor cabby and a loving grandpa to Noboyuki, whom he raises after the boy's mother has died - but the evil Iron Cross Army has found out that until 5 years ago, he was a master thief, and he has stolen the most valuable diamond The Eye of Egypt ... and since the Iron Cross Army is quite so evil, Nakayama is captured and tortured so he can be made to give away his secret ... but he remains mum. When Nakayama tries to get away, he is killed ...

Amazoness (Yukie Kagawa), second-in-command of the Iron Cross Army figures that Nakayama must have somehow passed the location of the Eye of Egypt on to his grandson and has him captured - but Noboyuki is a friend of Spicer-Man (Shinji Todou), who naturally saves the boy. So the Army produces a body double of Nakayama to convince Noboyuki to talk, and it works, Noboyuki hands a locket containing a map to the diamond over to his grandpa's body double, and learns he has made a mistake only way too late. But of course, Spider-Man interferes again and defeats the Iron Cross Army and its giant guest monster, also with the help of his giant robot Marveller/Leopardon. The locket witht he treasure map gets destroyed in the fight though, and the Eye is lost forever after, and Spidey doesn't have the nerve to tell Noboyuki that his grandfather once was a master thief ...

Another rather forgettable Spider-Man episode, putting way too much focus on the cheesy aspects of its story to remain even remotely interesting. Plus, another episode that proves my point that the Spider-Man stories featuring little boys are among the weakest.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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