The Invisible Hand (The Spectacular Spider-Man)

"The Invisible Hand"
The Spectacular Spider-Man episode
A buff man in a rhino costume holds another man by his collar. The second man has black hair, with white hair on the side, and facial hair.
Rhino interrogates J. Jonah Jameson on Peter Parker's location. A deleted scene which never made it into the final draft of "The Invisible Hand" featured Rhino searching for Parker by looking his name up in the phone book before going to Jameson.
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 6
Directed byDave Bullock
Written byMatt Wayne
Production codeS1E06[1]
Original air dateApril 12, 2008 (2008-04-12)
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"The Invisible Hand" is the sixth episode of the animated television series The Spectacular Spider-Man, which is based on the comic book character Spider-Man created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The episode follows Spider-Man as he faces the Rhino, who has an indestructible rhino-like suit and super strength. In his personal life, as his alter ego Peter Parker, Spider-Man tries to ask out Daily Bugle worker Betty Brant to the upcoming fall formal at his high school.

"The Invisible Hand" was written by Matt Wayne and directed by Dave Bullock. Wayne had written one other episode for The Spectacular Spider-Man before, and Bullock had directed the direct-to-video superhero film Justice League: The New Frontier. Clancy Brown voiced Rhino for the episode and was cast because the creators felt he could gracefully transition between the character's personalities. It originally aired on April 12, 2008, on the Kids WB! block for the CW Network and received generally positive reviews from television critics.

  1. ^ "The Invisible Hand". Marvel.com. Archived from the original on April 12, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-21.