The Marvel Super Heroes

This article is about the 1966 animated TV series. For other uses, see Marvel Super Heroes.
The Marvel Super Heroes
Genre
Based onCharacters
by Marvel Comics
Written by
Directed by
Voices of
Narrated byBernard Cowan
Theme music composerJacques Urbont
Opening theme"The Marvel Super Heroes Have Arrived!"
Ending theme"The Merry Marvel Marching Society"
Country of origin
  • United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes65 (195 segments)
Production
Executive producerRobert L. Lawrence
Animators
  • Bob Bentley
  • Dan Bessie
  • Ed Demattia
  • Fred Grable
  • Ralph Somerville
  • Nick Tafuri
  • Bill Ackerman
  • Otto Feuer
  • Chic Otterstrom
  • Russ von Neida
  • Dan Bessie
  • Ellsworth Barthen
  • Doug Crane
  • Irv Dressler
  • Milt Stein
  • Frank Onaitis
  • Bror Lansing
  • Sal Malmone
Editors
  • Hank Gotzenberg
  • George Mahana
  • Walter B. Corso
Running time16–18 min
Production companies
Original release
NetworkFirst-run syndication
ReleaseSeptember 1966 (1966-09) –
December 1966 (1966-12)
Related
Spider-Man
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The Marvel Super Heroes[1] is an American animated television series starring five comic book superheroes from Marvel Comics. The first TV series based on Marvel characters, it debuted in syndication on U.S. television in 1966.[2]

Produced by Grantray-Lawrence Animation, headed by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson, and Robert Lawrence,[3] it was an umbrella series of five segments, each approximately seven minutes long, broadcast on local television stations that aired the show at different times. The series ran initially as a half-hour program made up of three seven-minute segments of a single superhero, separated by a short description of one of the other four heroes. It has also been broadcast as a mixture of various heroes in a half-hour timeslot, and as individual segments as filler or within a children's TV program.[4]

The segments were "Captain America", "The Incredible Hulk", "Iron Man", "The Mighty Thor" and "The Sub-Mariner".[5]

  1. ^ Title per The Marvel Super Heroes. (Animated opening credits) YouTube. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved 2013-10-25. NOTE: The title is rendered inaccurately as "The Marvel Superheroes" at its entry on IMDb and at TV.com Archived 2011-02-24 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 379. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  3. ^ Robert Lawrence interview, Jack Kirby Collector #41, Fall 2004, pp. 42-47.
  4. ^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press. pp. 177–179. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  5. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 528–530. ISBN 978-1476665993.