"I felt very restricted by the half-hour format (which these days boils down to only 22 minutes of ACTUAL screen time) and I had always wanted to play around with something longer. In the sixties, when I first became a hard-core Spider-Man fan, part of the charm of the series was that the stories went on forever. Stan Lee was the first to do a "longform" comic book with a continuing story line, and I wanted to do for Saturday morning TV exactly what Stan did for comics in the sixties. Everybody was vehemently opposed to the idea (network, studio, etc), but I just did it anyway. I had to wait until the second batch of thirteen episodes and then I did it when nobody was paying much attention."
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1990s American animated TV showsTraditionally animated TV showsAmerican children's animated adventure TV showsAmerican children's animated action TV showsAmerican children's animated drama TV shows
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John Semper, "John Semper Talks Venom From Spider-Man: The Animated Series", Marvel Animation Age.
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