The Marvel Super Heroes facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Marvel Super Heroes |
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| Opening theme | "The Marvel Super Heroes Has Arrived!" |
| Ending theme | "The Merry Marvel Marching Society" |
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| No. of episodes | 65 (195 segments) |
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| Running time | 30 min |
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| Distributor | Krantz Films |
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| Original network | First-run syndication |
| Original release | September 1 – December 1, 1966 |
The Marvel Super Heroes was an American animated TV show. It featured five famous superheroes from Marvel Comics. This was the very first TV series based on Marvel characters. It started in the United States in 1966.
The show was made by Grantray-Lawrence Animation. It was like a collection of five different mini-shows. Each part was about seven minutes long. Local TV stations showed these parts at different times. The show was usually a half-hour program. It had three seven-minute parts about one superhero. There was also a short description of another hero. Sometimes, the show mixed different heroes in one half-hour. Individual parts were also used as short fillers or in kids' TV programs.
The five superheroes featured were Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, The Mighty Thor, and The Sub-Mariner.
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Meet the Voice Actors
Many talented actors gave voices to the characters in The Marvel Super Heroes. Here are some of them and the heroes or villains they played:
- Carl Banas - Bucky Barnes
- Sandy Becker - Steve Rogers / Captain America
- Bernard Cowan - Narrator, Odin, Melter, Captain Torak, Morgan, Ringmaster, Sando/Colonel Von Kraz
- Jack Creley - Jack Frost/Professor Shapanka
- Len Carlson - Quicksilver, Loki, Nathan Garrett / Black Knight, President
- Vern Chapman - Edwin Jarvis, Super-Adaptoid
- Henry Comor - Gargantus
- Gillie Fenwick - Baron Heinrich Zemo, Radioactive Man, Leader, Batroc the Leaper, Space Phantom, Dr. Cedric Rawlings, Heimdall, Mister Hyde, Sandu, Premiere Pouldu
- Max Ferguson - Hulk
- Margaret Griffin - Pepper Potts, Black Widow, Countess de la Spirosa
- Tom Harvey - Happy Hogan, Giant-Man, Iceman, Chameleon, Super-Skrull, Anton Vanko / Crimson Dynamo, Borok
- Paul Kligman - Thunderbolt Ross, Red Skull, Warlord Krang, Mole Man, Metal Master, Power Man
- Vita Linder - Betty Ross, Lady Dorma, Jane Foster, Enchantress, Scarlet Witch, Wasp, Sharon Carter, Peggy Carter, Lorelei, Celia Rawlings, Hippolyta
- Don Mason - Rick Jones
- Douglas Master - Senator Harrington Boyd
- Ed McNamara - Swordsman, Titanium Man, Boomerang, Mad Thinker
- Henry Ramer - Major Uberhart, Doctor Doom, Wolfgang, Vashti, Mandarin
- Paul Soles - Bruce Banner, Attuma, Rick Jones
- John Vernon - Iron Man/Tony Stark, Sub-Mariner/Prince Namor, Major Glenn Talbot, Major Corey
- Chris Wiggins - Thor/Dr. Donald Blake, Hawkeye, Kraven, Grey Gargoyle, Byrrah, Balder, Jack Frost, Molto, Professor X, Count Nefaria
- Peg Dixon - Mary Jane Watson, Betty Brant
For a TV station in Boston, a real-life actor named Arthur Pierce played Captain America. He appeared in live-action parts of the show. Other actors also played characters like Dr. Doom, Hulk, and Bucky in these live-action parts. The scripts for these parts were written by Jerry Siegel, who helped create Superman!
Special Guest Heroes
Some other famous Marvel characters also made guest appearances:
- The X-Men — The original team of the Angel, the Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, and Marvel Girl appeared in a Sub-Mariner episode. The story was based on a Fantastic Four comic. However, the show didn't have the rights to the Fantastic Four. So, they used the X-Men instead, calling them "Allies for Peace." But the characters still looked and were named like their comic book versions.
- The Avengers — An episode of The Incredible Hulk was based on an Avengers comic. It featured Thor, Iron Man, Giant-Man, and the Wasp. Later, the Avengers team with Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Giant-Man, and the Wasp appeared in several Captain America episodes. Even later, the team with Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch showed up.
Episode Adventures
Each episode of The Marvel Super Heroes had three short chapters.
Captain America's Adventures
A Captain America title card
- Episode 1: The Origin of Captain America, Wreckers Among Us, Enter Red Skull
- Episode 2: The Sentinel and the Spy, The Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull, Lest Tyranny Triumph
- Episode 3: Midnight in Greymoor Castle, If This Be Treason, When You Lie Down With Dogs
- Episode 4: Return of Captain America, The Search, To Live Again
- Episode 5: Zemo and the Masters of Evil, Zemo Strikes, The Fury of Zemo
- Episode 6: The Revenge of Captain America, The Trap Is Sprung, So Dies A Villain
- Episode 7: Let The Past Be Gone, The Adaptoid, The Super Adaptoid
- Episode 8: Coming of the Swordsman, Vengeance Is Ours, Emissary of Destruction
- Episode 9: Bitter Taste of Defeat, Sorcery Triumph, The Road Back
- Episode 10: Doorway to Doom, When the Commissar Commands, Duel Or Die
- Episode 11: The Sleeper Shall Awake, Where Walks the Sleeper, The Final Sleep
- Episode 12: The Girl from Cap's Past, The Stage Is Set, 30 Minutes to Live
- Episode 13: The Red Skull Lives, He Who Holds the Cosmic Cube, The Red Skull Supreme
The Incredible Hulk's Adventures
One depiction of the Hulk in The Marvel Super Heroes
- Episode 1: The Origin of the Hulk, Enter the Gorgon, To Be a Man
- Episode 2: Terror of the Toadmen, Bruce Banner: Wanted For Treason, Hulk Runs Amok
- Episode 3: A Titan Rides the Train, The Horde of Humanoids, On the Rampage!
- Episode 4: The Power of Dr. Banner, Where Strides the Behemoth, Back from the Dead
- Episode 5: Micro Monsters, The Lair of the Leader, To Live Again
- Episode 6: Brawn Against Brain, Captured At Last, Enter the Chameleon
- Episode 7: Within this Monster Dwells a Man; Another World, Another Foe; The Wisdom of the Watcher
- Episode 8: The Space Phantom, Sting of the Wasp, Exit the Hulk
- Episode 9: Hulk vs. Metal Master, The Master Tests His Metal, Mind Over Metal
- Episode 10: The Ringmaster, Captive of the Circus, The Grand Finale
- Episode 11: Enter Tyrannus, Beauty & The Beast, They Dwell in the Depths
- Episode 12: Terror of the T-Gun, I Against A World, Bruce Banner is the Hulk
- Episode 13: The Man Called Boomerang; Hulk Intervenes; Less Than Monster, More Than Man
The Invincible Iron Man's Adventures
One depiction of Iron Man in the series
- Episode 1: Double Disaster, Enter Happy Hogan, Of Ice and Men
- Episode 2: The Death of Tony Stark!, The Hands of the Mandarin, The Origin of The Mandarin
- Episode 3: Ultimo, Ultimo Lives, Crescendo
- Episode 4: The Mandarin's Revenge!, The Mandarin's Death Ray, No One Escapes the Mandarin
- Episode 5: Crimson Dynamo!, The Crimson Dynamo Strikes, Captured
- Episode 6: Enter Hawkeye, So Spins the Web, Triple Jeopardy
- Episode 7: If I Die, Let It Be With Honor; Fight On, For A World Is Watching; What Price Victory?
- Episode 8: The Moleman Strikes, The Dragon of the Flames, Decision Under the Earth
- Episode 9: The Other Iron Man!, Death Duel, Into The Jaws of the Death
- Episode 10: The Cliffs of Doom!, The False Captain America, The Unmasking
- Episode 11: My Life For Yours, The Black Knight's Gambit, The Menace of the Monster
- Episode 12: The Dream Master, If A Man Be Mad, Duel In Space
- Episode 13: Beauty and the Armor, Peril in Space, As A City Watches
The Mighty Thor's Adventures
- Episode 1: Trapped by Loki, The Vengeance of Loki, The Defeat of Loki
- Episode 2: Chained Evil; Sandu, Master of the Supernatural; Enchanted Hammer
- Episode 3: Enchantress and Executioner, Giants Walk the Earth, Battle of the Gods
- Episode 4: At the Mercy of Loki, Trial of the Gods, Return To Earth
- Episode 5: The Absorbing Man; In My Hands, This Hammer; Vengeance of the Thunder God
- Episode 6: To Kill A Thunder God, The Day of the Destroyer, Terror of the Tomb
- Episode 7: The Grey Gargoyle, The Wrath of Odin, Triumph in Stone
- Episode 8: The Mysterious Mister Hyde, Revenge of Mr. Hyde, Thor's Showdown with Mr. Hyde
- Episode 9: Every Hand Against Him, The Power of the Thunder God, The Power of Odin
- Episode 10: The Tomorrow Man, Return of Zarrko, Slave of Tomorrow Man
- Episode 11: Enter Hercules, When Meet Immortals, Whom the Gods Would Destroy
- Episode 12: The Power of Pluto, The Verdict of Zeus, Thunder in the Netherworld
- Episode 13: Molto, the Lava Man; Invasion of the Lava Man; Living Rock
Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner's Adventures
- Episode 1: Peril in the Surface World, So Spreads the Net, The Unveiling
- Episode 2: The Start of the Quest!, Escape to Nowhere, A Prince There Was
- Episode 3: Not All My Power Can Save Me!, When Fails the Quest, The End of the Quest
- Episode 4: Atlantis Under Attack, The Sands of Terror, The Iron Idol of Infamy
- Episode 5: The Thing from Space, No Escape for Namor, A Prince Dies Fighting
- Episode 6: To Conquer a Crown, A Prince No More, He Who Wears the Crown
- Episode 7: To Walk Amongst Men!, When Rises the Behemoth, To the Death
- Episode 8: The World Within!, Atlantis Is Doomed, Quest for X-Atom
- Episode 9: Beware the Siren Song, Spell of Lorelei, Return of the Mud Beast
- Episode 10: Ship of Doom, Fall of Atlantis, Forces of Vengeance
- Episode 11: The Planet of Doom, To Test a Prince, To Save a Planet
- Episode 12: Dr. Doom's Day, The Doomed Allegiance, Tug of Death
- Episode 13: Let the Stranger Die..!, To Destroy a Tyrant, Save A City
See also
In Spanish: The Marvel Super Heroes para niños
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