Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

- Season 3

(1983)

While The Spider-Friends are vacationing, The Sandman shows up and discovers Spider-Man's true identity, but the Spider-Friends try to convince him that he's wrong.

While at a dance, Angelica is lured outside by a stranger and hypnotized. The stranger takes her aboard his plane and they go to Transylvania, but not without Iceman and Spider-Man right behind them. The stranger is revealed to be Dracula. They get Angelica free, but still have to fight against Frankenstein and a werewolf.

The Gamesman has developed a machine that will hypnotize young people through video arcade machines. Through a glitch in an arcade machine, Francis Byte, a young, nerdy teenager, develops the superpower to turn himself into an electronic being, Video Man. Unfortunately he doesn't know how to be a superhero. While battling Thee Gamesman, the Spider-Friends help Video Man. In the end, the best help is found at the mansion of Professor Charles Xavier.

A woman named Monica videotaped a successful fight between the Spider-Friends and The Scorpion, and a chemical scientist named Zoltan Amadeus is collecting data on Spider-Man and plans to retain the powers of Spider-Man and use them for his own financial gain and framing the real Spider-Man, but problems arise when Zoltan's powers change him into a half man/half spider creature called The Arachnoid.

Stan Lee narrates how Spider-Man, Iceman and Firestar first joined forces to battle the Beetle, and become known as the Spider-Friends.

Spider-Man meets whom he believes is the love of his life - an alien from the future named Ariel, whose spaceship crash-lands on earth. As Spidey tries to nurture his relationship with Ariel, Doctor Octopus steals the spaceship to carry out a plan to kidnap well-armed criminals from the future.

The Spider-Friends meet the X-Men and battle a cyborg.

The Spider-Friends are hired by the counter-terrorism agency S.H.I.E.L.D. to capture a mutant named Lightwave, who is said to be after the Guarstar satellite. Lightwave who turns out to be Aurora Dante, a half-sister of Iceman/Bobby Drake. The Spider-Friends and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents learn that Lightwave (whose mutant power is to control and manipulate light energy) is being controlled by someone else who is after the Guardstar.