In 1994, Spider-Man was down on his luck.
His various comic book lines were being slowly consumed by the infamous “Clone Saga,” which would come to represent Marvel at its height of desperation and excess. James Cameron was developing a feature film based on his adventures, but the project was destined to collapse. And while he remained synonymous with ’60s camp in the television world, Batman and the X-Men had been adapted into massively successful and thoroughly modern animated shows.
