As Spider-Man uses his powers to fight against petty crime, he gains the attention of the Big Man who orchestrates crime in New York City, with attention initially drawn to his fights with the Vulture, the Enforcers, Electro and the Lizard. Curt Connors at Empire State University, where they join their friend and mentor Eddie Brock.
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Peter and Gwen are also given junior lab assistant positions under Dr. Jonah Jameson, by obtaining pictures of his alter-ego in action so he could carry out a smear campaign against Spider-Man that has, at least temporarily, turned much of the gullible city against the hero. In order to help support his Aunt May after the death of his Uncle Ben, Peter is able to get a job as a freelance photographer at the Daily Bugle, owned by the loudmouth, irascible, egotistical, and gruff publisher named J. While harassed at school, particularly by football star Flash Thompson, he is close friends with classmates Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborn. The first season features a shy bookworm named Peter Parker beginning his junior year at Midtown Manhattan Magnet High School, having only being bitten by the radioactive spider and acquired his powers and alias as Spider-Man in recent months.
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Producer Greg Weisman has stated that the show's theme is "The Education of Peter Parker." In keeping with this theme, each of the series arcs is named after a course of study: season one's arcs are Biology 101, Economics 101, Chemistry 101 and Psychology 101, and season two's arcs are Engineering 101, Human Development 101, Criminology 101 and Drama 101.
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The two seasons of the series are each set during a semester of Peter's high school years, with season one running from September to November and season two from December to March. Although a third season was planned, the series was cancelled before production could begin due to legal problems between Disney (who purchased Marvel during the show's run) and Sony Pictures Television (who created the series). The entire series was broadcast in Canada on Teletoon. The series aired it's second season on Marvel's sister network Disney XD in the United States and ended it's run on November 18, 2009, also receiving positive critical attention. The Spectacular Spider-Man premiered on Maduring the Kids' WB programming block of The CW, and received positive acclaim. However, it also tends to use material from all eras of the comic's run and other sources such as the Sam Raimi, Spider-Man film series and the Ultimate Spider-Man comics.
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In terms of overall tone and style, the series is based principally on the original stories by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, with a similar balance of action, drama and comedy as well as a high school setting. The Spectacular Spider-Man is an American animated television series based on the superhero character published by Marvel Comics and developed for television by Greg Weisman and Victor Cook.