Spider man can be a Japanese television show produced by Toei Company, loosely based on Marvel's spiderman character. The series lasted 4 1 episodes, which aired about the Wednesday 19:30 JST time slot of Tokyo Channel 12 to March 14, 1979, out of May 17, 1978. A event was shown at the Toei Manga Matsuri film festival on July 22, 1978. On their site, Marvel published English subtitled versions of the movie and all 41 episodes By March 5 to December 2-4, 2009. While the version of this character of Toei wore the exact same costume the narrative and the source of the abilities of their character of '' the show deviated completely from the foundation material. Besides fighting by himself, this incarnation of piloted a huge robot called Leopardon, which he'd summon to thwart versions of the creatures of their show off. Toei would adopt the giant robot concept into subsequent incarnations of the Super Sentai franchise.