
He would subsequently become a founding member of iconic supervillain team The Sinister Six - the only one to not yet appear in one of the core Spider-Man film series - and go on to feature in some of the most celebrated Spider-Man comics stories of all time, such the 1987 crossover Kraven’s Last Hunt. Hungry for a real challenge, Kraven comes to the concrete jungle of New York to hunt a more dangerous game: Spider-Man.

Kraven (aka Sergei Kravenoff) is a Russian big game hunter whose skills are so finely tuned that he can defeat any of the Earth’s deadliest beasts with his bare hands. 15 way back in 1964, making him one of the webhead’s first recurring villains. Kraven the Hunter made his first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man No. He also never appeared out of his costume as Peter Parker and, given the series' budget limitations, used his web-shooters sparingly.Let’s start with the biggest name on our list, whose live-action debut happens to be imminent. Unlike other live-action and cartoon productions of Spider-Man, this version of the web-slinging hero did not speak out loud, instead communicating only with word balloons, in order to encourage young viewers to practice their reading skills because he was drawn without a mouth.

In many of these sketches, viewers were addressed as "true believers."

The cast of The Electric Company played the roles of the various characters in each story, with another serving as narrator.

Stories involved the masked superhero foiling mischievous characters who were involved in petty criminal activities. Episodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, provided to the Children's Television Workshop free of charge, and was played by puppeteer and dancer Danny Seagren. A live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company.
