dvd-4-life

What's the timeline for all of their series?

What's available on dvd and what's OOP?

Any future plans(I thought X-Men were a lock with 1990's style animation)?

What's the deal with Fantastic Four 1967(Hanna Barbera)? Can WB release this on dvd since they own Hanna Barbera or why don't they sell the rights to Fox(or whoever wants Marvel animation)?

Deftones

Do you not have Disney+? They have quite a bit of the older animation.

fujishig

They are doing a sequel to X-men the Animated Series called X-men '97 on Disney Plus, I think that's what you're talking about. As far as releases go I think most of the DVD releases pre-date Disney Plus and they pretty much have all they have the rights to on the platform at the moment, I don't think there's a big push to redo them on physical media at least not at this time.

As a licensed property I doubt Hanna Barbera can do anything with the old cartoons with the consent of Marvel. This includes stuff like "Thing Ring Do Your Thing." And I think Marvel must own the rights to even the cartoon-only characters like Herbie.

dvd-4-life

Yes I have Disney Plus but wanted to know if all they have and then some has made it to video home release.

dvd-4-life

What's the difference between Spider-man animated(1981) and Spider-man and His Amazing Friends which came out about the same time?

I do a search with Amazon's search engine and it's for the shit's. First of all not interested in Marvel animated available with Amazon Prime but want to know what's available on dvd.

fujishig

The short answer is no. Some of it has, a lot of it hasn't particularly older titles.

Though now I'm wondering where Pryde of the X-men is...

dvd-4-life

I did buy a lot of the 1966 Marvel titles from the UK a long time ago and not sure if they were ever released in the US.

Is there a demand for Spider-man 1967 because it's OOP ?

joltman

Wikipedia has a list of all of the Marvel animated shows

joltman

In terms of what's available on DVD, it's very hit-or-miss. The only ones I know were released entirely on DVD in the US are Spider-Man (1967), X-Men (1992), Iron Man (1994), Fantastic Four (1994), Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003), Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes (2006) The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008, also released on Blu-ray) and Wolverine and the X-Men (2008, also released on Blu-ray).
Some other shows had a handful of episodes released, such as Spider-Man (1994), The Incredible Hulk (1996) and X-Men: Evolution (2000).

fujishig

Wasn't Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes fully released too? (it is awesome by the way)

joltman

Yea I missed that one. It was also released on Blu-ray in Canada, which is what I have.

The Spectre

Wikipedia has a timeline for the series as shown in the previous post. Disney was supposed to released the Marvel 1966 cartoon back in 2005 and the set got cancelled for some reason. The Amazing Spider-Man set from the 1966 collection was released for a limited time before it went out of print.

With the exception of Spider-Man: The Animated Series and The Incredible Hulk, which has several episodes released here and there in single themed DVDs, all the other series from the 90's are available on DVD: X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Avengers: United They Stand. The only two to have no presence DVD or Blu-Ray are the Silver Surfer and Spider-Man Unlimited. All these series were supposed to be connected, with the X-Men appearing on Spider-Man, Spider-Man having a cameo on X-Men, lots of cameos and appearances from multiple heroes on FF and so on.

Wolverine and the X-men, Spectacular Spider-Man, Hulk vs (direct to DVD film) and Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes take place in the same universe and they are probably the best Marvel animated series ever. All of them were cancelled when Disney purchased Marvel and Jeph Loeb took over Marvel TV and pushed his own shit over quality shows. Like mentioned above, all of them are available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Wikipedia is probably the best place to go for all the Marvel animation projects. Disney+ seems to have almost all of them (including the long forgotten Spider-Woman series) with the exception of the 1966 Marvel heroes, the Hanna Barbera FF and Things cartoons and the Lionsgate animated films (Planet Hulk, Hulk Vs, Doctor Strange, Ultimate Avengers 1 and 2, Next Avengers, Iron Man and Thor: Tales of Asgard)

fujishig

I think they're missing one of the two Avengers anime projects as well, though I always get them mixed up.

I'm kind of surprised they released all of Avengers: United They Stand and Iron Man/Force Works as they weren't very good and were clearly only vehicles to sell toys.

And again, where is Pryde of the X-men?

The Spectre

Yeah, forgot about those. I believe Marvel did a bunch of these anime projects and most of them were released on DVD at some point. The anime series were Iron Man, Wolverine and Blade and shown on G4. There were 2 Avengers Anime films, an Iron Man one and a Black Widow/Punisher team up one.

There were also some motion animated DVD and shows too. There was that motion animated Black Panther that was shown on BET at some point.

fujishig

Oh, right, there were those but there were also two avengers full season anime (neither of which aired in the US originally):
Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (not on Disney+ even though it was dubbed for release on Disney channels in Asia, maybe because of Toei?)
Marvel Future Avengers (which is on Disney +)

joltman

Avengers: United They Stand was not released on DVD in the US.It was released in the UK in PAL format, as were other full series not released in the US such as Spider-Man (1994), The Incredible Hulk (1996), Silver Surfer, Marvel Superheroes (1966), Fantastic Four (1978), Spider-Woman The Incredible Hulk (1982) and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.

PhantomStranger

Those Marvel anime shows are a trip. The Iron Man one is a boring take on the movie Iron Man, while the Blade anime turns the premise into a faux shonen series with all that implies.

On a side note, did anyone ever release the live-action Spider-Man movies/show from the 1970s? Is that on Disney+?

fujishig

I don't think so. They don't have the old Hulk series, the made for tv movies (like the one with Thor, or Dr. Strange, or even the more recent Generation X), same for the old Captain America movie (and Toei Spider-man, which they even subbed a couple of episodes of pre-Disney Plus).