'The One-Eyed Idol'.
An Australian villain, Harley Clivendon (voice of Chris Wiggins), who dresses like a big game hunter, uses an African artifact to hypnotize Jameson into robbing from the Daily Bugles' own coffers.
When watching this segment, you have to remind yourself that this was written and animated almost 57 years ago; some of the material & images would have been seen as problematic, not just now, in our current politically correct climate, but even then. But, overall, this is a typical snappy short Spider-Man segment, with an amusing bad guy and standard witticisms from Spidey. Jameson is hysterical as usual, and has some of the best lines. "There shouldn't be any women at all in this world! Just children, and men!" But he has to swallow his pride and apologize to Betty after he's accused her of the thievery.
'Fifth Avenue Phantom'.
The title villain (voiced by Max Ferguson), who looks like a human-sized Jawa, uses female automatons to shrink various valuables - jewelry, fur coats, even automobiles - to toy size, and then abscond with them, so he can later restore them to normal size and sell them dear.
The female robots are the best thing about this segment, which offers some real fun, even if, in the end, Spidey does defeat The Phantom pretty quickly.
Seven out of 10.
An Australian villain, Harley Clivendon (voice of Chris Wiggins), who dresses like a big game hunter, uses an African artifact to hypnotize Jameson into robbing from the Daily Bugles' own coffers.
When watching this segment, you have to remind yourself that this was written and animated almost 57 years ago; some of the material & images would have been seen as problematic, not just now, in our current politically correct climate, but even then. But, overall, this is a typical snappy short Spider-Man segment, with an amusing bad guy and standard witticisms from Spidey. Jameson is hysterical as usual, and has some of the best lines. "There shouldn't be any women at all in this world! Just children, and men!" But he has to swallow his pride and apologize to Betty after he's accused her of the thievery.
'Fifth Avenue Phantom'.
The title villain (voiced by Max Ferguson), who looks like a human-sized Jawa, uses female automatons to shrink various valuables - jewelry, fur coats, even automobiles - to toy size, and then abscond with them, so he can later restore them to normal size and sell them dear.
The female robots are the best thing about this segment, which offers some real fun, even if, in the end, Spidey does defeat The Phantom pretty quickly.
Seven out of 10.
