28 years ago the Spider-Man animated series got really weird—thanks to Madame Web
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When Sony agreed to share the movie rights to Spider-Man with Disney and Marvel Studios, it decided to capitalize on the MCU’s success with the character by developing a series of Spider-Man-adjacent films without Spider-Man. Some of these make perfect sense, since Venom is so popular that he can carry a movie easily,…