Marvel Expands Netflix Presence

Marvel, who already has a few of its shows on insta-stream including Iron Man Armored Adventures and various volumes of Spectacular Spider-man, have announced plans to expand their presence on the service throughout the year.

Starting tomorrow, April 29th, with the release of :

• The Incredible Hulk (1996-97)
• Spider-Man Unlimited (1999-2001)
• Iron Man: Extremis — Marvel Knights Animation (2010)
• Astonishing X-Men: Gifted  — Marvel Knights Animation (2010)
• Spider-Woman: Agent of the S.W.O.R.D. — Marvel Knights Animation (2010)
• Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes (2006)
• Silver Surfer (1998)
• Black Panther — Marvel Knights Animation (2010)
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures Season 1 (2009)

Which is a fine mixture of their older cartoons and newer projects, but things get more exciting during the summer as classic hits including the Fox Spider-man series hit the service. A show that hasn’t really been out in the open in years as Marvel has yet to release DVD box sets of the series.

• Marvel Action Hour: Iron Man (1994-96)
• The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Season 1 (2010)
• X-Men Evolution (2000-3)
• X-Men (1992-7)
• Spider-Man (1994-‘98)
• Spider-Man (1967-‘68)
• Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends (1981)
• Spider-Man (1981-‘82)

In addition to the classic Fox Spider-man series, we also get Spider-man and his Amazing Friends and the original Spider-man cartoon with the bad-ass theme song. And its nice to see that Marvel will be including its current series, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes on the service as well!

Finally, Marvel digs into the way back machine to produce these classic series during the fall:

• Iron Man (1966)
• Thor (1966)
• Captain America (1966)
• Hulk (1966)
• Sub-Mariner (1966)

Should be a treat for fans new and old.

DC currently offers up select DTV for instant-stream, but one must wonder when will they begin to offer full seasons of their hit shows?

More on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/news/story/15762/marvel_shows_now_available_on_netflix#ixzz1KpyAcxNT