Wherever There’s a Hangup

Reading up on the restoration of the 1967 Grantray-Lawrence Spider-Man cartoon, rebroadcast in Europe last year and set for a complete series DVD at the end of June… early press coverage which announced the restoration suggests Buena Vista replaced the original soundtrack, removing all of the distinctive, jazzy background music, thereby alienating the target audience for this series. However, Buena Vista’s recent publicity for the DVD issue doesn’t address this. I can only hope it isn’t true.