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[08/23/19 - 07:01 PM]
Marvel Animation Announces Its First Full-Length Preschool Series "Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends"
Geared toward preschoolers and their families, the series is set to debut in 2021 and will be the first full-length Marvel series for the Disney Junior audience.
[via press release from Disney Channel]

MARVEL ANIMATION ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST FULL-LENGTH PRESCHOOL SERIES "MARVEL'S SPIDEY AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS"

SET TO DEBUT 2021 ON DISNEY JUNIOR

Spidey, Miles Morales and Ghost-Spider Team Up With Hulk, Black Panther and Others to Protect Their Neighborhood

ANAHEIM, CA (August 23, 2019) - Marvel Animation & Family Entertainment announced today during their panel at Disney's D23 Expo, a new original animated series for Disney Junior, "Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends." Geared toward preschoolers and their families, the series is set to debut in 2021 and will be the first full-length Marvel series for the Disney Junior audience.

Our favorite neighborhood web-slinger is used to working solo, but now Peter Parker must discover what it takes to become a truly amazing super hero: being a spider friend who works well with others. Together with his friends Miles Morales and Gwen AKA Ghost-Spider, they will team up with heroes such as Hulk, Black Panther and Ms. Marvel, to defeat evil foes and learn that teamwork is the best way to save the day.

"Preschool kids already love Spidey, so they'll be delighted to have Peter Parker thwipping across their screens in this new series" said Cort Lane, senior vice president, Marvel Animation & Family Entertainment. He added, "Everyone at Marvel is thrilled to launch our first preschool series on Disney Junior, the gold standard platform for the audience. We believe parents and kids will be excited about these stories filled with themes of friendship, cooperation, solving problems and using your abilities to help others."

Joe D'Ambrosia, senior vice president, Original Programming and General Manager, Disney Junior said "We're thrilled to be working with Marvel on this new series showcasing the exciting adventures of Spidey and his friends as they model the importance of teamwork and helping others in their community. This is the perfect series to introduce preschoolers to the super hero powers of friendship and working together to help others in need."

"Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends" is executive produced by Alan Fine ("Marvel's The Avengers"), Joe Quesada ("Marvel's Avengers Assemble"), Dan Buckley ("Marvel's Spider-Man"), Cort Lane ("Ultimate Spider-Man"), and Eric Radomski ("Marvel's Avengers Assemble"); co-executive produced by Marsha Griffin ("Marvel's Spider-Man"), and supervising producer Harrison Wilcox ("Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy"). Alfred Gimeno ("Marvel Rising") serves as supervising animation producer, and Ashley Mendoza ("PJ Masks") as story editor.

About Marvel Entertainment

Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy-five years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing. For more information visit www.marvel.com � 2019 MARVEL





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