Gallery: Marvel’s Live-Action TV Shows

Marvel’s editor-in-chief Joe Quesada has let it be known that  upcoming plans for Marvel Entertainment are likely to include some kind of live-action TV series. This isn’t Marvel’s first stab at television, of course: for more than 35 years, they’ve been trying to get their comics the kind of promotion that the small screen can offer. A lot of Marvel TV shows have been animated–the Spider-Man theme song will forever be associated with the wall-crawler–but a handful of them have gone the live-action route, with varying degrees of success. Here’s a gallery of them.

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