In the week that The Amazing Spider-Man is released it seems appropriate that we show, via the team over at Geek Tyrant, what is the very first Spider-Man fan film from 1969.
Made by Donald F Glut, the man behind the Empire Strikes Back novelization, this shows just much Glut loved those old Marvel characters, and why his career led from college with George Lucas to writing episodes of Spiderman and His Amazing Friends and Transformers.
The first ever documented Spider-Man fan film, and the first (unofficial) live action appearance of Spider-Man from 1969! This was produced by Donald F. Glut and was his last amateur film (he had produced many other Marvel fan films before this) before moving on to write for classic cartoons like Transformers and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.
I love the costume (Don Glut is wearing the red and blues himself), it looks heavily inspired by Steve Ditko’s work. And notice the use of the Captain Action Spider-Man figure for web swinging and wall crawling; that goes for huge bucks now. The villain in this fan film, Dr. Lightning, is not a real Marvel character and was just created by the guy’s making the film.