Spider-Man and Friends
Spider-Man and Friends was a line of
Featured characters
Heroes
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Girl - essentially a female counterpart to Spider-Man, wearing a near-identical costume; has no perceived connection to the Marvel Comics character of the same name or the various characters known as Spider-Woman. Story books under the Spider-Man and Friends brand name suggest that she is Spider-Man's cousin.
- Wolverine - some pieces of merchandise depict Wolverine in his Ultimate uniform while other merchandise depicts him in his tiger stripe costume.
- Hulk
- Captain America
- Thor
- Cyclops
- Iron Man
- The Thing
- Mr. Fantastic
- Storm
- Iceman
- Colossus
- The Beast- for the most part, he is the same as the original Beast, but he is not a mutant, instead having been an ordinary boy (who appears similar to Beast's earliest appearances) who invented a potion that made him grow long blue hair.
Villains
- The Rhino
- The Lizard
- The Green Goblin
- Doctor Octopus
Promo-only characters
- The Silver Surfer
- Aunt May
- The Punisher
- The Sandman
- Electro
The end of Friends
The Spider-Man and Friends line ceased production at the end of 2006, when all toy licenses for Marvel Comics characters passed from Toy Biz to Hasbro; the final wave of figures was released in December 2006.[1]
Hasbro carried over the concept of Marvel characters for the preschool set with a new line of action figures called
While Marvel Super Hero Squad is discontinued, Hasbro is currently continuing the concept of Marvel characters for the preschool set with both Marvel Super Hero Adventures (which spawned its own animated short series between 2017 and 2020) and Spidey and His Amazing Friends (which spawned its own full-length animated series on Disney Junior since 2021).