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Podcast: Marvel Versus Marvel
Episode: The ORIGINAL X-Men Cartoon! A Deep-Dive Into Marvel In The 80’s And The FAILED X-Men Series “Pryde Of The X-Men” - Part Two
Description: Before the smash-hit success of X-Men The Animated Series in 1992, Marvel made a pilot for an Eighties X-Men cartoon series … which failed! Join Rob and Will for a deep-dive into the original mutant cartoon “Pryde Of The X-Men”! We explore why this cartoon FAILED and how it’s so different to the 90’s series! Where did Marvel get the money to make this pilot? Is this 1989 theme song better than the iconic one from the 90’s? Should Stan Lee be involved? And why is Wolverine Australian?! Plus we’ll dig into tons of classic comic book trivia about Magneto, Wolverine, Cyc...