After 28 Years, Marvel Reveals Official First Look at the Conclusion to Iconic Spider-Man Animated Cliffhanger

Published Oct 23, 2026, 2:09 PM EDT CBR senior staff writer Brian Cronin has been writing professionally about comic books for twenty years now at CBR (primarily with his “Comics Should Be Good” series of columns, including Comic Book Legends Revealed). He has written two books about comics for Penguin-Random House – Was Superman a Spy? And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed and Why Does Batman Carry Shark Repellent? And Other Amazing Comic Book Trivia! and one book, 100 Things X-Men Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, from Triumph Books. His writing has been featured at ESPN.com, the Los Angeles Times, About.com, the Huffington Post, Vulture and Gizmodo. He features legends about entertainment and sports and other pop culture features at Pop Culture References. Follow him on Twitter at @Brian_Cronin and feel free to e-mail him suggestions for stories about comic books that you'd like to see featured at brianc@cbr.com! As all fans of the 1990s Spider-Man Animated Series know (and as we have pointed out in a number of articles), the final season of the series ended on a cliffhanger, with Mary Jane Watson (who had only recently reunited with Peter Parker after she was seemingly...