1981's Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends animated series gave us the chance to follow up on Spidey's adventures and, besides reintroducing some of the characters that we had already met, gave us a couple of new ones. One of them was the never-before-seen original female superhero called Firestar. The trio of Spider-Man, Iceman, and this new and exciting Firestar made up the Spider-Friends trio, who then, of course, set out to battle various villains of the Marvel Universe. As with plenty of other animated series born in the '80s, today's reruns are a couple of episodes shorter than the original seasons were due to some controversies, which in the '80s were still totally normal things to talk about. But, controversies or not, Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends is still a highly entertaining series, carrying a nice message of self-esteem to the young kids watching it.