Menace from the Bottom of the World

'Menace from the Bottom of the World' is a truly goofy outing for Spidey, as the web-head learns that banks are mysteriously "disappearing". And it's true, they're being sucked right down into the Earths' core. Spidey investigates - after hassling some of the local wildlife - and finds a society of subterranean creatures determined to take back riches which they feel were stolen from them by the "surface people".

Here's where the utterly daft era of Spider-Mans' initial TV adventures begins. The first four episodes of this second season were at least rooted in *some* sort of reality. Here, that's all gleefully tossed out the window as Spidey must save himself from either being snacked on or otherwise killed by a variety of monsters.

And the Mole-Men are very damn funny as well, as they completely bungle their attempts to seize Spidey. He is able to make one of them run headlong into a pole when he deftly steps aside at the last moment.

Complete with an amusing revelation regarding the leader of the Mole-Men, this episode proves to be utterly engaging nonsense. The best aspect *has* to be the excellent soundtrack, in particular the track "Discothik" that plays out around the nine-minute mark. That organ!

Seven out of 10.