New Spider-Man cartoon in the works

After a successful run in the mid nineties with Spider-Man The Animated Series, which was followed by the MTV series Spider-Man: The New Animated Series in 2003, our favorite web head is headed back to the small screen in 2008.

Tentatively titled “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the new series is being produced by Culver Entertainment and will premiere on Kids’ WB! on The CW Network, the No.1 rated Saturday morning kids broadcast slate.

Riding the crest of Sony’s anticipated summer blockbuster “Spider-Man 3,” the new animated series picks up the original web-slinger’s mythology at the beginning of his hero’s journey – as a not-so-typical 16-year-old entering his junior year of high school. Having spent the summer engaging common criminals with his new-found powers, Peter Parker must conceal his secret identity while engaging a new level of terror – the multi-leveled pressures of teenage life at home and school while combating bigger, badder super-villains in the real world.