Japanese Spider-Man figures surge now: collectors rediscover *Supaidāman*

Japanese Spider-Man figures based on Marvel’s 1978 Supaidāman TV series are now out from Hot Toys, Hasbro’s Marvel Legends line, and Bandai’s S.H.Figuarts. That’s put the cult show back in front of collectors again.

What stands out here isn’t one single “most valuable” figure. It’s the growing appetite for premium Supaidāman releases. Plenty of collectors are into the bold design, and there’s a real novelty to seeing Japanese Spider-Man displayed next to the more familiar versions. At the same time, some collectors are still hoping for better accessories and screen-accuracy that’s a little tighter.

If you collect Marvel figures, this is a wave worth picking up. Supaidāman is Takuya Yamashiro not Peter Parker. He gets his powers from an alien from Planet Spider, in a tokusatsu, melodramatic, monster-of-the-week reworking that Stan Lee later praised. And Leopardon matters too. It helped shape the giant-robot formula that ran into Super Sentai and later Power Rangers. You can still see why Japanese Spider-Man has stuck around through the Spider-Verse comics, through fan talk about future animated films, and through the Disney+ Marvel’s 616 episode on the 41-episode series. Coverage is still fairly limited outside U.S. and Japanese collector circles, and there still isn’t much public detail on how the newest figures were designed.

You can find the figures through the usual collector retailers, and you can watch Marvel’s 616 on Disney+.