 Weisman wanted to incorporate the early stages of the comic when Stan Lee and Steve Ditko where the character was in his younger stages ; Cook agreed because he had yet to see it done before in any type of adaptation for the character . Other influences on the style were the Ultimate Spider @-@ Man comics and the live action film adaptions of the comic publications . When the idea was changed to an animated television series , they still kept a similar chronicle style where " each episode stands alone as its own story , but like the comic book itself it ’ s a saga . Then each three episodes is a story and those three episodes are what would be on the DVD releases . " 
