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Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Gets 52 Eps, 20 Ep. Lead

Superhero Hype! is one of the places running with Disney’s press release about Avengers: Earth’s Mighiest Heroes, but since it was the first I came across, it gets the link. Here’s the bullet points:

Head over to our Marvel Animation message board for more discussion.

Iron Man Armored Adventures Season 1, 2

While TV Shows on DVD has the cover art for Iron Man Armored Adventures Season 1, and scheduled to arrive May 4, 2010 (and they also have news that Volume 3 appears to have disappeared from Amazon’s pre-orders), Marvel Animation Age has the official confirmation that Iron Man Armored Adventures Season 2 is on the way. That’s not too surprising since way back in November, Marvel’s financial statements mentioned a total of 52 episodes (aka, Iron Man Armored Adventures Season 1 and 2 combined), but it’s still good to get official word that the project is underway. Head over to the Rumor Buster message board to discuss!

Animated Iron Man in May!

May 4th is going to be a good day for fans of 1990’s Marvel Animation! Both Volume 5 of X-Men, wrapping up the well loved series, and the complete Iron Man series (and responsible for a whole generation of kids knowing Julia Carpenter as Spider-Woman, the Mandarin as a green alien, and MODOK as a weird creepy floating head) get releases sure to make many people happy! While I agree, they could definitely benefit from some added features (and better encodings in some cases), given the number of years we’ve been waiting, at this point we’ll take what we can get.

Super Hero Squad Season 2 News

Comics Continuum has some new news about the second season of Super Hero Squad! The Scarlet Witch returns, and Thanos is the big bad for the season, while we get to meet the Squadron Supreme, including Hyperion and Princess Power. Meanwhile, Marvel Animation Age is reporting that Nova (the New Warrior and sometime Human Rocket) will also be appearing. Head over to the Rumor Buster Message Board to discuss!

Black Panther Finally Airing!

It’s the show everyone’s known about, but nobody’s been able to see, and finally, the animated Black Panther gets to air! Unfortunately, it’s down in Australia, but still. Here’s Marvel’s rundown of the upcoming episodes:

Episode 1: Jan 16 at 8.15pm on ABC3 in Australia

In a top-secret Washington meeting, Intelligence Agent Everett Ross briefs the government on the history of the Black Panther, the warrior king of the African nation of Wakanda. Meanwhile on the other side of the world, the Black Panther must compete to defend his throne in hand-to-hand combat. Featuring the voices of Djimon Hounsou, Kerry Washington, Alfre Woodard and Jill Scott.

Episode 2: Jan 16 at 8.42pm on ABC3 in Australia

Having been crowned the new Black Panther, T’Challa must contend with jealousy in the royal court while searching for the man who murdered his father. Unbeknownst to him, a deadly assassin named Klaw is assembling a team of super-villains to attack Wakanda.

Marvel also teases that Captain America and Juggernaut will be appearing, while Jill Scott is reported to voice Storm.

Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and the Red Skull in upcoming Super Hero Squad Show Episodes!

Marvel Animation Age has some great news about the upcoming Super Hero Squad Show episodes! In short, look for guest appearances by Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Magneto, the Red Skull and even a return appearance by Iceman!

Saturday, January 9th, 2010 at 7:30pm (ET)

The Super Hero Squad Show “Hexed, Vexed and Perplexed!”
A new villain is in town – Magneto! And he has tricked his own kids into a sinister plot to steal the Vault’s fractals for Dr. Doom. But will the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver do dad’s bidding or help Falcon save the day?

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 7:30pm (ET)
The Super Hero Squad Show “The Ice Melt Cometh!”
Doom sends out his “Team Toxic” to melt the polar icecaps. While Flatman and Reptil are lecturing on the dangers of global warming, the icecap melts and begins to flood the whole world! The earth’s only hope is a cranky Iceman… if Iron Man can convince him, that is.

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 7:30pm (ET)
The Super Hero Squad Show “Wrath of the Red Skull!”
To show his minions what real villainy looks like, Doom thaws out the infamous WWII menace, the Red Skull. But Captain America isn’t thrilled to find his old nemesis is up to his old tricks — and Dr. Doom isn’t thrilled with the Skull’s enormous ego.

Super Hero Squad Show Toys at Burger King

The next big Burger King promotion is… Super Hero Squad Show toys! Four Super Hero Squad Show related Burger King kids meal toys are out there, consisting of Shield Flying Captain America, Gamma Glow Hulk, Real Scene Silver Surfer, Iron Man’s Light-Up Unibeam. They’re not “real” figures, and the Unibeam doesn’t actually have any figure at all, but for collectors of all the wild Super Hero Squad miscellaneous merchandise (and of course, both kids and collectors alike) it might be a great addition.

New Spectacular Spider-Man and Iron Man Armored Adventures DVDs

All kinds of great shows are going to be hitting DVD soon, specifically Iron Man Armored Adventures volume 2, (6 episodes, January 5, $16.95 msrp) and Spectacular Spider-Man volumes 6 and 7, (February 2, $19.94 msrp.)

Spectacular Spider-Man volumes 6 and 7 bring the series almost to the end of season 2, while Iron Man Armored Adventures volume 2 brings the series to almost midway through the first season. Head over to the board to discuss this (and any other animation related stuff).

Newsclips 11/25/09

Given the slow news week as many are settling in for Thanksgiving, I figured we’d give a quick rundown of the week’s events:

JesseVader pointed out that Sir Steve’s Guide has Galactic Heroes News, specifically Anakin’s ROTS Fighter: Attack on the Invisible Hand and Jango Fett’s Slave I: Escape from Kamino

The newly rereleased Super Hero Squad Doctor Octopus and Spider-Man 2-pack features another running change and we’re attempting to catalog the differences over on the message board

And Comics Continuum is reporting that this week’s new The Super Hero Squad Show episode, Tales of Suspense, will feature James Rhodes donning the War Machine armor.

The Super Hero Squad Show Ratings

Apparently the Super Hero Squad Show is doing well… Marvelousnews has a piece about the prime-time same-day airings of new episodes, while Animated Superheroes points to a piece about the Super Hero Squad Show’s early ratings.