Move over, Bono and the Edge: Now this is the musical Spider-Man I'm interested in! Cold Heat cartoonist Frank Santoro and retailer Bill Boichel of Pittsburgh's Copacetic Comics bring our attention to a pair of posts on the blog of free-form radio station WFMU, in which the secrets of the groovy background music from 1967-1970 Spider-Man animated series are revealed at long last. Here's part one, here's part two.

Everyone knows the famous "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can" theme music, but the jazzy, freaky tunes that soundtracked Spidey's fight scenes and swings through the city have always been a bit of a mystery. WFMU's Kliph Nesteroff tracked them down to an English stock-music library, which is where shows ranging from Doctor Who to Dallas bought them and used them as well. Nesteroff put together an awesomely long podcast comparing the music as heard in the episodes themselves to the crystal-clear original recordings. At the speed of light, they've arrived just in time to make your Monday a lot more fun-sounding.