The Vision's first animated appearance!

 

I am watching the 1981 Spider-Man cartoon series.  This was syndicated back then, and contained 26 episodes.  It is... mostly entertaining, but of course, there were no fights at all.  Another interesting thing is that Doctor Doom was the main villain, appearing in six episodes.  More than the Kingpin, more than Doc Ock, more than the ferkin Green Goblin!  Only JJJ appeared more as a villain.  It is an odd choice, for sure.  Be that as it may, in the episode Arsenic and Aunt May, Peter comes home and May turns on the telly so Peter can watch a new show, starring The Avengers.  It is just a brief glimpse, but this is what we see!

I do believe this is the first animated appearance of The Vision.  He doesn't move at all, since it is just a short shot before the action moves back to "real life" between Peter and Aunt May.  Wanda had showed up in the 1966 Captain America cartoon, since they just pulled a story from the Avengers and made it appear to be a Cap story.  It was exciting for me to see the Vision here though.  I have four episodes of this show left to watch, then I move on to Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends.  I know that show has a lot more guest heroes.  We will see if the Vision shows up there.  

 oh yeah, there is a future issue of Xenorama about Spidey in the works.