[2] Produced by Grantray-Lawrence Animation, headed by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson, and Robert Lawrence,[3] it was an umbrella series of five segments, each approximately seven minutes long, broadcast on local television stations that aired the show at different times.

The series ran initially as a half-hour program made up of three seven-minute segments of a single superhero, separated by a short description of one of the other four heroes.

[5] Sixty-five half-hour episodes of three seven-minute chapters were produced, for a total of 195 segments that ran initially in broadcast syndication from September to December 1966.

Generally, the only movement involved the lips when a character spoke, the eyes, and the occasional arm or leg, or a fully animated black silhouette.

The series used the original stories largely in their entirety, showcasing Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and Don Heck art, among others, from the Silver Age of Comic Books.

Stan Lee, Marvel's editor and art director at the time, said in 2004 that he believed publisher Martin Goodman negotiated the deal with Grantray-Lawrence and that Lawrence chose the characters to be used.

[9] In the meantime, series distributor Steve Krantz made a deal to subcontract production of The Mighty Thor segments to Paramount Cartoon Studios, headed by Shamus Culhane.

[21] In September 2004, Buena Vista Home Entertainment announced that they would release a five-DVD set titled "the 60s Superheroes" on June 28, 2005, which would contain all segments from The Marvel Super Heroes Show, each on their own disc.

[23] In May 2004, Maximum Entertainment released two boxsets that each contained one disc for the Captain America, Iron Man, Sub-Mariner and Thor shows, alongside The Avengers: United They Stand.