MTU 123: Spider-Man and Daredevil, November 1982

[dreamer_easy]

Given the date, this must have been another one of the comics that my brothers and obtained at various world airports as we flew home from our two years in the US. I read and re-read our small collection to death long before I began collecting in the late eighties, and this one has some great lines which I still recall.

Spiderman is recovering from a fight in hospital (where, marvellously, they let him keep his costume on). Meanwhile, the original ginger ninja, Daredevil, is visiting a dying ex-hit man who's turned state's evidence; and a young boy is brought into ER:


BOY'S MOTHER: The police caught the mugger. Do you know how old he was? Thirteen! What kind of world of this where one child kills another for pennies?

DOCTOR TEMPLE: A very troubled world, Mrs Beehan! But nobody's been killed today. Your boy's going to make it! Let's move him, people! And you - Spiderman - back to bed!

SPIDERMAN: Yes, ma'am!


Anywho, the mob dispatch Solarr - Spawn of the Sun! to kill off the hit-man. He says things like "Fat chance!" and "Where's that little slug?", but also "I've still got enough strength left to blast a path out of here and absorb anew the fiery power of the daystar!"

Little does Solarr suspect that the hospital contains not one, but two costumed superheroes! Spidey is soon joined by his crime-fighting pal:



(I have been quoting that line ever since.)

The kid sneaks out to watch the fight, re-opening his stab wound, and gets taken hostage by the terrified ex-hit man, leading to the coolest piece of storytelling I'd ever seen in a comic:



Fantastic stuff. The script's by J.M. Dematteis, breakdowns by Kerry Gammil, inks by Mike Esposito.

I also recently got hold of Captain America 275. Now if I can just find that issue of Ghost Rider where he says, "Ha ha ha! I would love to see such a bloody spectacle!"

Comments

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

Oh my Grud! I used to have that comic. I'd forgotten all about it, but those panels brought it all back.

[tencrush]

I just like how his slippers are are saying "oh, please, please, please, dear god..."

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

It's a cry from the sole.

[tencrush]

Ouch.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, the original ginger ninja, Daredevil,

*snicker* "The Ginja Ninja!!!"







I just woke up.

[gdwessel.livejournal.com]

Never read that particular issue, but yeah, JM DeMatteis writes some good stuff sometimes.

The second scan there is a neat sequence.

However, this is STILL the Greatest Single Panel in All Of Comics Ever:

[Setup: The Dark Judges invade Mega-City One yet again, with Judge Fear telling Dredd to "Gaze upon the Face of FEAR", to which we get the classic response...]

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Aha ha aha hahaha

Reminds me of John Constantine's legendary remark to the Devil.

[gdwessel.livejournal.com]

What, the middle fingered one?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

The very same.

[gdwessel.livejournal.com]

Yup. That's when I knew Garth Ennis was brilliant.