Just the other day, Kirk Warren at The Weekly Crisis mentioned that he’d bought the name spiderfail.org after seeing it mentioned in Amazing Spider-Man #601 (there’s already a site up, and it’s funny!). All the Spider-Man talk inspired me to put together today’s post since it was one I had planned in the back of my mind anyway.
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #27 is included in the Miller Daredevil Omnibus Companion and actually marks the first time he pencilled Daredevil who is the guest star of the two-parter “The Blind Leading the Blind.” The story is written by Bill Mantlo. I wish I could say that it’s a great story, but I must admit that the whole thing is pretty bizarre. I guess the concept is okay (the Masked Marauder blinds Spider-Man with his blinding ray and Daredevil has to help him out), but the delivery is characterized by amateurish pop psychology and Spider-Man going batshit insane. Of course, that also makes it pretty funny in ways that I don’t think were intentional. Let’s have a look…
Below (click to enlarge) is page two of this story which begins when Daredevil shows up at the scene to help a wildly out of control Spider-Man who’s just told him that he’s gone blind. Good of the Masked Marauder (also known as a former landlord of Nelson & Murdock’s) to use his blinding technology on someone who isn’t already blind though, don’t you think? Daredevil is doing his best to help out without going so far as to reveal that his is blind himself. Spidey, meanwhile isn’t being particularly co-operative…
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