Why Did SpiderMan Fight Daredevil in a Fat Suit

Why Did Spider-Man Fight Daredevil in a Fat Suit?

Daredevil had to go to some extraordinary lengths the make sure Spider-Man stayed on the right side of the law when Kingpin returned to New York.

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Why Did SpiderMan Fight Daredevil in a Fat Suit

When Daredevil had to go up against Spider-Man, he knew there was only one way to do it… donning a fat suit and pretending to be Kingpin. It went down in The Amazing Spider-Man #287 — and this is going to need some context.

Pretty much all comic book heroes have costumes uniquely designed to tackle whatever threats they may face on any given adventure. Batman’s rainbow suits actually serve practical (and tactical) purposes, Iron Man’s Asgardian armor helps him fight literal gods, and Hawkeye once rocked a tunic that was startlingly revealing. So what lead The Man Without Fear to literally bulk up for battle with The Wall Crawler?

The story sees a symbiote-suited Spider-Man searching for Matt Murdock, and he’s got a bone to pick with him. This book is volume four out of five in the 1987 Gang War story arc, and the two hadn’t been seeing eye to (blind) eye in the previous books. During his search, Spidey happens across a drug den and swoops in to put a stop to it, only to be shocked to find the peddlers are teenagers – and heavily armed teenagers at that. After they open fire, Spider-Man takes the gang down, and in a panel that has aged incredibly poorly, he thinks to himself, “These kids should be at home watching Bill Cosby — Not selling crack!”

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Why Did SpiderMan Fight Daredevil in a Fat Suit

All this time, a seemingly endless mob war is taking place, and Spider-Man is determined to prevent the return Wilson Fisk’s Kingpin to the city. But once Peter and Matt finally do meet, Murdock, ever the idealist insists Fisk hasn’t actually been convicted of any crime and therefore they can’t interfere. They’re not above the law, he insists. Additionally, he argues that despite his misdeeds, Fisk actually serves as somewhat of a stabilizing factor in New York City’s underworld and may help to temper the violence. But Spider-Man will have none of that and when he learns of the route Kingpin will be taking upon his return, he ignores Daredevil’s advice and swings in to put a stop to it.

Drawing Kingpin out of his motorcade, Spider-Man leaps into action, only to be shocked by the strength and reflexes of the rotund crime lord. Noticing something about Kingpin’s face seems off, Spidey grabs at it, ripping off a mask and revealing Daredevil underneath. And so the fight is on. In a particularly embarrassing moment in the battle, Spider-Man webs up Daredevil’s eyes in an attempt to incapacitate him, only to remember moments later that the character is famously… already blind.

As is almost always the case in these hero versus hero showdowns, the two trade blows for a little while before eventually coming to a tentative peace. Daredevil informs Spidey that the elaborate ruse was actually just a distraction to keep him busy during Kingpin’s actual return into the city. “I’m not trying to do the easy thing, but the right thing,” Murdock reasons, assuring Spider-Man they’ll nail Fisk eventually. And legally.

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There’s a lot going on in this book and Daredevil’s fat suit barely scratches the surface of the antics contained within. There’s appearances from Falcon and Hobgoblin, a police sniper nearly blows Spider-Man’s head off, Daredevil literally shoots Parker with Spider-Sense nullifying gas pellets, and also, somehow, a subplot involving Cold War Soviet spies. So The Amazing Spider-Man #287 has a lot to take in. Unfortunately, however, the book never resolves perhaps its most compelling mystery – did Matt make that suit for the occasion or did he just already have it lying around?

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