- Title: Spidey Super Stories #43
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- Writer: Jim Salicrup
- Artist: Alan Kupperberg
Wayback Wednesday takes us back to a team-up between Spider-Man and Daredevil under the big top in the pages of Spidey Super Stories #43. After literally running into each other swinging around the Manhattan skyline, the characters will be brought back together at the circus where Peter is sent to take photos for The Daily Bugle and where Karen and Foggy take Matt Murdock as a surprise. What neither hero knows is the circus is under the control of the Ringmaster and his mind-controlling magic hat. No, really.
The action from the main storyline involves the Ringmaster gaining control off everyone except Daredevil using his hat, pitting hero against hero in a puntastic battle of wills before Daredevil manages to knock some sense into your friendly neighborhood web-slinger allowing the pair to take down the villain. Backup stories involve Spidey grounding the Human Kite and Peter going to a car show with Mary Jane and J. Jonah Jameson where both Spidey and Iron Man team up to stop the Metal Master.
The opening segment and the backup stories are a bit goofy (even for this comic), but there’s fun to be had such as the stories working panels of all the mild-mannered protagonists transforming into heroes and the usual origin pages we get for the guest-stars as well.
[Marvel, 40¢]