Spider Woman 24

Wonder Woman, Black Canary, Black Widow…. NAH!  Spider-woman has always been my favorite.   She has the best costumes in comics and was always finding herself in some kind of trouble back in the seventies and eighties.  Which brings us to Spider-woman 24 which had a great setup and payoff.  In the beginning of the issue, Spider-woman had beaten the pulp out of these goons in the after their first unsuccessful attempt to try and capture her for the Gamesman.  Unfortunately  for them, the stun guns they were using were ineffective since her spider-metabolism makes her immune to any form of radiation after a single use.  Good thing for us and them that the Gamesman isn’t the kind of villain that gives up easily.  This time they surprise her in an alley with a sleeping gas gun and spray it right at her face.   She inhales the knockout gas and falls from the wall she was crawling down from. There is a great panel where she is lying unconscious if front of the two guys as the old guy tells the young guy that he did a good job.  She wakes up woozy and all tied up.  A prisoner of the Gamesman.  The things I would’ve like to have seen are an over the shoulder carry into the car, some panels where she’s passed out in the car with the guys sitting around her, and then a carry into the warehouse.  Oh well!

Bonus Content

As I stated earlier, she was always finding herself in trouble.  Here are some classic bondage covers by the great Carmine Infantino and Steve Leialoha.