Spider-Woman #23-25 (1980)

Ugh.  Spider-Woman seeks the bounty for a gang of thieves led by a guy named “Gamesman,” whose just a thug in a purple hood.  Despite having super powers, she takes three issues to defeat him and manages to actually date him (he’s not wearing the hood, so she doesn’t know who he is).

I know she’s a woman, but that doesn’t mean that (a) she has to make out with the villain and more important, (b) that she should be stupid.

On the upside, issue #35 introduces artist Steve Leialoha, who will move this book, artistically, in some new, very nice directions. Here’s a great page from that issue.

And yes, she got tied up again.

The art elevates this from a D or D- to a D+.

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