Daredevil #133, May 1976
No matter which way you turn,Daredevil,you can't escape MIND_WAVE and his fearsome Think Tank!
Nor,can you escape the stupid adventure,you are about to get involved in.
A city in danger,and only one man can help--the most shocking guest star of all .The incoparable Dejah Thoris!Superman.!-ownership by another company,no matter those guy at New World Pictures think.Luke Skywalker ?No,still not in the theators yet.
Uri Geller????
We were hoping atleast,Sarah Machelle Geller.
Daredevil meets Uri Geller?What ?Really.These those low point books John Byrne talks about in the 1970's.I saw this idiotic book on the stands and could not Marvel Comics wasted money putting such shit.Yes,shit.A Turd ,even after all these decades is what you can call it.Age nor calling it a Classic Marvel Comic will soften the blow,nor the Gil Kane cover.
Marvel used to trumpet the Human Fly as an amazing super-hero because he was “real”. Eighteen months before the debut of the masked stunt man, the House of Ideas had a tryout with another real life super-hero:spoon bender con artist Uri Geller! Yep, the ace spoon-bender had a co-starring role here alongside the Man Without Fear.Poor Daredevil.
Apparently Stan Lee was something of a fan, and asked writer-editor Marv Wolfman to arrange a guest-appearance in a Marvel comic.Apparently,so the Stan Lee Medea guy wasn't first con artist to fool Stan-this guy was. As Wolfman was scripting Daredevil at the time, it seemed easiest to slip the psychic in there rather than offer the challenge to another writer. Geller himself later visited the Marvel offices and amazed the previously skeptical Wolfman with a display of key bending and psychic drawing.Well,after all,with half the staff doing dope,this kind of thing wasn't as hard as it seems. In the letters column article, Wolfman claimed that he’d become a believer.That from the guy who thought Nova the Human Rocket was another great idea.
In the story itself Uri Geller is presented as having genuine super-powers, and uses his abilities to aid ol’ hornhead dispatch the dastardly Mindwave and his Think Tank, when the latter attempts a daring bank raid.The fictional Uri Geller might have those powers,but the real guy,just has people go out in the parking lot,to read lisense plates.Wonder this Uri Geller did the same thing ? The District Attorney himself calls in Geller when he believes that Daredevil doesn’t have what it takes to bring in Mindwave. While Daredevil swings through the Manhattan skyline, Geller takes a cab — Black Widow he ain’t. In the end, though, Geller’s amazing powers save the day when he ties up the bad guy with steel bars using just the power of his mind!Well,maybe he had help from Jean Grey,,aka Marvel Girl hidden blocks away. Too bad Daredevil could jump out his once book and beat the shit out of Marvel Employees.Ohhh no.Look,DD,Broke Bill Mantlo's nose.
Perhaps not surprisingly, issue #137′s letter column featured a major rebuttal from Geller-skeptic James Randi.
Cover art by Gil Kane.
Image ©2010 Marvel Characters, Inc
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