Comics Corner: Daredevil 270

   

Title: Daredevil
Issue Number: 270
Release Date: September 1989

Highlights

• First appearance of Blackheart
• First appearance and death of Abigail Houseman, Sarah, and Peter
• First appearance of the location, Christ's Crown
• The story opens on a hilltop in Christ's Crown where Abigail Houseman lies dead
• The story explains how evil grips the hill, and over the centuries more deaths have occurred here, yet in their wake, the hill has blossomed in thorny roses
• Present times bring Sarah and Peter to the hill, but when Peter attempts to take advantage of the girl, Blackheart appears from beneath the ground
• Blackheart kills them both
• In the wake of his first kill, his father, Mephisto appears before him, and congratulates him
• Mephisto transforms him into human form, and tells him when he meets a worthy adversary that he can reveal his true self
• He instructs him that if too many eyes of man see his true form that he will lose his powers
• Balancing on his hands atop a roller coaster track, Daredevil laments over recent events with Typhoid Mary, but says he's back to top physical form
• Blackheart approaches, and while Daredevil can smell his burnt rose scent, he cannot detect his location
• Blackheart attacks
• From a passenger seat on a bus, Peter Parker sees the wreckage of the roller coaster from the window
• Daredevil goes toe to toe against Blackheart, but his attacks don't make any impact
• As Blackheart swings a brutal fist, Spider-Man intervenes, kicking him away from DD
• A crowd gathers near the fight, and Daredevil sees an opportunity to electrocute Blackheart with a down power line
• Spider-Man catches on that it's what the creature wants, and stops him at the last second
• They instead realize they need to knock him out
• The gathered crowd watching depletes Blackhearts powers fast, and he retreats
• Blackheart returns to his hill, angry, tired, and wishing he were dead so he could rest

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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