This episode of Splash Pages we discuss the 1997 crossover Batman & Spider-Man
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Published in 1997, written by J.M. DeMatteis, Art by Graham Nolan & Karl Kesel
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Channeling my inner Sophia, Picture it… Sicily 1997
Gas cost $1.22 a gallon, the average movie ticket was $4.59, we said hello to a little cloned sheep named Dolly, and we said goodbye to Princess Diana.
Top Movies in 1997
Men In Black, Star Wars A New Hope, Batman & Robin, Jerry Maguire
Top TV in 1997
Seinfeld, ER, Veronica’s Closet, Friends and Touched by an Angel
Batman & Spider-Man
The Kingpin’s wife lies deathly ill, and Ra’s al Ghul offers a solution: the ailing Mrs. Fisk can bathe in the Lazarus Pit and be restored, but only if the Kingpin helps Ra’s kill off 99.5% of the world’s population. Only the Dark Knight and the Wall-crawler have any hope of thwarting the uneasy alliance in this globe-spanning adventure.
Ra’s al Ghul begins plans for worldwide devastation. He manipulates the Kingpin to his side by infecting the crimelord’s wife Vanessa Fisk with cancer and promising him the cure in return for his allegiance. Ra’s then orders him to press the button on his machines which would send New York City under the ocean. Ultimately, Spider-Man and Batman interfere and the Kingpin reveals that he knows Ra’s’ plans and allows the two heroes to board his plane so they can assist him. Defeated, Ra’s bows out of the plan gracefully but claims that there is no cure for the cancer. Vanessa convinces her husband that she wishes no further violence, and they leave. Talia al Ghul soon gives the cure to Batman, who then gives it to Spider-Man, who passes it on to the Kingpin.
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