What If? #8

(April 1978)

What If the World Knew Daredevil Was Blind? (Table of Contents: 1)

Daredevil / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script

Don Glut; Roy Thomas (concept)

Pencils

Alan Kupperberg (credited) (breakdowns, credited as co-artist); Jim Mooney (finished art, credited as co-artist)

Inks

Jim Mooney (credited as co-artist)

Colors

Mary Ellen Beveridge (credited as Mary Ellen)

Letters

Karin Kish (credited as Karin)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It is a question that the dashing Daredevil has often asked himself.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Daredevil; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Watcher; Electro; Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; Owl (death); J. Jonah Jameson; Higgins; Duke Klaus Kruger; Dr. Van Eyck; Judge Lewis

Synopsis

Daredevil's blindness becomes public knowledge.

Reprints

• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #39 (10 avril 1983) [Pages 1-16], #40 (10 mai 1983) [9 dernières pages [9 last pages]]
• in Die Spinne Comic - Taschenbuch (Condor, 1979 series) #20 (1984)
• in What If? Classic (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2005)
• in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)

Indexer Notes

DD in red and yellow costume for first half of the story.

Spider-Man "Spoils a Snatch" (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Spider-Man; Hostess Cup Cake / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Why Not? / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Sheldon A. Wiebe, Dave Middleton, and Joe Jordan.

What If the Spider Had Been Bitten by a Radioactive Human? (Table of Contents: 4)

Spider-Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Scott Shaw

Pencils

Scott Shaw

Inks

Scott Shaw

Colors

Carl Gafford

Letters

Carol Lay

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am the Watcher! I observe... I record... I edit!

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Roy Thomas [the Watcher]; Man-Spider [Webster Weaver] (origin); Aunt Mayfly Weaver; Uncle Bug Weaver (death); Liz; Trash Chompson; Miss Grunt; Culture Vulture (cameo); Marvin, the Hunter (cameo); Rude Rhino (cameo); Green Gobbler (cameo); "Octo" Doctorpuss, the Cat O' Nine Tails (cameo); Leapin' Lizard (cameo); King-Pig (cameo); Bog Dog (cameo); The Stinger (cameo); Weevil McEvil (cameo); The Schlocker (cameo); The Incredible Hog (cameo); Fishterio; Porkius, the Living Ham-Pire (cameo); Electro-Eel (cameo); The Spud of 1,000 Faces, Mr. Potato-Haid (cameo); Barbara Walrus; Raze, the Bug-Spray Baron (death)

Synopsis

Webster Weaver becomes the Mazing Man-Spider in a story narrated by a Watcher-like Roy Thomas.

Reprints

• in Marvel Team-Up (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #2 (September 1980) [Two pages of story reprinted in black and white.], #1 (1980) [first 2 pages, black and white]
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #40 (10 mai 1983)
• in Best of What If (Marvel, 1991 series) (November 1991)
• in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)

Indexer Notes

Credits include "Special thanks to Dave Stevens & C. Lay, 'The Dawn Patrol.'"