"Here's Mud in Your Eye!"

[flint_marko]

This is the Sandman/Hydro-Man story from Amazing Spider-Man #617-618.

First off, let's meet Sadie Frickett. This is from Amazing Spider-Man #212, by Denny O'Neil and John Romita, Jr.

Morrie Bench has just started to turn into the Hydro-Man when this scene takes place.






Morrie becomes the Hydro-Man and goes on to battle Spidey.

Now, flash-forward to #217...












Spidey hears about the fight between Hydro-Man and Sandman and heads to the bar, where the bartender tells him they left with Sadie. Spidey heads to her apartment, where the two supervillains are fighting over her again.


The two stop fighting each other and go after Spider-Man instead. Their fight takes them to the docks.










The Mud-Thing ignores Spider-Man and heads to Sadie's place.




A week later, Matt Murdock is able to get the Mud-Thing released into Sadie's custody until a final judgement can be reached by arguing that, even though the Sandman and Hydro-Man were both criminals, the Mud-Thing is a new individual that hasn't done anything wrong.

Afterwards...




Backstage Sadie kisses Travis, thanking him for making for a star. The Mud-Thing sees this and starts to attack. As the audience flees, the S.W.A.T. team arrives.










Travis tells Sadie how he thinks they can get a lot of money by making a movie about her story.


I'll be posting the follow-up story to this next.

As for what happened to Sadie; she later showed up in Mark Millar's Marvel Knights Spider-Man #6.



 

Comments

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

"This used to be the skin of a dead Avenger."

Good God, it really says something when I wouldn't want a kid to even read throw away dialogue of a comic, don't it?

[cyberghostface]

Well, MKSM was meant to be for older readers.

[filkertom]

That's good, because I didn't think Clive Barker's run on Sugar and Spike was all that great. YEESH....

< /blocking nightmares of Greer as a human Mr. Bigglesworth >

[misterbug]

That barman keeps a shotgun and a crucifix under his pillow and under the bar. At night, rather than drink a glass of milk he draws another tally on the blackboard for remaining alive one more night.

In other news, imagine - if Millar had so chosen, Sadie might have been the next Venom. Scary thought...

[drmcninja]

That is, hands down, the most ridiculous origin I have ever seen.

"It was really hot, so I literally melted. Bam, super-villain."

[flint_marko]

That isn't his origin; I just posted that scene to show who Sadie was.

From Marvel.com "Cargo ship crewman Morrie Bench was accidentally knocked overboard by Spider-Man (who was battling Sub-Mariner) during the testing of a powerful new experimental underwater generator, the energies of which combined with gases from undersea volcanoes to trigger a weird mutation in Bench, who began to transform into living water."

[drmcninja]

Oh, thank god. That's perfectly acceptable. SO I guess he and Sandman are pretty much like the same person, different substance, origin-wise. Good team-up then!

[halloweenjack]

Sadie seems like a nice gal. I wonder if she's busy Friday?

[proteus_lives]

Yeah, Electro has dibs this weekend.

[insolent_one]

Hey cool! There's Yith in the background of the Marvel Knights scan! (Ugh, it took me quite awhile to remember her name...)

[nemryn]

Is that the snake lady in panel 3? I was wondering who she was.

[thatnickguy]

Out of curiosity, now that some time has passed, how IS Millar's Spider-Man run? I've always been tempted to read it. Although I find his creator-owned stuff like Kick-Ass and Wanted to be the worst stuff I've ever read, his more mainstream stuff is...well, it's still not great literature, but I compare with a summer blockbuster: lots of big, mindless fun.

[arilou_skiff]

I seem to remember MK Spider-Man to be generally good but occasionally punctuated with "What the hell? That's horrible!"

[wizardru]

Idle Thought #1: You can tell how far in the past some of these are, with JR JR.'s artwork being very much like his fathers, before he really developed his own style.

Idle Thought #2: Sadie's body dimensions change CONSTANTLY. Issue 217, last panel of the first page: MANNISH. Most of the artwork is clearly meant to show she's rough-and-tumble, but she's not a super-hottie...she's not an uber-thin porn star, but a slightly-heavy party girl past her prime.

Idle Thought #3: Of course, move forward in time and Sadie is now a rail-thin psychotic she-bitch hottie who wears dead human skins. Read from this what you will.

Idle Thought #4: Ditko: not subtle. Simon WIlliams movie: amusing.

[squirle]

Two men are fighting over her, and she gets "an idea".

Tell me I wasn't the only one who thought that sounded like the beginning of a different kind of team up?

[bradhanon]

Working-class OT3 FTW.

[blackruzsa]

Does she appear again? Seems like she has a whole lot of potential.

[flint_marko]

Besides the cameo I posted, no.