Jason Macendale made a deal with the Devil to become a real spook and surpass the evil feats of even the Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) and Green Goblin (Norman Osborn). He obtained the ability to soar across the silhouette-lines of shadows on his jet-glider device, hurling pumpkin-bombs without being seen. He was New York City’s newest hellraiser, and he called himself Demogoblin.
Harvey Dent was a disgruntled NYC district attorney. He was disfigured horribly during a trial in which a mafia henchman working for mob boss Falcone threw corrosive acid on his face while he was being questioned on the witness stand. Harvey swore revenge on New York which he saw as becoming morally apathetic towards jurisprudence passion. Harvey now carried two shiny silver magnum guns, a coin which he obsessively flipped to determine if his victims deserved the cold hand of his extreme justice. Harvey Dent was a fanatical vigilante calling himself Two-Face, and his rival and nemesis, the ethical and valiant Batman (Bruce Wayne) believed Harvey had sold his soul to the Devil.
Peter Parker was concerned that his activities as the heroic NYC vigilante Spider-Man were not fully countering the nefarious activities of various super-ghouls such as Doctor Octopus and the newest menace, Demogoblin. Peter (Spider-Man) decided to make an alliance with Batman (Bruce Wayne) to stop the likes of Demogoblin, Doctor Octopus, and Two-Face.
Batman was in his bat-cave when Alfred gave him the letter which Spider-Man dropped into Bruce Wayne’s mansion mailbox. The letter was strange and ominous and proposed a promising team-up. The letter read:
“Bruce, my name is Peter Parker, and I’m a photojournalist working for the New York Herald. I believe you may have some secret contact with Batman (the Dark Knight), and I have a friendship with Spider-Man. I propose we encourage Batman and Spider-Man to team up to deal with Demogoblin and Two-Face, New York’s newest demons.”
Batman (Bruce Wayne) liked the idea and sent a letter to Peter Parker and met Spider-Man on the rooftop of the Empire State Building on Halloween Eve 2003. Batman suggested to Spider-Man that they find a way to make Demogoblin and Two-Face team up and fight them together in Central Park. Spider-Man liked the idea and proposed they confound Demogoblin and Two-Face with a mind challenge that would surely frustrate their sense of vanity. Spider-Man suggested they challenge Demogoblin and Two-Face to fight them blindfolded to see if their sense of evil courage would stand the test of humility. Batman was nervous that he himself and Spider-Man may have difficulties fighting blindfolded against the glider-soaring Demogoblin and the gun-toting Two-Face, so he proposed that they keep moving swiftly to avoid any dangers of cross-fire.
Spider-Man caught up to Demogoblin one night soaring on webs and shouted at the ghoul that he wanted to challenge Demogoblin and Two-Face and that Batman would join in the fight and that everyone had to be blindfolded to see which side, good or evil, was the true champion under the stress of a humbling handicap. Demogoblin accepted the challenge and did not tell Spider-Man that he already forged an alliance with Two-Face three days ago.
Demogoblin and Two-Face showed up in Central Park on Halloween Eve 2004 and found Batman and Spider-Man waiting for them. Everyone put on a blindfold, and Batman had tipped off the police not to intercede until they were called in to help. Demogoblin was soaring rather skilfully and weaving across trees and throwing pumpkin-bombs, taking care not to launch anything towards his own side where Two-Face was standing blindfolded and shooting his two magnums. Spider-Man soared here and there until he was able to jump onto Demogoblin’s body; he cleverly said to the ghoul that his blindfold had taken away his power of shadow-lurking. Meanwhile, Batman was able to tie up Two-Face’s feet with his rope-gun even though he was blindfolded. Two-Face started shooting his guns towards the direction of the rope-gun, and Batman kept swinging left and right as he brought the tied-up villain towards him. It was over.
The police arrived on the scene and took Demogoblin and Two-Face to Arkham Asylum. At Arkham, it was Batman who interviewed the incarcerated maniacs. Batman asked them, one at a time, why they did what they did, and they both replied, “Evil is intuitive!” In a nearby cell, the incarcerated Doctor Octopus remarked to himself that villainy in NYC was becoming Satanic. Peter Parker wrote an editorial in the New York Herald titled, “Heroic Vigilante Duo Defies the Beastly Demogoblin and Two-Face.”
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