Joe Kelly's hilarious, character-defining run on Deadpool begins here Wade Wilson is a mercenary with a mouth, willing to work for whoever pays the bills, but the mysterious Landau, Luckman & Lake Corporation believes he can be a hero Though Blind Al, Deadpool's elderly roommate-slash-prisoner, might not agree... Wade takes on the Taskmaster, but when his healing factor fails, the only thing that will juice it up is the incredible Hulk's blood As Wade's old rival T-Ray nurses a dangerous grudge, Deadpool falls in with Typhoid Mary -bringing him into conflict with Daredevil And can Deadpool and Blind Al escape the past when they're hurled backward into the pages of a Silver Age Spider-Man story?

COLLECTING: DEADPOOL (1997) 1-11, -1; DAREDEVIL/DEADPOOL ANNUAL '97; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) 47