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Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil, Volume 3 collects Daredevil #22-32 and annual 1 by Stan Lee and Gene Colan.
Hey there, True Believer! I'm not going to put a lot of time into this review because I feel like I've already wasted enough time on this. Gene Colan's art is fantastic but Stan Lee didn't give him much to work with.
People like to tout Stan Lee as some kind of creative genius but this book is a pretty good example of the hacky crap Lee came up with when he didn't have Steve Ditko or Jack Kirby driving the car for him. Matt Murdock invents a previously unknown brother in an elaborate lie to Karen Page and Foggy. Matt puts on a Daredevil costume and plays blind Matt pretending to be Daredevil. Matt puts on a Daredevil costume pretending to be Matt being Daredevil. Daredevil dresses up as Thor to lure Mr. Hyde and Cobra out of the shadows while wearing Thor's costume over his own. I reallize comics were written for a younger audience in the 1960s but there is some eye-rolling shit in this.
Up until Frank Miller took over in the 1980s, Daredevil was perceived as a second rate Spider-Man by a lot of readers. I expect stories like the ones in this volume lead him down that road. We're lucky Daredevil wasn't cancelled by 1970. Gene Colan's art is the only think keeping me from one starring this.
Hey there, True Believer! I'm not going to put a lot of time into this review because I feel like I've already wasted enough time on this. Gene Colan's art is fantastic but Stan Lee didn't give him much to work with.
People like to tout Stan Lee as some kind of creative genius but this book is a pretty good example of the hacky crap Lee came up with when he didn't have Steve Ditko or Jack Kirby driving the car for him. Matt Murdock invents a previously unknown brother in an elaborate lie to Karen Page and Foggy. Matt puts on a Daredevil costume and plays blind Matt pretending to be Daredevil. Matt puts on a Daredevil costume pretending to be Matt being Daredevil. Daredevil dresses up as Thor to lure Mr. Hyde and Cobra out of the shadows while wearing Thor's costume over his own. I reallize comics were written for a younger audience in the 1960s but there is some eye-rolling shit in this.
Up until Frank Miller took over in the 1980s, Daredevil was perceived as a second rate Spider-Man by a lot of readers. I expect stories like the ones in this volume lead him down that road. We're lucky Daredevil wasn't cancelled by 1970. Gene Colan's art is the only think keeping me from one starring this.
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