Category: Daredevil (1964)
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Daredevil #7:In Mortal Combat. With… Sub-Mariner!
Cover Date: Apr 1965 | Review: 4.25 StarsThis issue is as much about Sub-Mariner and his development as it is about our hero Daredevil—or perhaps even more so about Sub-Mariner. While Namor fails to conquer the surface world, he often conquers the stories he appears in, and this issue is no exception. Here, Namor is urged by his warlord, Krang, to make…
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Daredevil #6:Trapped By…The Fellowship of Fear!
Cover Date: Feb 1965 | Review: 3.75 Starshis story follows a familiar but engaging pattern. It starts with Daredevil out on patrol, using his incredible hearing and sharp intellect to realize that a “movie” being filmed nearby seems suspicious. This discovery leads him into action. Unfortunately, he quickly finds himself outmatched by the newly formed Fellowship of Fear, led by the recently…
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Daredevil #5:The Mysterious Masked Matador!
Cover Date: Dec 1964 | Review: 2 StarsThis issue starts with Daredevil looking for the Matador, who is “the greatest threat to Law in order in years.” While the astute reader may find the thought of our hero questionable, it works to build up the tension to the pending conflict. They first meet in the streets, where Daredevil tries to intervene and…
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Daredevil #4:Killgrave, The unbelievable purple man!
Cover Date: Oct 1964 | Review: 4 StarsIn sitting down to write my comic book review of Daredevil #4 and the story titled “Killgrave, The unbelievable purple man!” I find myself thinking, that this tale may be one of the better mind control stories I have seen so far. While the starting crime of him robbing the bank, seems a bit…
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Daredevil #3:Daredevel Battles The Owl, Ominous Overlord Of Crime!
Cover Date: Aug 1964 | Review: 3.5 StarsWith the 3rd issue of Daredevil gets his first – own – super villain, the Owl. The Owl is a man of great wealth and power but seeks more as the law uncovers his illegal activities he goes fully underground and develops a plan to lead him to running the underworld. Can daredevil put a stop to it? or will he…
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Daredevil #2:The Evil Menace Of Electro!
Cover Date: Jun 1964 | Review: 3.5 StarsThe Thing, and the Fantastic Four appearing in the second issue of Daredevil? not an all surprising fact, as they also sent Spider-Man off to a good start in his first issue. but is their appearance in this issue more of the same as it was then, or is it creative? Also talking about spider-man, in this issue…
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Daredevil #1:The Origin Of Daredevil
Cover Date: Apr 1964 | Review: 4.5 StarsThis comic book review is of Daredevil #1, who’s cover uses the fantastic Four, and Spider-Man to say how great this comic book will be. But does this classic first issue and Origin story meet my expectation’s. ones that Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four both helped to set, or was marvel blinded by their ego’s with the…