So many great runs, so many good issues, it's hard to select a single favourite one. 

The swashbuckling and wise-cracking days were fun. The Miller era was thrilling. The Nocenti working-class hero run was unexpected and smart. 

I'd also like to mention a story line that will probably not be mentioned otherwise. It's set during the Bendis-Maleev days and features a support group for people whose lives have been affected by Daredevil. Everyone has their turn telling their own story, Canterbury-style. Each character has a very distinct face, and as we go from story to story we get familiar with them all. Then a dude explains that Matt Murdock is a ninja, and that he could be in this very room without anyone noticing. This causes Matt to reveal himself, as sure enough he was there from the very beginning. What makes this amazing is that he was there from the beginning! I mean, he was right there on the page!!! We readers had never noticed, because he'd be partly hidden by a word balloon or too close to the camera, but he was there!

I thought that was a brilliant use of the comic-book medium. It would have been hard to pull that kind of storytelling stunt on film or in a prose book.

To me Daredevil #353-364 by Karl Kesel and Cary Nord are what caught my attention. I am otherwise pretty indifferent to DD. Don't dislike him or like him. In the hands of a good writer/artist he can catch my attention. But I have never been a stalwart fan.

As to the Miller question I cannot really answer. The only DD I have read pre-Miller were random issues that I bought for the character appearances in them not for DD himself. I think the Miller part is good. I think it was a good story. I can't say if he "saved" DD though.

 Pure coincidence, that 60 years after his introduction I am rereading Miller/ Romita Jr's  Daredevil The Man WithOut Fear Miniseries.

Favorite cover 158.  




1. Man-Wolf   just picked up Creatures on the  Loose 30-36

2.Ulik 

3. Big Barda

4. Monsieur Mallah and the Brain

I’ve lost track of modern DD because of Marvel’s “I want to eat my cake and then have it too” approach of renumbering every time a new arc starts. I guess writer ego is the priority, rather than practicality. I mean, I believe the last issue I read ended in 2020 (possibly), but when I searched for “Daredevil 1 in 2021” or similar terms, I couldn’t pinpoint the next arc.

It’s pathetic.

As a kid, I read The Incredible Hulk #349 (Hulk vs. Spidey). I drifted away. Years later, I remembered that the last Hulk comic I had read was #349, so when it came to back issue bins/eBay hunts, I knew #350 was the one I had to find - which I did. So easy.

But I ain’t doing “homework”. God bless LCS owners who have to sort out back issue bins in any semblance of chronological order. I know some titles use legacy numbers, too (which is why I refer to their “I want to eat my cake and then have it too” approach). But I give up. Be counter-intuitive. Deprive yourself of money. Yours truly could be ordering copies of whatever Daredevil #1 came next in my reading (Kingpin was still Mayor of NYC in the issue I read), but I can’t be bothered. Lazy? I’m not a lazy person in any way. But it’s impossible to jump on board with this ‘new number 1 approach’.

Funnily enough, I also know the number of the last issue of The Walking Dead I read (#180, new World Order arc). When I can afford to resume that book, I’ll either buy #181 or the Vol. 31 trade. Some publishers make it so easy.

Don’t even get me started on the LCS employee who once told me he’d accidentally ordered the wrong Aquaman volume for someone (Rebirth era rather than New 52, due to numbering issues).

So, I am a bit disappointed. Who wants to do “homework” or risk ordering the wrong thing? If I knew the next issue was, say, #720 or something, that’d be so easier to search for and find. I did like the modern stuff a lot.

Roger Mckenzie and John Byrne or Mike Zeck?

My first encounter with Daredevil, a great Daredevil moment, remains indelibly etched into my memory.






Even though he destroys Attuma's hordes in one swell foop  he is unfortunately relegated to the bottom of the page beneath five goobers (Look at the Beetle, just standing there; his special power must be super-gloating) trying to defeat ten-year-old Bobby Drake, clad only in boxers and boots.

Oh, and even though he looks like a a mass murderer atop the next page, worry not; it was only a Vortex Bomb. All it does is suck hordes back to the depths of the ocean. 

That's an excellent storyline. The Bendis/Maleev run as a whole represents a huge chunk of the Daredevil mythos to me. The Brubaker/Lark run is a decent follow-up, but nowhere near as innovative.