The Spider-Man tales are Frank Miller's first experience with Daredevil, helping a blind Spider-Man take on the Masked Marauder. People forget that The Kingpin was a Spider-Man villain for a decade before he entered Daredevil's life. And probably the most impactful, the Kingpin and Daredevil lock horns for the first time. Bullseye firmly establishes himself as Daredevil's arch-nemesis. Quite a bit of what would later wind up on the Netflix show is introduced or refined here. In this volume, even before Frank Miller takes the writing reins as well as the art, begins the shift toward something more. Mixing traditional super-heroics with mysterious martial artistry, doomed romance, and dark personal drama, Miller's character-defining DD run is collected across three titanic trade paperbacks! Collecting Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #27-28, and Daredevil #158-161 and #163-172.ĭaredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson volume 1 contains Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #27-#28, and Daredevil #158-#161 and #163-#172.įor a lot of his life before this volume, Daredevil was strictly a b-lister, a poor man's Spider-Man. Miller also introduced Daredevil's mysterious mentor Stick, deadly ninja foes the Hand, and Matt's long-lost love Elektra, a beautiful assassin who would become one of Marvel's most memorable characters. Miller put his own stamp on established cast members such as reporter Ben Urich, femme fatale Black Widow, mad assassin Bullseye, the saw-fisted Gladiator, and monstrous crime boss Kingpin. A classic Marvel hero defined by one of comics' greatest visionaries! A Marvel Comics mainstay since 1964, Daredevil got a new lease on life in a landmark 1979-1983 run by writer-penciler Frank Miller and inker-penciler Klaus Janson, whose daring reinvention of the character quickly made Miller one of the biggest and most influential stars in the comic-book industry.

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