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Post by james on Dec 23, 2020 21:42:06 GMT -5
My favorite DD cover but im unsure the transition part.
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 23, 2020 21:44:36 GMT -5
My favorite DD cover but im unsure the transition part. If I recall correctly, this is Frank Miller's first issue of Daredevil.
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Post by james on Dec 23, 2020 21:45:37 GMT -5
My favorite DD cover but im unsure the transition part. If I recall correctly, this is Frank Miller's first issue of Daredevil. Yes it is. i get the transition now.
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Post by berkley on Dec 23, 2020 21:57:33 GMT -5
If I recall correctly, this is Frank Miller's first issue of Daredevil. Yes it is. i get the transition now. You might argue that the real transition came when Miller started writing as well as drawing the series.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 23, 2020 22:17:46 GMT -5
In with an iconic cover... Giant Sized X-Men #1
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 23, 2020 23:38:15 GMT -5
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 24, 2020 2:32:17 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 24, 2020 12:20:00 GMT -5
I have to wonder if Colan didn't produce a gag version of that cover, with the same copy. A straight line like that is begging for some naughty satire!
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Post by Crimebuster on Dec 24, 2020 14:04:36 GMT -5
I never noticed before that this cover is an homage to Sensation Comics #1.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 24, 2020 14:28:02 GMT -5
Not a direct swipe, but certainly a very similar theme.
Nice catch Crimebuster !
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Post by berkley on Dec 24, 2020 15:11:03 GMT -5
I have to wonder if Colan didn't produce a gag version of that cover, with the same copy. A straight line like that is begging for some naughty satire! Colan, probably not, but someone else should have!
Aside frm the 'busting loose' thing, I think Colan had lost his enthusiasm for superheroes by this stage of his career and actually would have drawn a better WW in the 60s, around the time when he was doing Daredevil - and even within that run, the earlier period, roughly DD #20-50.
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Post by brianf on Dec 24, 2020 16:11:33 GMT -5
Yes it is. i get the transition now. You might argue that the real transition came when Miller started writing as well as drawing the series. As someone who was really bored by DD until Miller came along I do see #158 as a big change. I picked up #160 off the shelves after a friend told me the series improved, and the Hulk in #163 & Doc Ock fight in #165 were very impressive to me as a kid, and still read as powerful to me today. Obviously Miller continued to elevate once he took over full writing duties, but I became a regular reader soon after Miller came on board because of Miller.
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Post by chadwilliam on Dec 24, 2020 19:48:16 GMT -5
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Post by foxley on Dec 24, 2020 19:52:09 GMT -5
The Defenders #122Even though the title of the book would not change until #125, this issue makes the transition from the old Defenders to the new Defenders.
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Post by berkley on Dec 25, 2020 2:47:30 GMT -5
You might argue that the real transition came when Miller started writing as well as drawing the series. As someone who was really bored by DD until Miller came along I do see #158 as a big change. I picked up #160 off the shelves after a friend told me the series improved, and the Hulk in #163 & Doc Ock fight in #165 were very impressive to me as a kid, and still read as powerful to me today. Obviously Miller continued to elevate once he took over full writing duties, but I became a regular reader soon after Miller came on board because of Miller. Yes, I just threw that out there as a possible topic of discussion (though of course this isn't the right thread for that kind of thing). I actually prefer Miller's artwork in these early issues of his run as artist to what came later on when he was drawing and writing - and in some ways I even prefer the stories as a whole, in that they were a marriage of Miller's art with the more traditional characterisation of Daredevil that I still prefer. The Miller-written DD was great for what it was and his run as writer/artist contains many highlights, but it never really felt like Daredevil to me, just a well-written crime series featuring a different character using the same name and costume.
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