The Trap is Sprung
Featuring: Daredevil
Release: August 2, 1966
Cover: October 1966
12 cents
Spellbinding script: Stan Lee
Phenominal pencilling; Gene Colan
Dynamic delineation: Fearless Frank * Darlin’ Dick * Wild Bill
Laudatory lettering: Artie Simek
Bombastic bird-watching: Irving Forbush
20 pages
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“Daredevil!! B-but how–??”
“Would you believe– blind luck??”
The credited inkers are Frank, Dick, and Bill. I presume that means… Frank Giacoia, Dick Ayers, and Bill Everett.
Is Colan the regular artist now? It suggested last issue was a fill-in. But he’s now drawn 2 issues in a row and is set to draw the next 80 or so.
On a personal note, this is the earliest issue of Daredevil that I own.
We pick up where we left off with Daredevil a prisoner of the Owl in his castle on an island.
I think of the Owl as DD’s first proper super-villain. The Fixer is not really a super-villain, and Electro was a borrowed villain.
Daredevil escapes, but then the island turns out to be a volcano that erupts, and the castle crumbles and it all gets rather exciting. And involves a mechanical owl.
Get it? “Blind luck”.
The ending is odd. That’s Colan not quite pacing out the issue right. Stan isn’t helping him. So it kind of feels like they ran out of pages.
Here’s the letters pages.
It’s weird that I think this fairly simple issue is somehow tangled up in the continuity of the AIM and Secret Empire sagas to the point where it needed to be read right now, but I do.
Rating: ★★½, 48/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
Characters:
- Daredevil
- Owl
- Judge Lewis
Story notes:
- Daredevil a prisoner of Owl on his island.
- Mechanical Owl in forbidden chamber.
- Owl can glide to mainland, while DD rides malfunctioning robot.
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