Daredevil #26

Stilt-Man Strikes Again

Featuring: Daredevil
Release: January 10, 1967
Cover: March 1967
12 cents
Pulse-pounding presentation by: Smilin’ Stan Lee and Genial Gene Colan
Lots of little lettering by: Artie Simek
20 pages

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“Oh! Another superhero!”
“In this town, you can’t turn around without tripping over one of ’em!”

We come to story #666 in our Marvel reading. Daredevil seems an appropriate character for the occasion.

The title is Stilt-Man Strikes Again. We’ve already discussed at some length that I think “Hero fights ___ again” is one of the weakest possible premises for a comic. So hopefully there’s more going on here.

Unfortunately there is more going on, and it involves Mike Murdock.

When spelled correctly, Alec Guinness is an anagram for “genuine class”.

Last issue, to protect his secret identity, Matt invented an imaginary twin brother whom he could pretend to be, to convince Foggy and Karen that this guy, Mike, and not he, was Daredevil.

At some point it seems easier to just tell them the truth.

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Daredevil #8

The Stiltman Cometh!

Featuring: Daredevil
Release: April 1, 1965
Cover: June 1965
12 cents
Written with the inventive genius of Stan Lee
Drawn with the artistic brilliance of Wally Wood
Lettered with the scratch penpoint of S. Rosen
20 pages

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Wood repeats a cover trick from last issue, using a newspaper headline to provide the text for the cover.

We open with some action. An out-of-control driverless car is careening toward a woman. Fortunately, Daredevil is on hand to save the day.

He needs the woman to keep screaming in order to locate her. Not clear why his radar sense isn’t sufficient.

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