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Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil #10
Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil, Vol. 10
Steve Gerber debuts, Gene Colan's amazing run concludes and Marvel's gritty Man Without Fear reaches his centennial issue in the latest Daredevil Masterworks! Now operating out of San Francisco, Daredevil continues his partnership with the Black Widow as they confront villains as weird as Haight-Ashbury. The Dark Messiah and Angar the Screamer lead the charge, until Stilt-Man arrives to strut his way across the Golden Gate! There's also a crossover adventure with the Avengers and X-Men, a Spider-Man team-up, and a fight with Kraven the Hunter that turns decidedly cosmic!
DAREDEVIL (1964) 97-107; AVENGERS (1963) 111
DAREDEVIL (1964) 97-107; AVENGERS (1963) 111
264 pages, Hardcover
First published February 23, 2016
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About the author
Steve Gerber
642 books66 followersSteve Gerber graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in communications and took a job in advertising. To keep himself sane, he wrote bizarre short stories such as "Elves Against Hitler," "Conversion in a Terminal Subway," and "...And the Birds Hummed Dirges!" He noticed acquaintance Roy Thomas working at Marvel, and Thomas sent him Marvel's standard writing test, dialoguing Daredevil art. He was soon made a regular on Daredevil and Sub-Mariner, and the newly created Man-Thing, the latter of which pegged him as having a strong personal style--intellectual, introspective, and literary. In one issue, he introduced an anthropomorphic duck into a horror fantasy, because he wanted something weird and incongruous, and Thomas made the character, named for Gerber's childhood friend Howard, fall to his apparent death in the following issue. Fans were outraged, and the character was revived in a new and deeply personal series. Gerber said in interview that the joke of Howard the Duck is that "there is no joke." The series was existential and dealt with the necessities of life, such as finding employment to pay the rent. Such unusual fare for comicbooks also informed his writing on The Defenders. Other works included Morbius, the Lving Vampire, The Son of Satan, Tales of the Zombie, The Living Mummy, Marvel Two-in-One, Guardians of the Galaxy, Shanna the She-Devil, and Crazy Magazine for Marvel, and Mister Miracle, Metal Men,
The Phantom Zone
, and The Immortal Doctor Fate for DC. Gerber eventually lost a lawsuit for control of Howard the Duck when he was defending artist Gene Colan's claim of delayed paychecks for the series, which was less important to him personally because he had a staff job and Colan did not.
He left comics for animation in the early 1980s, working mainly with Ruby-Spears, creating Thundarr the Barbarian with Alex Toth and Jack Kirby and episodes of The Puppy's Further Adventures, and Marvel Productions, where he was story editor on multiple Marvel series including Dungeons & Dragons, G.I. Joe, and The Transformers. He continued to dabble in comics, mainly for Eclipse, including the graphic novel Stewart the Rat, the two-part horror story "Role Model: Caring, Sharing, and Helping Others," and the seven-issue Destroyer Duck with Jack Kirby, which began as a fundraiser for Gerber's lawsuit.
In the early 1990s, he returned to Marvel with Foolkiller, a ten-issue limited series featuring a new version of a villain he had used in The Man-Thing and Omega the Unknown, who communicated with a previous version of the character through internet bulletin boards. An early internet adopter himself, he wrote two chapters of BBSs for Dummies with Beth Woods Slick, with whom he also wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Contagion." During this period, he also wrote The Sensational She-Hulk and Cloak and Dagger for Marvel, Cybernary and WildC.A.T.s for Image, and Sludge and Exiles for the writer-driven Malibu Ultraverse, and Nevada for DC's mature readers Vertigo line.
In 2002, he returned to the Howard the Duck character for Marvel's mature readers MAX line, and for DC created Hard Time with Mary Skrenes, with whom he had co-created the cult hit Omega the Unknown for Marvel. Their ending for Omega the Unknown remains a secret that Skrenes plans to take to the grave if Marvel refuses to publish it. Suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ("idiopathic" meaning of unknown origin despite having been a heavy smoker much of his life), he was on a waiting list for a double lung transplant. His final work was the Doctor Fate story arc, "More Pain Comics," for DC Comics'
He left comics for animation in the early 1980s, working mainly with Ruby-Spears, creating Thundarr the Barbarian with Alex Toth and Jack Kirby and episodes of The Puppy's Further Adventures, and Marvel Productions, where he was story editor on multiple Marvel series including Dungeons & Dragons, G.I. Joe, and The Transformers. He continued to dabble in comics, mainly for Eclipse, including the graphic novel Stewart the Rat, the two-part horror story "Role Model: Caring, Sharing, and Helping Others," and the seven-issue Destroyer Duck with Jack Kirby, which began as a fundraiser for Gerber's lawsuit.
In the early 1990s, he returned to Marvel with Foolkiller, a ten-issue limited series featuring a new version of a villain he had used in The Man-Thing and Omega the Unknown, who communicated with a previous version of the character through internet bulletin boards. An early internet adopter himself, he wrote two chapters of BBSs for Dummies with Beth Woods Slick, with whom he also wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Contagion." During this period, he also wrote The Sensational She-Hulk and Cloak and Dagger for Marvel, Cybernary and WildC.A.T.s for Image, and Sludge and Exiles for the writer-driven Malibu Ultraverse, and Nevada for DC's mature readers Vertigo line.
In 2002, he returned to the Howard the Duck character for Marvel's mature readers MAX line, and for DC created Hard Time with Mary Skrenes, with whom he had co-created the cult hit Omega the Unknown for Marvel. Their ending for Omega the Unknown remains a secret that Skrenes plans to take to the grave if Marvel refuses to publish it. Suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ("idiopathic" meaning of unknown origin despite having been a heavy smoker much of his life), he was on a waiting list for a double lung transplant. His final work was the Doctor Fate story arc, "More Pain Comics," for DC Comics'
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November 26, 2020
This volume collects the year or so of issues where ‘Daredevil’ was retitled ‘Daredevil and the Black Widow’ and, I admit, I have a soft spot for this run despite it being... well, pretty awful really.
The plots are tripping over each other all the time; it’s like the writers were so keen to start their next story arc they couldn’t be bothered to finish the last one. DD also gets caught up in some space opera type nonsense that he’s absolutely the wrong character for. The book also suffers from multiple writer and artist changes along the way, that rob it of any sense of continuity.
Trivia time: This volume contains a fill-in issue that was legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont’s first published work. (It’s not great.)
The plots are tripping over each other all the time; it’s like the writers were so keen to start their next story arc they couldn’t be bothered to finish the last one. DD also gets caught up in some space opera type nonsense that he’s absolutely the wrong character for. The book also suffers from multiple writer and artist changes along the way, that rob it of any sense of continuity.
Trivia time: This volume contains a fill-in issue that was legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont’s first published work. (It’s not great.)
June 7, 2018
Daredevil never seemed to fit into the marvel universe with the rest of the heroes. He even got moved from NY (superhero central) to San Francisco for a while. Not sure why Marvel thought the west coast needed Daredevil but these are the stories of that time. As usual, Daredevil is a hard luck hero no matter what coast he is on. For a while he even got his series title changed to Daredevil and the Black Widow. This is a nice collection of stories and a good read. Recommended
August 16, 2022
Issues surrounding daredevil 100.
Good color artwork. The good old days, when comics were 20 cents. Matt is dating Natasha romanov and living in San Francisco. A large cast of villains and heros. Includes daredevil #100. Daredevil joins the avengers for a brief adventure.
Good color artwork. The good old days, when comics were 20 cents. Matt is dating Natasha romanov and living in San Francisco. A large cast of villains and heros. Includes daredevil #100. Daredevil joins the avengers for a brief adventure.
July 19, 2024
I found b these stories not right for Daredevil and Black Widow. I appreciate Steve Gerber's unique brain and how his stories are incredibly creative, but DD is just a more down to earth superhero.
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