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Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil #11
Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil, Vol. 11
Daredevil teams up with not just one, but two stunning women of Marvel when the Black Widow and Shanna the She-Devil join the battle against the Black Spectre. Together, they must uncover the secret leaders of an organization bent on bringing the United States to its knees. It's a massive saga that will pull in heroes from across the Marvel Universe including Moondragon and the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing, culminating in a battle on the White House lawn! Classic villains like the Gladiator and the Owl abound, and new enemies emerge when Death-Stalker hatches a plan that brings the Man-Thing into the fray. Add in a return to Fogwell's Gym, where it all began, and what we have in store and true Marvel Masterworks!
DAREDEVIL (1964) 108-119, MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE (1974) 3
DAREDEVIL (1964) 108-119, MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE (1974) 3
249 pages, Hardcover
Published March 21, 2017
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About the author
Steve Gerber
639 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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March 10, 2021
More ‘70s Daredevil and it’s... OK, I guess. The artist switch-outs are jarring as Bob Brown and Gene Colan keep tagging each other in and out.
The stories from Steve Gerber (with a little help from Gerry Conway and Chris Claremont) are standard ‘70s Marvel fare. Gerber can’t seem to make up his mind if he wants the Black Widow in the book or not and the multiple guest appearances by Shanna the She-Devil are just weird.
The most significant thing in this book is probably the role DD plays in Man-Thing’s origin... which is also a bit weird, explicable only by the fact that Gerber was writing both books.
Gerber also introduces a previously-unheard-of sister of Foggy Nelson who hangs around being a semi-love interest to Matt for a year and then disappears again (until another short-lived appearance in the mid-‘90s). Again, weird.
My next book: Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda vol. 2
The stories from Steve Gerber (with a little help from Gerry Conway and Chris Claremont) are standard ‘70s Marvel fare. Gerber can’t seem to make up his mind if he wants the Black Widow in the book or not and the multiple guest appearances by Shanna the She-Devil are just weird.
The most significant thing in this book is probably the role DD plays in Man-Thing’s origin... which is also a bit weird, explicable only by the fact that Gerber was writing both books.
Gerber also introduces a previously-unheard-of sister of Foggy Nelson who hangs around being a semi-love interest to Matt for a year and then disappears again (until another short-lived appearance in the mid-‘90s). Again, weird.
My next book: Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda vol. 2
June 20, 2018
Nice collection of these older Daredevil stories. While not one of my favorite heroes of the Marvel universe the art and writing were by some of the industries then top talent. Good reads. Recommended
January 3, 2022
Daredevil comics from the early - mid 70's, right in my wheel house. i remember owning about half these books, i rarely caught consecutive DD issues. Love the simple, acrobatic, street fighting style of DD. Love is billy club. Love how they show his radar sense at times. This is about the time i started collecting comics and DD. Love the Black Widow being a love interest of Matt. Already ordered the next vol. 12 to read !!
September 3, 2024
Great stories. Steve Gerber's take on DD was different and more socially aware. His plot lines were odd, as all of Gerber's were, but at the same time refreshing and not spo "Stan Lee-ish."His created characters added enrightment to Marvel.
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