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Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil #4
Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil, Vol. 4
Collects Daredevil #33-41, The Fantastic Four #73
209 pages, Hardcover
First published February 21, 2007
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Stan Lee
7,565 books2,336 followersStan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
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November 21, 2018
More and more 60s silly cheesy stories, but the
And after 50 years "deacon" Gene Colan is still Daredevil's ultimate artist for me.
'Nuff said!
July 7, 2016
Daredevil combats the Beetle, Trapster, Doctor Doom, and the Unholy Three along with the Exterminator.
The Beetle and Trapster are pretty standard C-list villains, but things get a bit more interesting when Doctor Doom switches bodies with DD and causes a free-for-all with the Fantastic Four and Thor. The Exterminator's time displacement ray makes almost no sense, and it seems like Stan Lee wrote himself into a corner when he killed off Matt's fake brother Mike. I didn't like the concept of Mike Murdock, an extroverted jerk who Matt pretended to be around Karen and Foggy so that he could tell them he was Daredevil while retaining the secret of his Matt identity. The concept turned out to be even more unbelievable and distracting than Clark Kent's glasses, so I'm glad it's going away. Though, I'd love to see it get worked into the Netflix show somehow.
The Beetle and Trapster are pretty standard C-list villains, but things get a bit more interesting when Doctor Doom switches bodies with DD and causes a free-for-all with the Fantastic Four and Thor. The Exterminator's time displacement ray makes almost no sense, and it seems like Stan Lee wrote himself into a corner when he killed off Matt's fake brother Mike. I didn't like the concept of Mike Murdock, an extroverted jerk who Matt pretended to be around Karen and Foggy so that he could tell them he was Daredevil while retaining the secret of his Matt identity. The concept turned out to be even more unbelievable and distracting than Clark Kent's glasses, so I'm glad it's going away. Though, I'd love to see it get worked into the Netflix show somehow.
October 21, 2015
Really excellent hooking of the stories together, but they are really silly and derivative of things that happened when the book was in its second year, including a body swap, this time between Daredevil and Doctor Doom. The artwork is great, and it is a page turner. The death of "Mike Murdock" seems handled too simplistically. I guess we have to wait until the next volume to see if Foggy and Karen are really that stupid.
August 18, 2024
Gene Colan was a master at drawing acrobatic action heroes in dynamic poses. He was the ideal artist for Daredevil, and reveled at depicting him in motion. He particularly excelled at full-page panels within a story. Volume 4 of the Daredevil Marvel Masterworks series provides some great examples of these. We get full-page spreads of Daredevil falling over a waterfall; Daredevil leaping in the air to give the Beetle and one of his minions a double-kick; Daredevil battling the Trapster over a New York cityscape; and Daredevil, swinging on his Billy-club line, in a three-pronged attack on Cat-Man, Bird-Man, and Ape-Man.
And this volume gives us more than a lot of exciting pin-up pictures. The stories collected here are some of the best that Stan Lee wrote for the series, with the centerpiece being a sequence with Daredevil confronting Doctor Doom. This story arc actually begins with the Trapster stories, and is concluded in an issue of Fantastic Four--which is helpfully included in this volume. The FF story is basically a Battle Royale, with the FF battling Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Thor. Not much of a story in this issue, really, but plenty of action illustrated by regular FF artist Jack Kirby at the height of his powers.
Altogether an excellent collection--and I didn't even mention our heroes taking a short vacation to Expo '67 in Montreal, a love interest for Foggy Nelson with the return of Debbie Harris, and the convoluted Matt Murdock, Karen Page, Mike Murdock "triangle"--complicated by the fact that Mike is actually Matt posing as his non-existent twin brother.
And this volume gives us more than a lot of exciting pin-up pictures. The stories collected here are some of the best that Stan Lee wrote for the series, with the centerpiece being a sequence with Daredevil confronting Doctor Doom. This story arc actually begins with the Trapster stories, and is concluded in an issue of Fantastic Four--which is helpfully included in this volume. The FF story is basically a Battle Royale, with the FF battling Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Thor. Not much of a story in this issue, really, but plenty of action illustrated by regular FF artist Jack Kirby at the height of his powers.
Altogether an excellent collection--and I didn't even mention our heroes taking a short vacation to Expo '67 in Montreal, a love interest for Foggy Nelson with the return of Debbie Harris, and the convoluted Matt Murdock, Karen Page, Mike Murdock "triangle"--complicated by the fact that Mike is actually Matt posing as his non-existent twin brother.
January 9, 2024
I truly am a Daredevil fan. Stan Lee and Colan make a great team. Colan's art is perfection. He is one of my favorite artists. The stories are nuanced and cool. Daredevil fights all sorts of baddies -- including Dr. Doom, who is way out of his league really, but Matt Murdock is no dumbing. Yes, he gets beat up a bit in these stories, but like all bad guys--no one takes off his mask -- go figure.
The story where Sue Storm gets pasted by the Trapster is badly written by Lee. Sue could have put her invisible forcefield around the bomb, but she just laid there like a helpless woman. Lee writes TERRIBLE women because he is so old fashioned that they have nothing to do but basically, buy clothes and get their hair done.
His men are generally written well, but his damsel-in-distress for even the female heroes is just annoying as hell.
Even in this collection Foggy's "Girlfriend" Deborah, although a villain, is just helpless and useless through the stories. I guess it took other writers to finally give female superheroes their due--definitely not Lee.
The story where Sue Storm gets pasted by the Trapster is badly written by Lee. Sue could have put her invisible forcefield around the bomb, but she just laid there like a helpless woman. Lee writes TERRIBLE women because he is so old fashioned that they have nothing to do but basically, buy clothes and get their hair done.
His men are generally written well, but his damsel-in-distress for even the female heroes is just annoying as hell.
Even in this collection Foggy's "Girlfriend" Deborah, although a villain, is just helpless and useless through the stories. I guess it took other writers to finally give female superheroes their due--definitely not Lee.
July 15, 2017
This was actually a lot of fun, between the Gene Colan art and Lee's increasingly wild and breezy scripting. We get the ludicrous Mike Murdock arc wrapped up and ol' hornhead fights Doctor Doom and the Fantastic Four. We're still a long way from the gloomy, tormented DD of the 1970s onward.
May 8, 2019
The great age of Gene Colan drawing DD. Cinematic.
August 3, 2019
Dr Doom is always value for money.
Everything else not so much.
Everything else not so much.
April 19, 2024
3.5/5
May 9, 2024
Gene Colan makes the lackluster, juvenile stories magical, somehow, work.
December 4, 2015
"How can any sighted person ever believe that a man in a world of darkness can be far more capable than he!!??"
Fueron los issues que menos me gustaron hasta ahora y no solo por la puntuación que le puse, sino porque en calidad me parecieron más bajos que los anteriores. En general están bien, siguen la misma línea que los anteriores, pero pasaron desapercibidos en mi lectura y lo que más tengo que rescatarle es que los leí más rápido que a otros. Las apariciones de Spider-Man y The Fantastic Four (y Thor en FF#73) quedaron muy en la nada, fueron así nomás en mi opinión.
Lo que más me gustó fue el final del #41, porque .
Issue #33: 3.5/5
Issue #34: 3/5
Issue #35: 3.5/5
Issue #36: 4/5
Issue #37: 3.5/5
Issue #38: 3/5
Fantastic Four #73: 3/5
Issue #39: 3.5/5
Issue #40: 3/5
Issue #41: 3/5
"A man doesn't have to be a super hero, to stand on his own two feet"
March 11, 2016
Excellent reprint book of the silver age Daredevil stories. Great way for a reader to experience these very expensive and hard to get early issues. Very recommended.
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