The Daredevils 3

 It's taken me a while, but I'm back to Issue 3 of the Daredevils. Again, there's an excellent Moore / Davis Captain Britain at the start of the issue, featuring Brian Braddock's sister Betsy, and a load of her psychic colleagues being tracked and eliminated by a character from Captain Britain's past. 

Especially notable is that some of the action takes place in a shop off of Denmark Street. Anybody who was dipping their toes into the British Comics scene around that time will know that the shop is Forbidden Planet in its original location and I wonder if the two staffers that Davis illustrates in the story were based in people who actually worked there at the time. 

There's a continuation of the Daredevil / Bullseye story later n. Again this is excellent stuff, despite the 4 page interlude for Parker Brothers videogames in the middle of it, and it show Ben Urich getting more evidence of his suspicions about Matt Murdock. It remains a treat. 

There's another 60s Spidey at the back of the comic which still feels tonally a little out of place, and this time around, Alan Moore treats us to a full page review of a fanzine called 'Chain Reaction' which includes a couple of digs at DC, and notes the following point about the current crop of Marvel US Annuals. "The current rash of annuals mean little more than having to get twice as depressed as one does reading the regular monthly comic by reason of there being that many more pages of garbage to wade through."

He's summing up a piece n the fanzine itself, but he does say that he agrees with it - I guess it shows how much attention the American company was paying to its British arm. On the whole, it's another excellent issue.