The Daredevils #6


 

Our reading journey brings us now to issue 5 which as well as featuring a price increase from 50p to 60p, also includes a Marvel Super-Heroes logo on the cover as well as the Daredevils one. Were the two comics merged at this point? It's unclear and I can't find any mention of it inside. 


In a previous issue they had asked people whether they should continue with the Spider-Man strip? I guess the answers came in negative as its no longer featured - in its place is a slightly larger page count for Captain Britain, a Nightraven text piece, and a Special Executive script that was originally printed in Doctor Who Monthly (I believe) 

The latter is a good choice - the Special Executive pop cup in the main story as well this month, so the intro script, although it makes mention of Gallifreyans, is a good piece of background. The lead strip is excellent as usual - as I said with the previous issue, the quality of the art is visible month-on-month. This story has appearances of Captain Britain from various multiverses and is a pleasure to read. 

DD again is treading water a little - they are at least covering an issue at a time rather than doling the story out in the more traditional 5 page chunks that we could expect from Marvel UK, but knowing that the title isn't going to last for very long, I wish they would just get into the meat of the Miller run. 

There's also the second part off Moore's article about sexism in comics, some more fanzine reviews, and 2 pages of letters. I'm waiting to see some names that I recognise pop up in the letters page - maybe that will happen next month. 


(Actually I’ve just realised that this is issue 6 - which probably explains why there’s no mention of Arcade in the CB story and why there’s Spider-Man story has disappeared - whoops)

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