The Daredevils #7

 

Another issue, another fine Alan Davis cover, and the disappearance of the Marvel Superheroes logo from the front - it lasted all of one issue. 

I wonder if they knew that there was pressure on them for sales by this point. There's an excellent Alan Davis poster featuring the cast of Captain Britain, Nightraven and Daredevil. It also has a lot of blurb on the posted explaining what it's all about, and a competition where if you can get your local newsagent to display the poster, they will replace it with a signed copy. It's a shame because it's really firing on all cylinders by this point. 

The Captain Britain strip, taking place at the trial of Saturnyne, again features multiple Captains from different universes fighting against the slightly rigged process. There's a prologue and epilogue though which features Linda McQuillan (another alternative Captain Britain I believe) having nightmares - in the prologue she sees the death of Miracleman (at this point, not in Marvel continuity) at the hands of the Fury, and at the end, a newspaper story about James Jaspers giving a speech about the rise of the costumed menace. It echoes storylines going on at the time in Marvel US, and obviously has echoes back to previous Captain Britain stories. Great work. 

One thing I noticed in this issues DD story is quite how well the Miller / Janson art translates to black and white. It makes sense - there's lots of moody shadows for characters to hide in, but it really stood out for me in this issue where Foggy gets wed and DD battles the Gladiator in a New York museum. Top stuff. 

There's another Moore / Lloyd strip from the back pages of Doctor Who Magazine. Three issues into this experiment, and I think its fair to say that they fit better in this title than the Spider-Man reprints ever did - they feel like they are part of the same universe rather than just being another superhero strip. I think it was a good decision to lose them, 

We've also got some more fanzine reviews, another Nighraven story, an article on Japanese comics which again features a title translated as "Baby Carriage and Wolf" (Lone Wolf & Cub) as well as a news article by Frank Plowright which almost exclusively discusses new releases from DC!

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