The Daredevils #11

 And so we come to the final issue of The Daredevils. Behind a cover of the Fury clobbering Captain Britain, there's an editorial from Bernie Jaye, revealing both that the title is going to merge with the (recently relaunched) Mighty World of Marvel, and that she is going to be moving on as well. I haven't read any issues of the latter title, but it's clear that a lot of credit for the approach of the Daredevils has to go to the editorial team and the lead they provided to the creatives - it's notable that there's a short Moore / Davis strip wishing her well. 

The Captain Britain strip rounds off the story. It's a bit rushed but Alan Moore and Alan Davis perform an effective job of corralling all of our main players together to see of the Fury, with one particularly striking double page sequence by Davis featuring a sequence of full height wordless panels, ending with the Fury buried under tons of rock. The Special Executive take their leave and the story promises to continue in the pages of MWOM, with the same creative team for the time being. 

Daredevil unfortunately is destined to get lost in the merger - in this issue, Bullseye is back to fighting health, and the Kingpin is returning to Manhattan. It's a reprint of the story from issue 170 of the US comic, and its a shame that the reprints are cut short here, just where all the main characters are finally coming into place and the story is amping up for the next year or so. It's one of the great runs in US Marvel comics and I'm gonna go read it elsewhere now. 

There's a Nightraven story as well, and a collection of fanzine reviews too. 

With 40 years of distance, I'm sad that I missed Daredevils at the time and I've enjoyed this re-read of it a great deal. It feels like it was a valiant effort to present the UK material in an integral way, and, although I know they had a few more tries over the coming years, it's felt really refreshing to read and the match of the new Captain Britain strips and the excellent Daredevil work from Miller / Janson really made it stand out.