I was surprised when I first learned that Matt Murdock's superhero moniker had previously been used by a classic hero, but I guess I shouldn't have been - "Daredevil" sounds cool and is a perfect name for a superhero. I always thought that the original DD had a really cool costume and it is cool to see him in new adventures again after all these years now under the name The Death-Defying Devil.
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ReplyDeleteInteresting.
Is the "Classic" Daredevil from that Dynamite project that Alex Ross was involved with?
It definitley is! And I hope this means we will we be seeing more character's from Dynamite Entertainment? Ross?
ReplyDeleteYes, there will be more from Dynamite.
ReplyDeleteHe was Reddevil in AC Comics, and Double dare in First Comics.
ReplyDelete... and there's *one* comic in which the original Daredevil appears these days and kept his original monicker: Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon! Because there, he's just a secondary character, so why bother changing his name as long as it doesn't appear on the cover (it's a trademark thing)?
ReplyDeleteI think this is the first time you make a mash-up Marvel could actually be doing, since Daredevil is in the public domain. I'm actually surprised they never even tried, and we had AC, First, Dynamite and Larsen do it instead.
Interesting! A hero named Daredevil who was published by the same company that did Nightro who was a mutagenically blinded superhero aided by an eye doctor named...Frank Miller.
ReplyDeleteUmpteen points, again!
A bit of comics trivia. When Pete Morisi (PAM) created Thunderbolt for Charlton comics in the 60s, he was originally wanting to update the original Daredevil, but had trouble acquiring the rights to the character. So Thunderbolt is 'inspired' by Daredevil,and T-Bolt's split blue and red costume is an indicator of that.
ReplyDelete@mcsnafu: Thunderbolt (aka "Peter Cannon") was also partially inspired by Golden Age Centaur Comic's Amazing Man (aka "John Aman"). And both of them, in turn, inspired Marvel's present-day Iron Fist!
ReplyDeleteAmazing Man? Interesting. But the Charlton Thunderbolt wasn't especially big on martial arts. On the other hand, Charlton's Judomaster (by Frank Mclaughlin!) was most definitely into martial arts, pajamas and all. If Judomaster *didn't* inspire Iron Fist, he should have! ;-)
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