Yes, they are great!
And I think you should publish that 35 page dissent.
Someone may throw a couple of bucks your way.
😃
Miki A
On Jan 21, 2021, at 1:10 PM, Malvin <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm loving these write-ups, too bad I have no Colan page to contribute for
Gene in January.
Malvin
On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 07:48:59 AM PST, scrotorr via groups.io
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Gene in January, Day Twenty
Daredevil #124, page 3 by Gene Colan and Klaus Janson
https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1696155
Before the time of the plague, I was browsing tables at the NJ Comic Art
Convention. Amid the knot of sudoriferous misanthropes set up at the show
(not counting Will), I came upon a table with a gorgeous Colan/Palmer
Daredevil #91 page. Secondary to the aspirational pricing barrier, the page
was stickered as "DD/Black Widow break-up page." I nodded indulgently at such
perfidious mendacity, and held my peace. My scathing 35 page dissent is
available upon request.
There can be only one.
The Black Widow breaks up with Daredevil on this DD #124 page from the
twilight of Gene Colan's long and fruitful association with both characters.
Natasha Romanoff and Matt Murdock met in DD #81, paired up in DD #84, and
their partnership lasted for forty issues, from 1971 until 1975. The Black
Widow reappeared in the Daredevil comic over the coming decades, but never in
a co-starring role again.
If Stan and Jack's Fantastic Four run of 102 issues (plus six annuals) is the
Mt. Everest of history's greatest comics, and their Thor stretch is K2, then
Gene The Dean's nearly unbroken, 81-issue string of Daredevil comics from
#20-100 (Sept. 1966 - June 1973) deserves its own peak in the Himalayas, as
well. Colan returned to pencil a handful of issues between 1974 and 1979
(this is one of them), and a final eight-issue gift to the fans in 1997.
Gene had many years of fine work ahead of him in 1975 when he returned to
draw the Widow/DD split. It's not even his final instance drawing Natasha and
Matt, but this page does seem like an affectionate window on a lost time,
never to be repeated.
Oh yeah... underneath the art correction in panel four is another Daredevil
figure that looks pretty identical to me. Maybe writer/editor Len Wein asked
Klaus Janson to portray more melancholy in DD's glutes via an art correction.
Pax,
Sean
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