Gene in January, Day FifteenDaredevil #90, page 3 by Gene Colan and Tom
Palmerhttps://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1694861
My friend Malvin (AKA The Hardest Working Man in the Original Art Hobby)
purchased one side of an X-Men double page spread (DPS) in 2011, and by 2014
had managed to locate the other half to complete the large image. I purchased
this right side of the Daredevil #90 DPS (page 3) in 2019, and my goal is to
cut Malvin's time in half by finding the missing page 2 this year. It could
happen!
I am not the first person to attempt this impracticable quest. In recent years
two other collectors have owned this page, and sensibly decided to sell it when
the missing left side didn't surface.
From a past owner:
"This old piece was a one-time deal that I got from a friend of mine that
picked it up from a guy that got it back in 1972. I was told this was the only
piece that the guy had. He was an art major in college and went to some comic
show back then and it was the only piece he picked up."
I welcome a challenge, and deny that this cursed monkey's paw could trigger
unintended consequences!
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore I
formally deputize you as an emissary in this hallowed quest. Be a part of
something bigger than you and I, something with epic scope and undeniable
mythic grandeur, by doing whatever you can to help me in this glorious
grail-quest. Someday, you can tell your grandchildren "I remember right where I
was when I sold/traded that Gene Colan Black Widow guy that art he kept going
on and on about." Together, we can make this happen... it's the only thing that
makes sense anymore, in these topsy-turvy times!
It is right it should be so;
I was made for Black Widow;
And when this I rightly know
Thro’ the World I'll safely go.
Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.
Finding Daredevil #90 page 2 would be all right.
Pax,Sean