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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

1560 - Spotlight on Daredevil in the 1980s and 1990s

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

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Comic Book, Comic Books, Superhero, Arts, Comic, Comicbook, Graphic Novel, Comics, Comicbooks, Arts & Entertainment

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2015

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

With the Frank Miller years behind us, we Geeks continue our underworld journey through Daredevil's history with a visit to the purgatory period of the late 1980s and the 1990s. We give due recognition to prodigious scripting runs by Denny O'Neil, Ann Nocenti, D.G. Chichester, Karl Kesel, and Kevin Smith (with just a few more stories by Miller sprinkled in to sweeten the deal); Daredevil's first encounters with Mephisto, Blackheart, and Typhoid Mary; the return of Elektra, and the deaths of several more of DD's love interests; the infamous red-and-gray armored costume; and every grim vicissitude in between, from issue #192 of Daredevil Volume 1 to the first arc of the Marvel Knights series. A lot of it ain't pretty, but in the life of the Man Without Fear, what is? (2:37:01)

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geekspeak, episode 1560, spotlight on Daredevil in the 1980s and 1990s. You got it on Wednesday, and it was like about it going to the ball you love. These guys will talk about it every week the geeks love from takes a laser bead. A pain like the seas is on everything you read. We're reading.

0:23.0

Comics, movie, games, toys, artists, come. Come on, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, keep speak. Come on, come, come, come, come, keep. Come, come, come, keep. United in the world's Mightyest Heroes, this is...

0:38.3

I'm Brian Christman.

0:40.2

I'm Shane Kelly.

0:41.0

I'm Adam Murdo.

0:42.0

And I'm Chris Everley.

0:45.3

And welcome to the show.

0:49.3

Yes, time for another daredevil spotlight, sir.

0:51.9

We've sort of been continuing these periodically over the last year.

0:56.8

More than that now, actually. True. Well, yeah, I think I think...

0:59.5

The first one was in March of last year.

1:01.3

2014, that's correct. That's right. Which was his 50th anniversary of publication.

1:05.3

Indeed, brother.

1:05.7

We've covered the Silver Age, the Bronze Age, and then I give... We called it the Miller Age, basically. Did it call it the Miller era? Yeah. Oh, so it's only one with two? It's in three. Silver, bronze, Miller. Well, yeah, that's what I was getting at. Silver, bronze, and Miller. Yep. And this is going to be the 80s and 90s, sort of a mishmash of a lot.

1:28.7

An alloy of copper and chromium, you might say.

1:30.9

Well, just to, so our listeners understand where we're going at this.

1:34.3

This time period is when Daredevil Born Again, the legendary story by Frank Miller and David Mazekle,

1:39.9

which I'm sure eventually Netflix will probably get to is my guess down the road.

1:43.7

I would think. Was produced. We're not going to talk about that in any kind of depth because we're going to do a special episode on that down the road where we can footnote the whole story. Because for me personally, not only is that my favorite daredevil story of all time, it is my favorite comic story of all time, period. Wow, I did not know. Very good. So I'm very much looking forward to that. Even above Black Panther stuff. When it comes to one self-contained arc, that's my Bible. Wow. Essentially. And then later on the summer, we're going to do Daredovo in the 2000s. We'll talk about the wonderful Bendis Brubaker Mark Wade era and also discuss the forlorn Ben Affleck film

2:19.2

and, of course, the current and magnificent Netflix series

2:22.6

in greater detail.

2:24.0

So that's the plan, ladies and gentlemen.

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