Sean Clarke :: Gene Colan

Daredevil #124, page 3

Artists: Gene Colan (Penciller) , Klaus Janson (Inker)

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Title:	Daredevil #124, page 3
Artist:	Gene Colan (Penciller)
Artist:	Klaus Janson (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	448
Likes on CAF:	6 7
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	1/21/2021
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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.

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J H
Member Since 2019

1 - Posted on 1/21/2021

I don't know if I like the page or your write-up more. The art is beautiful. The moment is poignant. And the melancholy glutes shed a single tear. I approve of it all. Big congrats!

steve staszower
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/21/2021

Great page, but the write-up is priceless.

Alex Johnson
Member Since 2006
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1 - Posted on 1/21/2021

Such a good page. I appreciate your write-ups. I wish everyone worked so hard at explaining why thre chose what they did.

F M
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/22/2021

A truly great quiet page like only Gene could do.

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 1/22/2021

Outstanding page and I enjoyed your reflections, as always!

Xavier .
Member Since 2010

1 - Posted on 2/4/2021

Fantastic page! Great write up!

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