Daredevil Volume 1, Issue 12: “Sightless, in a Savage Land!”
The new Netflix series “Daredevil” is out, and it’s really good — much better than the sub-standard film released a few years ago. It captures the comic’s dark feeling beautifully.
And in honor of the excellent debut of this new series I’ll be posting images of the Silver Age Daredevil comics contained in the Lizard Collection, our very large collection of comics from the 60s. We have dozens of issues of Daredevil; he was always one of my favorite Marvel characters, because he was blind but he turned this disability into a huge advantage. It was a brilliant concept, and it totally captured my imagination when I was a wee lad.
Here’s the cover of issue #12, published in January 1966, featuring the Tarzan-like Ka-Zar and yes, that’s a pirate with a ray gun. Because why not? This issue was the first Marvel comic drawn by the great illustrator John Romita Sr.