Her voice is like music! She's five-feet-four, young, and I know she's lovely

Daredevil #1 (1964)

Chosen by me from my shelf (essential volume so in black and white) 

as part of my Daredevil theme week.

Look how busy this cover is. Spidey and the FF are 100% not in this issue.

Daredevil is frequently one of my favourite superheroes. 

A boy blinded because of his selfless heroism, a man who works the law from in the courts and on the streets as a vigilante. It's a potent combination that isnt particularly taken advantage of in the first issue. Indeed his lack of sight is instantly ignored by 'plot powers' (later writers would approach this with more tact) and his legal profession barely features at all (he's quite happy Foggy has turned down a client that he had earlier beat up and tricked into given a confession).

Bill Everett's art is muscular and interesting, his villains the Fixer and Slade looking more like Dick Tracy characters than something from 1960s New York.

It's obviously a product of it's time, with Stan Lee's usual purpleness shining through and the odd bit of Marvel Style writing meaning major moments like Matt's accident not quite having the impact it should (we are told by a character looking at the scene that a canister has fallen off the truck and hit Matt but there is no canister to be seen and the truck itself is in barely more than two panels).

It's fun stuff for the most part but doesnt quite get how good a character it has on it's hands and pretty much treats him as a second rate spider-man. Something that wouldn't really change for many years (cue suspense music leading into my next review...tomorrow).