
Daredevil
Art By David Mazzuchelli & Danny Bulandi
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Daredevil
"The Deadliest Night of My Life"
Issue 208, July 1984, Marvel Comics
story, Harlan Ellison & Arthur Byron Cover
pencils, David Mazzuchelli; inks, Danny Bulandi;
cover, David
Mazzuchelli & Danny Bulandi
"The Deadliest Night Of My Life," which just happened to come out
the month I began to collect comic books, tells the story of Daredevils
traveling through an abandoned house which is an ever more increasingly
difficult collection of death traps. The story is followed up in the
following issue, Daredevil #209.
According to as 1984 interview in Amazing Heroes ("Two
Men Without Fear" by Bob Sodaro, AH 44, April 1, 1984, Fantagraphics
Books) Ellison came to write this issue as a favor to then writer
Denny O'Neil who was entering the hospital for a short time (although
it mean putting off the story he was supposed to write for Batman
editor Julie Schwartz). Working with
Arthur Byron Cover, who was more familiar with the then current
state of the character, he wrote a 24 page treatment for the issue,
complete with dialogue and character motivation. Although he did
not write the following issue, Ellison left a "stinger" at the end
of the story so that another author could follow the story up later.
Cover then continued the story in issue 209 from Ellison's idea.
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