DAREDEVIL (1964-98) #168
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origin and 1st app Elektra by Frank Miller; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 9 (CBI)
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origin and 1st app Elektra by Frank Miller; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 9 (CBI)
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white pgs 1041010001
origin and 1st app Elektra by Frank Miller; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 9 (CBI)
For those comic book fans who were around when Frank Miller took the reins of the Daredevil series, it is remembered as a moment in the industry that was a certifiable game changer. Miller, previous to his run on DD, had been honing his craft as a bullpen artist for Marvel, doing spot work on a variety of titles, but once he became the main artist for the sagging Daredevil, he came into his own, and changed the landscape of comics forever.
Miller's sparse and emotional style lent itself to a wide palette of techniques, playing with panel design, and employing a surreal manga-influenced approach, Miller turned Daredevil into a hot ticket as well as an enduring topic of conversation around the comic book community. In issue #168, he introduces one of his most enduring characters, the tragic and magnificent Elektra, love interest and deadly opponent of Matt Murdock. Elektra originally lived for just a handful of issues, meeting her fate at the hands of Bullseye, but was resurrected, rebooted, retconned and reincarnated repeatedly, as you just can’t keep a good character down. The sai-wielding assassin just refuses to stay dead. And this is where it all began.
"Elektra" misspelled "Elecktra" on cover
Artists Information
Frank Miller is an American comic book writer, penciller and inker, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, and 300. Miller revolutionized comic art in the 80s with his work on Marvel's Daredevil.
Klaus Janson is a German-born American comics artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies. While he is best known as an inker, Janson has frequently worked as a penciler and colorist. Janson began working for DC Comics in the early 1980s and inked Gene Colan's pencils on Detective Comics and Jemm, Son of Saturn. Janson was one of the artists on Superman #400 (Oct. 1984) and was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series. His collaboration with Miller on Daredevil would soon be eclipsed by a second collaboration between them, on Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in 1986. Janson inked the early issues of The Sensational Spider-Man which had been written and penciled by Dan Jurgens. Janson's work as an inker and occasional penciler at Marvel Comics includes collaborations with John Romita Jr. on Wolverine, The Amazing Spider-Man and Black Panther.
origin and 1st app Elektra by Frank Miller; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 9 (CBI)
For those comic book fans who were around when Frank Miller took the reins of the Daredevil series, it is remembered as a moment in the industry that was a certifiable game changer. Miller, previous to his run on DD, had been honing his craft as a bullpen artist for Marvel, doing spot work on a variety of titles, but once he became the main artist for the sagging Daredevil, he came into his own, and changed the landscape of comics forever.
Miller's sparse and emotional style lent itself to a wide palette of techniques, playing with panel design, and employing a surreal manga-influenced approach, Miller turned Daredevil into a hot ticket as well as an enduring topic of conversation around the comic book community. In issue #168, he introduces one of his most enduring characters, the tragic and magnificent Elektra, love interest and deadly opponent of Matt Murdock. Elektra originally lived for just a handful of issues, meeting her fate at the hands of Bullseye, but was resurrected, rebooted, retconned and reincarnated repeatedly, as you just can’t keep a good character down. The sai-wielding assassin just refuses to stay dead. And this is where it all began.
"Elektra" misspelled "Elecktra" on cover
Artists Information
Frank Miller is an American comic book writer, penciller and inker, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, and 300. Miller revolutionized comic art in the 80s with his work on Marvel's Daredevil.
Klaus Janson is a German-born American comics artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies. While he is best known as an inker, Janson has frequently worked as a penciler and colorist. Janson began working for DC Comics in the early 1980s and inked Gene Colan's pencils on Detective Comics and Jemm, Son of Saturn. Janson was one of the artists on Superman #400 (Oct. 1984) and was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series. His collaboration with Miller on Daredevil would soon be eclipsed by a second collaboration between them, on Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in 1986. Janson inked the early issues of The Sensational Spider-Man which had been written and penciled by Dan Jurgens. Janson's work as an inker and occasional penciler at Marvel Comics includes collaborations with John Romita Jr. on Wolverine, The Amazing Spider-Man and Black Panther.