![]() ![]() ![]() Issues #16-17 are basically Romita’s try-out for Spider-Man sensing Steve Ditko’s dissatisfaction with working for Marvel, Lee wisely got someone up and running, just in case. Jack Kirby did layouts for this and the following issue (#13), but to be honest, it looks more like Romita and less like Kirby. Romita then moved over to DC where he was confined to their romance books, and let’s face it … he drew beautiful people, but wouldn’t you have loved to see a late 1950s/early 1960s Romita superhero book, like Batman or Superman? Stan Lee beckoned him back in 1965, and Romita-who was unceremoniously dumped by Lee in the late ‘50s-came back: Daredevil #12 was his first book, featuring Ka-Zar (with Matt Murdock on an ocean cruise-in a suit and tie-that gets plundered by pirates). ![]() He first did work for the company (when it was Atlas) in the 1950s, notably on Captain America when he was revived for a brief spell alongside the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner. ![]() The best thing about this second Daredevil volume, which reprints #12 through #21, is the return of John Romita to Marvel. ![]()
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