Daredevil #70 [British]

(November 1970)

The Tribune (Table of Contents: 1)

Daredevil / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script

Gary Friedrich (credited)

Pencils

Gene Colan (credited)

Inks

Syd Shores (credited)

Colors

Mimi Gold ?

Letters

Sam Rosen (credited)

Job Number

360-Z

Genre

superhero

Characters

Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Foggy Nelson, Karen Page; Tribune [Buck Ralston] (villain, introduction); Walter Cronkite (cameo)

Synopsis

A movie mogul decides that he needs to take an active (and violent) hand in dealing with those he considers un-Americans. Daredevil intervenes.

Reprints

• in Diabólico (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1966 series) #70 (30 de abril de 1972)
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #69 (5 septembre 1975)
• in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #217 (November 24, 1976) [first part of the original appearance.]
• in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #3 (2005) [black and white]
• in Daredevil Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #4 - A Woman Called Widow (2019)

Indexer Notes

Pages 12 and 13 are half art/half ad.

Danger on the Field (Table of Contents: 2)

Lee Jeans [Lee Leens] / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Jim Driscoll

Synopsis

Jim saves Big Joe's little sister when she wanders onto the field during the high school football game.

Keywords

football

Indexer Notes

Ad in comic format for Lee Leens jeans. H. D. Lee Company, Inc., Fashion Division, PO Box 440, Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66201.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 0.4 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

List and teasers for Marvel comics currently on-sale.

Marvel Goes Mod(el)! (Table of Contents: 4)

Marvelmania / advertisement / 0.6 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mike Royer (signed as MR); ?

Inks

Mike Royer (signed as MR); ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Thor; Spider-Man (cameo); Hulk (cameo); Iron Man (cameo; Captain America (cameo); Daredevil (cameo)

Indexer Notes

Illustrated ad for molded 3-D statues of Marvel characters. (Apparently plastic figures made by Marx.) Two sets of three heros each. One set for $1.50 plus 50 cents postage or both sets for $2.50 plus 50 cents postage from Marvelmania, Dept. B, PO Box 718, Culver City, Calif 90230. Thor figure is signed "MR". Headshots on the sides appear to be art from published stories/covers.

A Pride of Pronouncements for a Frenzy of Fans! (Table of Contents: 5)

Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed); ?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Stan's Soapbox asks fans to "condense your most profound expression about "what it's all about" into one crispy and canny sentence." and send it to him. In other news, photographer Peter Basch visited the Bullpen and took some photos and Columbia University faculty member and poet Ken Koch is a Marvel fan. Princeton's Firestone Library now features Marvel comics. Sgt. Roger D. Landsberger, of the 284th MP Co. in Viet Nam, sends a newspaper photo of "Captain America," one of the V-100 armored vehicles of the 66th Military Police Company in Phu Toi. Dr. Arthur Berger of San Francisco State College is writing a textbook on the "Marvel phenomenon." Actor Orson Bean is using comics at his school in Greenwich Village. Neal Adams has been elected vice-president of the newly-formed Academy of Comic-Book Arts and Stan Lee was voted president.

Now Ya Gotta Believe That Mighty Marvel Is on the Move Again!! (Table of Contents: 6)

Marvel Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Indexer Notes

At bottom of Bullpen Bulletins page. Promo for Sub-Mariner King-Size Special #1 and Avengers King-Size Special #4. Both covers are depicted.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Let's Level with Daredevil / letters page / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Pencils

John Romita; Gene Colan (illustrations)

Inks

John Romita; Syd Shores (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Stan, Roy and Gene, I got a great idea!

Characters

Daredevil

Indexer Notes

Letters of Comment from Bob Garrison (Independence, Mo.), Martin Pasko (Clifton, N.J.), Karl Fritz (Elkhart, Ind.), and Mike W. Barr (Akron, Ohio). Also an explanation of the name change for the villain in this issue (compared to the promos), and two spot illustrations taken from previous issues.

A City Against Him! (Table of Contents: 8)

Spider-Man / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Spider-Man

Indexer Notes

At bottom of second letters page. Illustrated promo for Spider-Man #91 "now on sale!"