Jan 11, 2021
Quick, name a Daredevil villain. Was it Kingpin? Of course it was. Daredevil’s rivalry with Wilson Fisk is the stuff of career-making storylines and Netflix TV shows. And yet, if you really want to get picky, Kingpin debuted as a rival for Spider-Man, not Daredevil. Doesn’t Daredevil have any of his own bad guys? Well, yes…
technically.
Here at Book Riot, we’ve done severallists about the bestsupervillains. This is not one of them. Daredevil literally had no “best” villains in the 1960s. I have read every regular issue (i.e. no annuals) of
Daredevil with a ’60s cover date that’s Issues 1–59 so I speak from personal experience when I say that early Daredevil villains are all varying flavors of hilariously terrible, forgettably terrible, and terrible terrible. It’s amazing that Daredevil lasted so long without getting even a sniff at a decent arch-nemesis.
Wretched, vile, appalling don t cover it. Grim, ghastly, abominable are weak.
When it comes to 2020, the year of COVID, of quarantine, of unemployment, of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, of forest fires and hurricanes and nonstop election madness, of closed schools and shuttered restaurants and 3,000 dead
every day the equivalent of a new 9/11 every 24 hours the English language fails us.
Luckily, the English prepared for just such an emergency.
Latin, at the great British public schools, was always the basis of a gentleman s education. So Queen Elizabeth II didn t hesitate when confronted by the year 1992.
It was, she said famously, her