| Daredevil Noir |  | Author: Alexander Irvine
Creator: Tom Coker
Publisher: Marvel
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Sales Rank: 992,719
Media: Paperback
Pages: 112
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0785121544
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785121541
ASIN: 0785121544
Publication Date: April 21, 2010
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Product Description
The latest addition to Marvel's red-hot Noir line offers a unique spin on the Man Without Fear! Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen is Kingpin territory, and until now, his only problem has been the masked vigilante known as Daredevil. When gangster Orville Halloran arrives on the scene, fresh from a stretch in Sing Sing and eager to stretch his wings, Hell's about to get hotter. For P.I. Foggy Nelson and his loyal assistant Matt Murdock, it all starts when a desperate woman comes to their office with an irresistible story about her and Halloran. To Foggy, she's a client - to Murdock, she's enough to make Halloran Daredevil's next target. But Murdock is about to find out that half-truths are poison truths, and that the Kitchen is full of history that will put him on a collision course with both the old Kingpin and the man who wants to replace him. Collects Daredevil: Noir #1-4
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an okay offering for an okay series May 29, 2010
Beatriz (USA)
I love a good noir story, so I figured that I would really enjoy the Noir series of stories from Marvel. Some of them have been good, some of them have been blah, and most of them have been somewhere in-between. Daredevil Noir is one of those middling stories; it's an okay read, but there's nothing really spectacular about the story, either.
Daredevil usually has a noirish feel to it anyway, so the character seems like the perfect fit for a Noir take. Daredevil, a former Vaudeville performer who now dons his costume to fight crime in Hell's Kitchen, is not a lawyer here - who's ever heard of a blind lawyer? (He asks himself that question.) Instead, he works for Foggy Nelson, who apparently isn't a lawyer either, but more a private investigator.
I just didn't feel that drawn into the story. It was obvious from the beginning who was going to be the Bull's Eye Killer - after all, every great noir story needs a "dame" who has her own agenda, right? And with the character of Lady Bullseye being introduced in Brubaker's recent run of Daredevil, it didn't take much effort to put two and two together.
The art, as typical with the Noir stories, is really dark. While this helps set the tone of the story, it also makes telling apart certain characters difficult at times. At one point, I mixed up Foggy Nelson and the Kingpin. I wish that the art was a bit clearer.
Although it has nothing to do with the quality of the story (and therefore was not taken into consideration for the star rating), I'm disappointed in how Marvel has been printing these Noir collections. The trade paperback is smaller than typical trades, and the paper is an inferior quality to the standard glossy paper that is used for trade collections. They've been using this method of printing on other collections too (Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers comes to mind, all the while charging the normal trade paperback price!); if this trend continues or expands, I won't be buying nearly as many Marvel trades in the future.
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