MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY
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"A WILD-RIDE ACCOUNT" —The Hollywood Reporter
"EPIC" —The New York Times
"INDISPENSABLE" —Los Angeles Times
"DEFINITIVE" —The Wall Street Journal
"SCINTILLATING" —Publishers Weekly
“FASCINATING” —GQ
"AUTHORITATIVE" —Kirkus Reviews
"GRIPPING" —Rolling Stone
"PRICELESS" —Booklist
"A MUST FOR ANY SUPERHERO OR POP-CULTURE FAN" —NY Post
"ESSENTIAL" —The Daily Beast
"A SUPERPOWERED MUST-READ" —USA Today
"REVELATORY" —The Miami Herald
"AS FULL OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS, TRAGIC REVERSALS AND UNLIKELY PLOT TWISTS AS ANY BOOK IN THE MARVEL CANON" —Newsday
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Daredevil #188.
“Frank Miller—Writer/Storyteller; Klaus Janson—Penciller/Inker/Colorist”
Black Widow and Elektra by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman, 1983/4.
That’s Angela Bowie as the Black Widow, and Ben Carruthers, who was the trumpet-playing lead in John Cassavetes’ SHADOWS, as Daredevil.
(Source: arcaneimages, via mattfractionblog)
List of Marvel Characters, Ranked by Importance. Circa 1972.
Foggy Nelson and the Black Widow, by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson. Daredevil #189.
Women in Comics: convention program from Delaware Valley Comicart Consortium, 1978. Art by Marie Severin.
Sexiest Marvel comic of all time?
Gene Colan and Bill Everett’s Black Widow, from AMAZING ADVENTURES #5, 1971. When the comic was printed, the contours of the costume were slightly more modest.
Colan and Everett: Putting the va-va-voom into FOOM!
![How Black Widow ended up with Daredevil:“I had come back from a trip to San Francisco,” recalled Gerry Conway, “where I’d taken a ton of photos and fallen in love with the city. I wanted to shake up Daredevil and make it my own. I’d written a Black Widow story, plotted by Roy [Thomas], that Gene Colan had drawn. I was so taken with the character, and Gene’s approach, that I put her in Daredevil as a guest star. There seemed to be some natural chemistry between them. I think Gene’s Black Widow was comics’ first empowered, sexy babe.”
(From an interview conducted for Marvel Comics: The Untold Story)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc56kwr6QW1qzoglfo1_250.png)
How Black Widow ended up with Daredevil:
“I had come back from a trip to San Francisco,” recalled Gerry Conway, “where I’d taken a ton of photos and fallen in love with the city. I wanted to shake up Daredevil and make it my own. I’d written a Black Widow story, plotted by Roy [Thomas], that Gene Colan had drawn. I was so taken with the character, and Gene’s approach, that I put her in Daredevil as a guest star. There seemed to be some natural chemistry between them. I think Gene’s Black Widow was comics’ first empowered, sexy babe.”
(From an interview conducted for Marvel Comics: The Untold Story)
Black Widow, back in the day.
There is a tremendous goldmine of more of these pin-ups here.
Black Widow by Jaime Hernandez
The Black Widow in Mystic Comics #4, July 1940. Art by Harry Sahle; Words by George Kapitan. Apparently Gary Panter traveled back in time and colored this page.
