Classic Gone-and-Forgotten: Daredevil #311

I've been reading Daredevil since I was seven years old - it was, in fact, the first comic I ever bought with my own money - and in the intervening years since 1953 or whenever that was I have learned to ride the tumultuous seas of Daredevil's ever-fluctuating quality.

The rule on Daredevil is that you usually have to ride out two or three years of really truly horrible stories to get to six or eight months of the book blowing your mind. Can't be helped, what with the creative teams changing every three months or so, back in the old days ... so for every Miller and Mazzuchelli page you got, you had to sit through a heaping handful of Micah Synn or the Beyonder ... for every Ann Nocenti, there's Joe Kelly or J.M.DeMatteis to deal with.

So, with that in mind, I bring you one of my favorite Daredevil covers of all time, coming straight from one of those prolonged periods of crap. I uncovered it while packing off some of my comics to exile at the storage unit, it is Daredevil Volume one number 311 ...

In case you're doubting it, you are indeed seeing a chalk-white Matt Murdock lynching a black man right up in your face. And there is NO getting away from that black guy, he is being about as lynched as you can get, right on up in there.

And here's me seeing that for the first time as a kid :O

But seriously. Man. That's really raising the anti-hero stakes. Wolverine, you need to get in on this ...

The part you probably can't see is that "Man" in "The Man Without Fear" has been scratched out and, in obnoxious purple crayon, been replaced by "Zombie." That's right, it's "The Zombie Without Fear." And then the Voodoo Queen or whatever is laughing so that the title is all but obscured by her busting up, which I totally sympathize with her for because, man, "Zombie Without Fear" is pure LOL juice.

Also, please note that this issue DOES bear a Comics Code seal, only it's facing forward and apparently doesn't see any of the horrible nonsense going on behind it.