You couldn’t publish this today.
You’d have to hide it under seven layers of metaphor.
Credit to Ann Nocenti who has always been an import voice in comics.
Here’s the rest of the panels
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ALTCaptain America in Daredevil #283 (1990) by Ann Nocenti and Mark Bagley.
If you’ve never read Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil run, do it (esp the era with John Romita Jr). It’s reaches so high that it’s breathtaking.
Other thought:
-I think Marvel/Disney would set their creators on fire in public rather than print something like this in 2026.
Ann Nocenti And John Romita Jr.
Forbidden Planet
NYC, NY (c.1985)
Ann Nocenti, one of the best writers Marvel ever had.
I absolutely loved the team of John Romita Jr. and Al Williamson on Daredevil. I have several of their originals. (not this one, though)
Always reblog Romita & Nocenti
Daredevil, Vol. 1 # 281 Page 11 by John Romita, Jr., with Inks by Al Williamson, Letters by Jack Morelli, Colors by Christie “Max” Scheele, and a Script by Ann Nocenti that was Edited by Ralph Macchio.
Always rebloging Ann Nocenti!
Photo cover to Spider-Woman #50, shot behind Bob Camp’s loft on 37th Street by Eliot R. Brown. Painted enhancements by Bob Larkin.
Mike Carlin recalls:
“The Scarecrow was Mark Gruenwald. I was in front of him as The Needle (the guy with the needle). Werewolf By Night was colorist Bob Sharen. The guy hanging off the fire escape is Spongebob animator Vincent Waller. The Moth Lady was Mark G’s wife Belinda. Tigra was Annie Nocenti her own bad self. Brian Postman is the Hangman, though ya can barely see him. Not sure who played The Shroud—Ralph Macchio? White-haired guy in white is letterer Jack Morelli. And Green Hoodie guy MIGHT be Ren & Stimpy animator Bob Camp. Lynn Luckman was a secretary from the business-side of Marvel—and she looked awesome in the suit! In fact she’s the only character painter Bob Larkin didn’t have to “enhance” with costume-lines and such! Lotsa fun here!”See an outtake from the photo shoot at:
http://seanhowe.tumblr.com/post/30407174045/second-unit-photo-shoot-for-spider-woman-50-from
More of Eliot Brown’s work is viewable at
www.eliotrbrown.com
(Please do not copy the photos on his website without his permission.)
A lot of important people in this cover photo.
Daredevil #252-273 by Ann Nocenti, John Romita Jr. and Al Williamson
One of the first comics I read monthly, and years later, still one of my favorites. Picking up Nocenti’s Daredevil for the first time as a kid was a revelation. Sure, the book had all the action you’d expect from a superhero comic, but it also had rich layers of ongoing story, resonant thematic content, social and political consciousness, thoughtful character development and one of the best rogue’s galleries (Typhoid Mary, Shotgun, Bullet, the Wildboys, Bushwacker) since the Flash met Captain Cold and the gang.
Nocenti’s fresh, contemporary take on the character was more than enhanced by John Romita Jr.’s pencils, which themselves were further enhanced by Al Williamson’s inks. As creative partners, Nocenti and Romita made perfect sense. Both were young, up-and-coming talents with unique, hip styles influenced by new wave 80′s. Williamson was more of a wild card. He was old school, coming up as an artist for EC Comics and spending much of his time prior to Daredevil working on more straightforward sci-fi comics, like Star Wars and Flash Gordon. And yet Williamson and Romita’s art meshes perfectly. As a great inker, Williamson understood what was special about Romita’s art and enhanced it.
The result was a creative team working perfectly in synch, coming to the exact right character at the exact right time. Nocenti’s Daredevil is not just one of the best, probably the best, Daredevil runs of all time, and not just one of the best superhero comics of all time, but, with its perfect blend of style and substance, off the wall action and moving emotional weight and the synchronicity its three creators brought to one anothers work and to the atmosphere of series as a whole, it’s one of the best comics of all time.
Harris Smith is a production coordinator, social media editor and creator outreach specialist at comiXology. He’s watching Daredevil season 2 as he writes this and having a pretty good time.
Ann Nocenti/John Romita Jr/Al Williamson on Daredevil is just, like, the perfect comic. I wrote something about it for work. @zegas @charlesforsman @traditionalcomics i’m guessing you guys have all read this, but if not, i highly recommend it!
You guessed right, brother. And I 100% agree. Great write-up!
Everything Nocenti & Romita did on DD is my favorite comics run of all time.
