Episode Details

After the wonders of 1986 the comic industry found itself with a glut of new companies, new titles, and new awards shows.  How would it all work out?  Lets go back to ’87 and find out…

PreShow Banter 

• A tweet from Forrest about the Watchmen books.

The Year in Comics 

Notable and Newsworthy

Industry Trends

Awards

Dan's Favorite

The Year in Marvel

Events & Happenings

New Series/Limited Titles

New Characters

Series Ending

Who's in the Bullpen

• ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Mark Bagley

Dan's Favorite

The Year in Daredevil 

Appearances: Daredevil #238-249, Amazing Spider-Man #284 and #286-288, Marvel Saga the Official History #14-16 and #23, Classic X-Men #6, Marvel Fanfare #31, Spectacular Spider-Man #128, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 and Web of Spider-Man #30 

Writing credits: Ann Nocenti (238-245, 247-249), Jim Owsley (246) 

Pencilers: Sal Bucema (238), Louis Williams (239-240, 243-244), Todd McFarland (241), Keith Pollard (242), Chuck Patton (245), Tom Morgan (246), Keith Giffen (247), Rick Loenardi (248-249) 

Inks: Steve Leiaoha (238), Al Williamson and Geof Isherwood (239), Williamson (240, 248-249), Al Milgrom (241), Danny Bulanadi (242) Williamson and Bulandi (243), Tony DeZuniga (244-246), Dan Hunt (247)

• Nerdist top Daredevil comic runs: https://nerdist.com/article/10-greatest-daredevil-comic-book-runs-of-all-time-ranked/ 
• The year begins with the Daredevil befriending a group of kids called the Fatboys – who we’ll see many more times throughout the year – and Daredevil save a girl from Sabretooth 
• We then get a series of stories from Nocenti featuring a new villain – First is Rot-Gut a Jack-the Ripper style villain who doesn’t have powers – just likes to cut up people, Next we had the Trixster who’s causing problems for the city of New York over Christmas, An everyday man accidently kills his boss and becomes the Caviar killer, and finally a drug dealer who uses voodoo to control things that incurs the wrath of a real voodoo creature. 
• We then get likely the best story of the year and it guest stars the Black Panther. This will be our spotlight story for the week. 
• As the year continues, we have more solo book stories that feel similar in scope and impact to the character as the ones before the spotlight book. We do see the return of Black Widow for an issue as the pair take down a deranged super soldier. Karen tries to get Matt back into office work by surprising him with new offices  
• There is a short-lived subplot where Karen Page starts to be frightened by the violence Daredevil dishes out, but she came to see it as fine after an issue or two. 
• The year ends with a two-book story arc involving another new villain, Bushwacker, who has an arm he can convert into a gun that sees the return of Wolverine to aid him in tracking the villain – which leads to a battle between the two over how justice should be handled. In this story we also meet Tyrone Janson – who is blinded by chemicals dumped in the Hudson River. 

New Powers, Toys or Places

New Supporting Characters

New Villains

This Week's Spotlight: Daredevil #245 August 1987 “Burn”

Recap

Why We Picked This Story

The Takeaway

Bills come due.

Questions or comments

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