It scores, though, with honesty and realistic rendering of how emotions like grief and love can drive us and leave their mark on us. The writing lacks that ‘loving feel’ for Daredevil that Miller has (this is Loeb’s first and last outing on Daredevil to date) and is more of a tribute to Daredevil’s creators. It’s about the early days of Daredevil rather than a re-imagining like Frank Miller’s version. It doesn’t start at the very beginning when Matt loses his sight, but rather with his father Jack’s boxing career and murder. To process his grief after Karen dies, Murdock/Daredevil pens a series of letters telling Daredevil’s story in flashback. Yellow centres around Matt Murdock’s relationships with his first love Karen Page, his father Jack Murdock, and friend and business partner Foggy Nelson. It’s a companion piece to their previous Spider-Man and Hulk stories, titled respectively Blue and Grey. The earliest work of Stan Lee and Bill Everett on the character is the basis for this story, written by Jeph Loeb and pencilled by long-time collaborator Tim Sale, with yellow the favoured colour. This became the instant classic, Batman: The Long Halloween, as Batman has to stop Holiday, a serial killer who kills people on, well, you know, holidays.Yellow is not so much a reworked origin story of Daredevil than it is a homage to that original story, when in Daredevil first outings his costume was predominantly yellow. Editor Archie Goodwin (like Sale, taken from us way too soon) convinced them to not only come back for another Halloween project, but to do a YEAR-LONG Halloween project this time around. It was enough of a success that the two paired up for two more (surrounding a Wolverine/Gambit miniseries that my buddy Robert just wrote about at CBR) before figuring that they were done in with the final one of their Halloween "trilogy" in 1995. The two then teamed up again in 1993 to do a Batman Halloween comic book. RELATED: Wonder Woman: In Which Comic Was She Originally Meant to Debut?Īs you likely know by now, Loeb and Sale first worked together on a miniseries for DC in 1991 called Challengers of the Unknown. These are the two OFFICIAL crossovers between Batman and Daredevil, but there was another "secret" crossover, of sorts, involving the Batman and Daredevil work of the great Jeph Loeb and the late, great Tim Sale.
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