"And I also didn’t want to do the 800th “Oh he has cancer in a superhero book! What will the superhero do? Surely there’s a way to fix it! Oh wait, you can’t beat cancer.” I don’t want to do that kind of story. You know, the story where Daredevil walks around the Marvel Universe for an issue trying to get people to cure cancer for him and being told, “We can go to the Negative Zone, Daredevil, but we can’t cure cancer.” So that’s the first trap you have to avoid when doing that kind of story." -- Mark Waid

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"[A]s I got into my 30s and I got into my 40s, I really started to understand a lot more about what I have learned both good and bad from superhero comics as a kid. The upsides -- the obvious upsides: do the right thing, and save cats from trees, and be honest to people, help little old ladies across the street. The darker stuff that you learn... I mean, Jesus, everything emotionally stunted and wrong about me I learned from Mort Weisinger. ... I brought even more personal issues to Daredevil in terms of a lifelong struggle with depression. How you deal with that and don't deal with that, that's something I get a chance to work out with these characters, both Bruce Banner and Matt Murdock." -- Mark Waid

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The Rocketeer's confrontation with dinosaurs from Skull Island and Doc Savage's arch-nemesis, John Sunlight, continues.

( THE ROCKETEER: CARGO OF DOOM #2-3 )

Here are seven pages from last month's DAREDEVIL #18 and four pages from this week's DAREDEVIL #19...

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Seven pages from DAREDEVIL 16, in which Hank Pym pulls an inside job...

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Previously in DAREDEVIL, Matt Murdock ruined the mega-crime organizations' (AIM, HYDRA, the Secret Empire, etc.) deal to filter their money through Latveria's banks. (It's analogous to how modern merchant ships will fly flags of convenience.) Someone is not happy about that...

( Four pages from DAREDEVIL 14... )