Daredevil #99

[iamrman]

Writer: Steve Gerber

Pencils: Sam Kweskin

Inks: Syd Shores

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Hawkeye is in town and he isn’t happy that Black Widow has a new man.

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Consent is for other heroes, apparently.

He canna see, man! He canna see! (Let’s see how many people understood that reference!)

Daredevil finds Hawkeye having just beaten up some bikers. Hawkeye being Hawkeye assumes he is there to continue the fight.

Now, kiss.

Work it, Matthew!

Comments

[dan_ingram]

I recall Waid recounting this story in his DD run. You couldn't have scanned Matt getting knocked out in one punch?

[scorntx]

Nat this issue: "Ooh, you Avengers are so annoying!"
Nat, the Avengers issue following: "I wanna be an Avenger!"
Nat, the issue after that: "Nah, changed my mind."

Make up your damn mind, Natasha.
(Although, to be fair, the issue she left was the same issue that brought us the ever-fragrant Mantis. So good on Nat's instincts.)

[jkcarrier]

Ah, 1970s Marvel, when heroes would go after each other with the flimsiest of excuses.
Is this the only time Gerber ever wrote Hawkeye? He seems to have a pretty good handle on him.
I really like Sam Kweskin's art on this issue. A cursory web search shows that he did a number of stories for Marvel in the 1950s, but only a handful of issues in the superhero era.

[zachbeacon]

It's funny to me that so much of Hawkeye and Hank Pym's history is just other heroes laughing at them behind their backs.

Iron Man: So Antman keeps talking about how much my skills are wasted on my idiot boss as if that's supposed to endear me to him.

Daredevil: Once I had to pretend Hawkeye blinded me just to maintain my secret identity.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Wow, what's going on with Hawkeye here? This feels kinda different to how I'm used to seeing him.

[zachbeacon]

This feels pretty consistent with how he was at the time but he grew a lot between here and Thunderbolts.

It doesn't help that a lot of modern interpretations (MCU, Bendis, original Ultimate) just aren't recognizable as Hawkeye.

[wizardru]

Having recently read the early Avengers runs...this is pretty consistent with Silver Age Hawkeye. Always with a chip on his shoulder and ready to fight for the flimsiest of reasons (and you'd be surprised if you haven't read them how often most of the mid-1960s Avengers comics were just them constantly squabbling with each other over stupid things).

It wasn't that long in the past from this issue that Hawkeye had gone to rescue Black Widow from her ex-husband, the Red Guardian, who had come to retrieve her. Hawkeye would remain like this for years more, though less angry, until he got his own mini-series in 1983 (which is where he met and teamed-up with Mockingbird, soon to be his wife).

Over the years he's changed, mellowed and of course. And the landmark Fraction and Aja 'Hawkguy' run of comics redefined him from the more modern takes.

[zachbeacon]

Fraction and Aja really undid a decade of unrecognizable Hawkeye characterization.