84. Daredevil vol 1 #260 ... Marvel ... JR Jr ...

I did collect Uncanny X-Men and loved it but at that time, it was more the storyline than the artwork. However, when John Romita Jr was on this title, it was WOW and I started collecting DD on a regular basis even after he left, I followed it off and on when Ann Nocenti was still the writer because she made DD go on very off-the-beaten track style of stories

Anyway, in this issue, we see a DD that has been having a bad few days and still trying to recover. Unknown to him, thanks to the Kingpin, he is a marked man and all the villains are lined up waiting to see him. And see him they do

So one by one, they come at him - from some common psycho thugs that he encountered earlier, to some nasty crazies without superpowers but with super weapons. They all beat our DD to bits and as he try to get away, he encounters even more of them until as the cover shows, he fell ... and was to be found only by Typhoid Mary. She loves him, she kills him. She is schizophrenic with huge mental abilities and ninja like moves

It's beautiful because the story telling this time is straightforward and the action is street level grittiness ... and the ending? Leaves you wondering how he is going to pick himself up at the end of the issue. At least, here they didn't pretend that there may or may not be a next issue. Mary didn't kill him. She knew he was badly beaten and bruised and she decided to just drop him off and let him fall and let him lie there ...

Ratings:8/10