Book Six: The Final Bell
The conclusion to this timeless look at one of Marvel's most popular heroes. Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (Batman: The Long Halloween and Superman: For All Seasons) expand the origin of the blind lawyer who, when tragedy strikes, dons a yellow costume and seeks justice outside the law!
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On the whole it's a fantastic book and a very sincere love letter to early DD
While Spider-Man Blue remains my favorite of the Color series, this is a very close second. I think what cinches it for me is that despite really loving the exploration here, I do think the romance is a bit trope-y. I understand it's a celebration of comics, and especially early comics where this sort of love triangle was especially common, but it feels like it's missing a bit of depth in a book that is simultaneously giving all these other early, silly silver age elements a fair share of depth. It's still very well written. Even with my gripes, it does what all the Color series tended to do, which was pull out the emotion of these ideas and put those on display, and really make the reader internalize them, and that's a fantastic reading ex more
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