I wanted to maintain the dirt and grime of the city, along with familiar architecture. I looked up Hell’s Kitchen, and tried to get a feel for that, and compared it to how Mazzucchelli portrayed it in the book. He had this to say:īelieve or not, part of the fun for me, is the research. The use of the city and city themes is inspired, as are the chapter dividers with newer Mazzucchelli Daredevil art. There isn’t complete cohesion between the endpapers, chapter dividers and indices, but it’s clean and well presented. Shrinkwrapped and sold in a sturdy cardboard case.ĭesign by Randall Dahlk, early in the Artist’s Edition line. Solid sewn binding, a little too tight to allow the book’s pages to open flat. Closing everything out is a one page biography of Mazzucchelli. An insightful introduction by the artist sets the stage, and then in the Gallery there are two covers, the Marvel Age below my favourite, and several pages of pencil roughs and breakdowns from the artist. Unless you know it’s missing as you read the story it doesn’t detract.

This is mentioned up front and in the extras at the back are the pages in colour with the overlays so you know what’s missing.

What’s missing are eight vellum overlays done for specific colour printing, where Mazzucchelli did the extra colour of the page for specific imagery. Zip-A-Tone and ink applied in just the right spots. Mazzucchelli’s art is already clean with minimal shading. The art is clean and well preserved with minimal aging or yellowing. Issue 233 shows up a lot on Comic Art Fans so that’s one but it’s a guess as to the other.Īnd what scans they are. He either had the art or had excellent colour scans of the art, after selling two issues from the series. All the art is here, covers and interiors, direct from Mazzucchelli. One of the greatest Daredevil stories ever told, David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil Born Again: Artist’s Edition is the ultimate version.Īrguably the best Daredevil story ever, Born Again is a high water mark for Frank Miller’s writing and David Mazzucchelli’s art.

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