Editor Bernie Jaye gave writer Alan Moore and artist Alan Davis, rising stars in the comics industry at the time, considerable freedom in terms of the material they produced.
Aside from the occasional pull-out posters, all contents were printed in black-and-white, not colour. The magazine had a circulation of around 25,000 copies, and lasted eleven issues before merging with The Mighty World of Marvel.[2][3]
Issues from Frank Miller's Daredevil run were reprinted in black and white, giving the series its title. The stories were originally printed in Daredevil (Vol. 1) #159-170.
The Amazing Spider-Man
Black-and-white reprints of Stan Lee and John Romita material, continued from Marvel UK's Spider-Man Pocketbook series. This feature was dropped after four issues.
One-off Daredevil spoof by Moore and Mike Collins featured in #8.[4] It was Collins' first professional work.[1]
The Origin of the Crusader
One-off humour strip by Davis and Paul Neary featured in #9. Originally printed in Hulk reprint title Rampage Monthly #41 in 1981, this was Davis' first published professional work.[2]
Earth 33⅓
An occasional three-panel humour strip by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett.[3]
Prose stories
Night Raven
New stories featuring the masked vigilante introduced in Hulk Comic, written by Moore and illustrated by Davis, ran from #6-11.
Text features
Moore penned opinion columns including an analysis of Frank Miller's Daredevil in #1,[5] "an affectionate character assassination" of Stan Lee in #4-5 and Invisible Girls and Phantom Women, a text feature on sexism in #4-6.
Steve Moore contributed pieces on Asian comics in #6-8.
Convention reports from Hasan Yusuff
Fanzine Reviews: pieces on comic-related fanzines, again written by Moore.[3]
