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In showdowns 5, #185 has guttered his opponents whereas showdown 6 has ended with a tie between #225 and #291.

Let's see which contenders will join them for Round 2 !

ROUND 1
Showdown 1 : #169 "Devils" (8 votes) vs #245 "Burn !" (3 votes)
Showdown 2 : #191 "Roulette" (11) vs #247 "The Backwards Man" (1)
Showdown 3 : #192 "Promises" (4) vs #266 "A Beer With The Devil"(5) vs V2 #88 "The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson" (1)
Showdown 4 : #219 "Badlands" (3) vs #268 "Golden Rut" (7) vs V2 #94 "Our Love Story" (0)
Showdown 5 : #185 "Guts" (7) vs #223 "The Price" (1) vs #277 "Of Crowns and Horns" (1)
Showdown 6 : #225 ". . . And Then You Die" (4) vs #291 "All The News That Fits"(4)
Showdown 7 : #208 "The Deadliest Night of My Life" vs #236 "American Dreamer" vs #304 "34 Hours"
Showdown 8 : #220 "Fog" vs #238 "It Comes With The Claws" vs #380 "Just One Good Story"
ROUND 2
Showdown 9 : #169 "Devils" vs #185 "Guts"
Showdown 10 : #191 "Roulette" vs #225 ". . . And Then You Die" vs #291 "All The News That Fits"
Showdown 11 : #266 "A Beer With The Devil" vs Winner of 7
Showdown 12 : #268 "Golden Rut" vs Winner of 8
ROUND 3
Showdown 13 : Winner of 9 vs Winner of 11
Showdown 14 : Winner of 10 vs Winner of 12
FINAL :
Showdown 15 : Winner of 13 vs Winner of 14

Showdown 7 is featuring mostly action-packed issues.
- V1 #208, by Arthur Byron Cover and Mazz, sees DD dodging deathtraps for 22 pages.
- V1 #236, by Nocenti and Windsor-Smith, is a team-up with Black Widow to stop a super-soldier gone mad.
- V1 #304, by Chichester and Ron Garney, tells the tale of a very busy day in the life of Daredevil.

By now you're supposed to know the instructions : try to re-read the issues before voting, tell us what you liked (or disliked), which details you remembered, what makes the story special to you... anything you want that relates to the issue !
Express yourself !

This poll will be running for four days.
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This one was easy. I nominated 34 Hours so how could I vote for anything else? It's a great "day in the life of..." story that's just as much a story about New York as it is about Daredevil. I could go on and on, but its greatness pretty much speaks for itself, and it reads like a work of poetry. Love it!
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In this one, I go for #236 "American Dreamer" because I like the pitch : "a team-up with Black Widow to stop a super-soldier gone mad".
There's Tash, good art by Windsor Smith and a kinda touching final scene.
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[Gloria]

I think that "American Dreamer" is a pretty good story. Good points by Nocenti and terrific art by Smith.


... But I voted for "the deadliest night of my life".

The author was not an habitual comics writer, so there's some freshness here in the approach.

This issue breaks a bit with the Miller-stablished pattern of Matt as a tormented hero. here we have Matt so focused into just surviving oner death trap after the other that he has little time to angst around. Each trap requiring a new solution, and the hero's constant need to stay alert. In this story, Matt's brain is as much a tool for survival as his well-trained body and super-senses.

And Mazz is the number one DD artis in my book (which is to say something! as the Devil's got an impresive rooster of pencillers in his story!).

I was sorry about the shark, tho'. Somehow I can't stand the sight of fish being out of breath (Yes, imagine which was the cruellest scene of "Total Recall" for me!)
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