Just a quick recommendation for Daredevil #1.50 (that’s one point five zero rather than simply one point five for Daredevil’s 50th anniversary and because the first story is set some 10+ years in the future when Matt Murdock is 50 years old).
The book’s former editor challenged Mark Waid to write an anniversary tale which looks toward the future rather than the past, and Waid delivered. The story is peppered with loads of foreshadowing of the direction the new series will take.
The second story is prose, written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated (beautifully) by Alex Maleev. I’m not a big fan of Bendis, but his prose writing is lovely. I read very little of his run, but this story is the last will and testament of the gal Matt Murdock married, so it’s “forward looking” in a way, too.
The third story is drawn by writer Karl Kesel in the style of Gene Colan (and inked by Colan inker Tom Palmer). It is also a last will and testament (after a fashion), but this one is for Matt’s “brother” Mike.
I heartily recommend Daredevil #1.50 to current, new and lapsed DD readers.
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I sort of liked it, but wasn't blown away by it. It also wasn't clear to me that the woman narrator in the second story is the same off-screen woman in Matt's life in the first story. And I don't know which is better, if she is or if she isn't.
On the other hand, having the "Mike" Murdock tale follow the Bendis/Maleev story shows just how much the book has changed over the years ... and how desperately it needed to again be the kind of book that could include Mike Murdock.
As for the gimmick numbering: The teeny tiny indica called this issue #36.