Plunderer = Fail
Summary:
We find out that it was The Plunderers sidekick Feepers who fired the rocket that knocked out our heroes. Yet Daredevil is only faking, so when Feepers begins to drive away, from a car that seems to be quite close to our downed heroes, Daredevil leaps on the top for a free ride to the castle.
Back at the castle, the Plunderer has a run in with his butler, and in the midst of their fight, the butler accidently kills Feepers.
the Plunderer then takes his stone into the Ore room where he and Daredevil have a fight, but when the police arrive ( With Ka-Zar in tow ) Daredevil makes his escape.
Matt Murdoch calls Foggy Nelson so he can come to England and defend Ka-Zar in court. In the meantime, The Plunderer has fashioned a gun and armor for him and his men, so they can hold the world hostage.
Art:
Not a fan of the Plunderer designs. Either with the dracula cape, or his supervillain costume. Actually especially his supervillain costume. Even his henchmen do not look all that threatening. The individual panels look good, the book looks good, it is the character design that seems uninspired.
Story :
Okay, so we are to believe that when a rocket goes off near Daredevil, his thought is " Is this the end? Will I never see Foggy or Karen again?" I know they couldn't ( and still can't ) yell "WTF!!!" but a sound effect of the wind being knocked out of them would have been more realistic.
Yet that is the problem with this entire storyline, there just does not seem to be a lot of realism. Maybe Stan just wanted to get DD out of the city for awhile, but what we ended up getting was a story that made no sense, nor did it make sense for Daredevil to be involved.
Over All :
Sorry, this clinched a not recommended grade when they had the villain making a last minute confession to the murder that had Ka-Zar imprisoned. They saved the worst for last with this storyline.
