Issue(s): Daredevil #28
Cover Date: May 67
Title: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's planet!"
Credits:
Stan Lee - Writer
Gene Colan - Penciler
Dick Ayers - Inker

Review/plot:
The madness of Mike Murdock continues. Karen is mad at Matt for giving away his "brother's" secret ID to the Masked Marauder this issue.

Then Daredevil fights some aliens that want to make everyone go blind.

Seriously. Bad.

Part of the problem might be that Mike Murdock is Matt's way of role-playing a hipster. I guess that plaid jacket is "ironic".

As ChrisKafka notes, Matt gives a speech here on alien rights that will come back to bite him nearly 50 years later.

Quality Rating: D

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

kinda sad that Gene Colan's artwork was wasted on these DD issues while Don Heck was busy mangling the Avengers and Iron man.

Ya gotta put the plaid jackets in context. At the time they were neither "ironic" nor "tacky". They were high fashion and flashy. Look at Season 4 of MAD MEN. It's 1967 and no clothes horse Don Draper of all people wears such sport coats when he goes out on the town (Though not to work. Solid colors are for business. Plaid is for parties.)

I think the plaid jacket, as well as the "hip shades and fedora" just sort of emphasize the "loudness" that they were emphasizing with Mike Murdock...which is obvious because everyone's probably gone nuts at this point. But hey it is hilarious laughing at Mike now since it was so insane.

And i just want to point out the "ironic" thing was just me making a lame hipster joke, since Daredevil calls himself that in that panel.

I knew you were making a hipster joke, but you are clearly an Anti-Plaidite..

You could mention the 4th wall-breaking Stan Lee reference. :D
Also, I liked this issue, at least because those aliens didn't try to conquer the Earth. But it's still quite weird and insane to put DD against aliens.

Yep. I'm pretty sure that DD never fought aliens again until some time during Conway's run on the title.
Aliens showed up as a regular Silver Age menace in pretty much every Marvel title, except for Spider Man and DD. It seemed like Lee wanted to keep those characters grounded. I guess he just didn't have any other story ideas for this book that month.

Fighting aliens is good experience for a young superhero, imo. He's better for this having happened.

Actually, Spider-Man fought aliens in Amazing Spider-Man #2. This was even weirder.

Yeah but the aliens who fought with the Tinkerer were retconned into some actors lead by the future Mysterio.

You have to love the 60s, though, when it was all aliens, communists, circus freaks and guys in suits and hats all the time.

This story is actually referenced in Daredevil #30 (2013).
(Not the Mike Murdoch bits though.)

Bet Swingin' Stan had an outfit just like that. This is fantasy role-playing for Stan. Yeah baby

I remember when that sort of jacket was considered cool just look at any 60's sitcom. The aliens were odd for that title but Marvel wasn't the only one guilty of that. Look at DC's Batman in the late 50's and early 60's. It was littered with aliens until someone got smart and in 1964 came out with the New Look for Batman and vastly improved the Batman titles by dropping all the sci fi silliness that seemed totally inappropriate for the character.