Issue(s): Daredevil #312, Daredevil #313
Cover Date: Jan-Feb 93
Title: "Hot flashes" / "So cold it burns"
Credits:
D.G. Chichester - Writer
Scott McDaniel - Penciler
Bud LaRosa - Inker
Pat Garrahy - Assistant Editor
Ralph Macchio - Editor

Review/plot:
Daredevil tries to sort out a mystery regarding who burned down a pizza place. Suspects include some mob enforcers and a young woman whose boyfriend died in the fire. The woman doesn't want to admit in front of her mother that she and her boyfriend were having sex and she's pregnant. But Matt Murdock/Daredevil eventually gets to the bottom of things and uncovers the fact that the restaurant owners burnt their building down for the insurance money.

This is exactly the sort of plot that i would say that Daredevil should be doing most of the time. No supervillains, no story about Matt's life falling apart. Just a regular crime mystery for him to solve. And yet i have to say that it's way too bland. Perhaps relatedly, both issues have a blurb on the letters page begging people to write in with feedback.

The art can sometimes get a little weird...

...but for the most part Scott McDaniel does a decent, if not spectacular, job.

Issue #313 also has a Prowler pin-up. Seems like an odd place for it, except that it's by McDaniel.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A