Random Happenstance

Today's book was ninety-nine cents in 1996, and a buck last week! Over the Edge #6, "Of Kings...and Bright, Shiny Things" Written by Ralph Macchio, pencils by Robert Brown, inks by Mike Witherby.

This was one of Marvel's ninety-nine cent books, like Avengers Unplugged or Fantastic Four...Unplugged. Arguably a better name; but none of those lasted as long as the excellent Untold Tales of Spider-Man. Still, I kinda liked this one: I didn't recognize his name, but Robert Brown's art wasn't bad. And it wouldn't have been a big deal at the time, but this issue features the return of Killmonger! And also retcons his last appearance, Iron Man Annual #5, as a ploy cooked up with the Mandarin, to see how T'Challa would react to his return. Um, okay. (I haven't read that annual, so maybe his death there was going to be a tough one to get out of!)

Daredevil appears, in a relatively rare less grim-n-gritty period, right before Karl Kesel's very good run; although I think this was a bit of a fallow stretch for Black Panther. He is sporting...some kind of braid? Blame the 90's. This issue also features Klaw, who I remember giving DD a much harder time years later somewhere in Mark Waid's run; but DD seems to have his number here. He does get his costume surprisingly shredded, though. Killmonger is seemingly killed at the end here, just like most of his appearances. It hasn't kept him down!