#lee murdock

[clove-pinks]

I'm listening to "Perry's Victory On Lake Erie" on repeat and while this song is fire, it also feels like a prime candidate for "readers added context" style fact checking.

Columbian tars are the true sons of Mars, who rake fore and aft when they fight on the deep.

On the bed of Lake Erie, commanded by Perry, they caused many Britons to take their last sleep.

💬 Readers added context they thought people might want to know. The average depth of Lake Erie is only about 19 metres (62 feet).

(See also "the whole British fleet, was captured complete"; and claiming that Perry is better than Nelson and Rodney).

Not only did Oliver Hazard Perry have a huge advantage in broadside weight over the British (far from being an underdog as the song implies), but allegedly he made poor tactical decisions and was saved by Perry's Luck, a very favourable change of wind. So he won the Battle of Lake Erie in part because of an act of God and/or spiritual forces of Lake Erie, I'm just sayin.

The naval history channel Drachinifel made a great youtube video called "War of 1812 - Freshwater Edition."

While I think there is some excessive clowning on the size of the Great Lakes compared to the open ocean—never mind that there was also a naval battle on Lake Champlain, which is vastly smaller than Lake Erie—the video does make clear that the lake-going ships did not need to be built to the same level of sturdiness as ocean-going vessels. And they used this weight advantage in construction for More Gun, making the Great Lakes naval battles of the War of 1812 huge artillery showdowns.

#war of 1812 #lake erie #oliver hazard perry #lee murdock #age of sail #military history #naval history #naval battle #us navy #great lakes #ohio #music #folk songs #age of fighting sail #and how

[mr-foods]

black suit

#marvel #spiderman #venom #eddie brock #peter parker #mac gargan #matt murdock #spidergwen #flash thompson #kron stone #lee price #my art #fanart

[616mattfoggymoments]

Daredevil (1964) #7 | Stan Lee & Wally Wood

#matt murdock #daredevil #daredevil comics #daredevil (1964) #dd: volume 1 #stan lee #wally wood #mattfoggy #issue: v1.7

[usaigi]

How @yellowocaballero and I Fixed Daredevil by Headcannoning Him as Mexican

When Daredevil first appeared in 1964, he was a second-generation Irish-American from Hell’s Kitchen, a working-class Irish-immigrant neighborhood. In a time where Irish people weren’t viewed as “white” or “real Americas.” They were a part of the oppressed working class, the bottom of the food chain, who had nothing but their religion, the vehicle of their culture from the old world, to keep them together.

Note: Today, the argument that “Irish people aren’t really white” has been co-opted by white supremacists and has often been used in bad faith against POC. I want it to be clear that what is considered “white” is and has always been a political term with no backing in science. Discrimination against the Irish back in the day was tied to anti-Catholic sentiment in predominately Protestant states, such as England, Scotland, and the United States. Naturally, Anti-Catholic discrimination overlaps with nativist, xenophobic, ethnocentric and/or racist sentiments (ie Anti-Italian, Anti-Polish, Hispanicphonia).

Jack Murdock was a poor boxer with no education or prospects who had to exploit his body to provide for Matt. And recognized that not a way to live and thrive, so he pushed Matt into academics for social mobility. Sound familiar?

At its core, the story of Matt Murdock is an immigrant story. Matt has the immigrant mentality;  immigrants-get-the-job-done type of thing. Gotta hustle and became a lawyer because that’s how he moves up the social and class ladder. And when he does “make it” he chooses to stay and help his neighborhood because he has a cultural connection to it. 

This worked in 1964, I don’t know how much it works now.  

Hell Kitchen isn’t a rough neighborhood primarily occupied by working-class immigrants, it’s another gentrified hipster hellhole. Irish people and people of Irish ancestry in the United States no long face systemic discrimination. 

Therefore, modern-day recontextualizing is to make Matt Mexican. 

Technically, Matt can also be from any other Latin American country or Filipino but I lean towards Mexican since a) this is my post go make your own and b) we get the most discrimination from the mainstream media. Yes, a lot of it is because racists use “Mexican” as a catch-all term for anyone from Latin America but still. Trump made his presidential platform by calling Mexicans illegal rapists and druggies. 

If Matt was actually the son of Jack Murdock*, an undocumented brown immigrant living in a working-class immigrant/POC neighborhood, it gives him the underdog immigrant arc the character is missing in modern-day adaptations. Matt's core is still the same Matt we know and love, he’s still the son of a boxer, whose dad’s pushed him into succeeding academically, who lost his dad to gang violence, and who is extremely Catholic. Someone who wants to fit into middle-class educated (white) society and feels like he has to suppress the "devil" inside until one day he can’t. He's seeing discrimination and poverty and crime and gentrification tear his neighborhood apart and the police turn their back on it since it's predominantly POC. The law has failed them, he's not going to fail them too. 

Meg made the fantastic point that Matt should still be white-passing (and ginger) so he could exist somewhere in between worlds.  And Matt takes advantage of that, as well as his Columbia Law degree to help his community. Matt not using his conditional whiteness and the fancy degree to “escape” his community and instead help it.

#daredevil #matt murdock #daredevil comics #marvel #foggy nelson #karen page #comics #stan lee #mcu #charlie cox #usaigi meta #usaigi speaks #mateo murdock au

[so-far-frogs-and-oscar]

Me reading terrible fic on ao3, because I'm desperate for a certain man and I have nothing else left: I'm a survivor. I'm a warrior. I can do this.

#it was disgusting for 50% of time but i tried for the rest #fanfics #fanfiction #x reader #x oc #loki #lee scoresby #matt Murdock #remus lupin #severus snape #din djarin #helmut zemo #cassian andor #kylo ren #marvel #doctor who #jaime lannister #bucky barnes #steve rogers #steven grant #tony stark #bruce banner #jack russell #killian jones #rumplestiltskin #thor #morpheus #sandman #dream of the endless #jack the lamplighter

[daredevil-artwork]

Daredevil by Lee Weeks

#lee weeks #matt murdock #daredevil #marvel #art #artwork #marvel comics #marvel universe #marvel superheroes #the devil of hell's kitchen #the man without fear

[murdockmeta]

A Human Fly: The Importance of Daredevils Before Daredevil

I've recently watched a video on "human flies", a social phenomenon that peaked in the 1920s-30s, where people would go out and do death-defying tricks literally just because they wanted to. (At first. Money became involved later, of course.) They were called human flies (sometimes human spiders, human lizards, etc.) for their ability to climb up the walls of buildings so easily. They weren't just called human flies, though. They were also called daredevils.

The video I watched talked about how this phenomenon was so popular because of the role it played in displaying masculinity. Most of these daredevils were men, and at the time being seen doing these death-defying stunts was the height of manliness. And suddenly, while learning all this new information, all I could wonder is if that at all was related to Stan Lee's motivation behind the creation of Matt Murdock. Anyway, here we go.

Okay, so, gender roles and how they functioned in society around the first half of the 20th century are similar but also different from what they are now. There were stiffly set rules to what it meant to be a man that was entirely unrelated to genitals. These same standards are echoed in the modern day. I don't think it's a coincidence that Matt falls outside of those rules.

Obviously, Matt's blind. Disabled. And, as a fictional character, that had really heavy (negative) implications before the disability rights movement became more popular. You even see that reflected in the comics themselves. There's the implication that Matt is expected to live out his life unhappy, unmarried (which extends to not having children), and is helpless to such a fate. That is the complete opposite of what being a man in US American culture was in the 1950s and 60s. Matt exemplified what it was to not be a man.

Stan Lee, when co-creating this character, takes these concepts that absolutely oppose one another and he smashes them together. It feels like spitting in the face of standards and expectations. He says, "Oh, look, a blind man. A man that can't be a man. I'm going to take him and I'm going to turn him into something that is undeniably manly." Lee does this through this phenomenon that links back to human flies.

Being a human fly was about proving to the people around you that you were a man among men. That you were capable of physical feats that others only could wish to accomplish. And Lee grew up in a time when he was surrounded by these types of people as a child. Most of these people would travel to New York City, where Lee grew up, just to perform these stunts.

How masculinity was defined in that age was rigid. You had to be strong, you had to be capable, you had to have the ability to provide for your family. There were certain elements that also took away from your masculinity. You couldn't be too smart or bookish, you couldn't be too skinny, you couldn't be disabled. And being able to fit into these standards wasn't just about pride, it was about social status.

These human flies were often referred to as daredevils by newspapers. It doesn't seem like much of a reach for me to think that they could've possibly related to Lee's creation of Daredevil.

This strip is from the second issue of volume one.

It was revolutionary* (asterisk), to an extent, what Lee was implying with his creation of Matt's character. That you could be disabled and still be fully capable of accomplishing what society has deemed impossible for you or deemed you unworthy of. That you could represent the peak of masculinity (meaning you could be perceived as an equal to those around you) while having supposed qualities that strike you from it.

I'm not saying that that's a goal that every disabled/blind person has or should have. In fact, under a modern lens, I think it's very counterproductive. But, I think the social and cultural context surrounding the character's creation is important to understand. I think it's important to know why implying those things at the time was important to disabled representation.

Many people don't like or struggle to read older comics due to them aging badly. While I don't blame them, I think there would be less resistance if people stopped trying to interpret those comics through a modern lens.

Context is important. History is important.

(asterisk) *This is in relation to the time-specific era of disabled representation. This is not to ignore the problems with the representation of Matt as a blind man. I'm not saying or implying that there's nothing wrong with the original comics, in fact, they are incredibly ableist. I am simply focusing on the importance of that representation at the time of the issues being published.

Thanks for reading.

#these are the types of things i feel randomly compelled to write about on Saturday afternoons #matt murdock #cw ableism #(just in case) #daredevil #daredevil comics #stan lee #human flies #i'll address the elephant in the room: this undoubtedly has just as much of a connection to the creation of spiderman as well #i just dont feel educated enough on the topic to add him to the post #its definitely worth mentioning though #also hi can you tell im a history major #daredevil meta

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#daredevil #matt murdock #stan lee #marvel #marvel comics #marvel 616 #poll

[thedevotionaltour]

Daredevil #16 - "Enter...Spider-Man!" (March 1966)

Written by Stan Lee Art by John Romita Sr. (pencils), Frank Ray (inks)

#daredevil #matt murdock #spider-man #peter parker #daredevil comics #john romita sr #frank ray #stan lee #frank giacoia #marvel #marvel comics #back issues box #honest to god he really is funny. they'd better. that stuff's expensive! and it came with a thirty-day guarantee! #bonus points again to being an extremely classic distress panel with the combo of dialogue and the art itself. #'maybe this will teach you!' and he's tying him up. #SORRY FOR THOSE COMMENTS see when i was into heroes in middle and high school i saw many a distress blog post float around lmfao. #very classic aspect of superhero fandom to me. and so my brain is trained on it 😭

[smashedpages]

Today in 1964, Daredevil #1 by Stan Lee and Bill Everett hit stands, announcing the arrival of Matt Murdock and his super-hero identity, Daredevil aka the Man Without Fear! We also met his friends Karen Page and Foggy Nelson.

#comics to remember #comics #marvel #comic books #daredevil #stan lee #bill everett #foggy nelson #karen page #matt murdock

[clove-pinks]

I wonder if known James Fenimore Cooper fan Henry T.D. Le Vesconte read Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast??

I (stupid) only just learned that this is the inspiration for Lee Murdock's banger song:

#war of 1812 #henry le vesconte #james fenimore cooper #lee murdock #henry thomas dundas le vesconte #ned myers #age of sail #literature #that feel when htd le vesconte would get a reference that you don't (probably) #Youtube #the ballad of ned myers #music

[briefcasejuice]

i read daredevil for the plot

#'plot' #daredevil #daredevil comics #matt murdock #stan lee #gene colan

[616mattfoggymoments]

Daredevil (1964) #1 | Stan Lee & Bill Everett

#daredevil #daredevil comics #dd: volume 1 #issue: v1.1 #matt murdock #foggy nelson #mattfoggy #daredevil (1964) #stan lee #bill everett

[daresplaining]

Today is October 21st, and you know what that means...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MATT AND MIKE MURDOCK! (And also to Daredevil artist/writer Lee Weeks!)

#Happy [redacted] birthday to the chaos twins themselves. #And Lee Weeks! #Daredevil #Matt Murdock #Mike Murdock

[bi4bisamjess]

fav thing about modern day dd comics and the show: both still operate as if Hell’s Kitchen remains to be the organized crime hellscape-of-a-place-to-live-in neighborhood of the 1960s. like hate to break it to you but baby it’s gentrified now. mr murdock doesn’t have anything to fight other than like bird scooters and overpriced coffee shops tbh

#comics aren’t going for realism Ik I’m just a snob who thinks it’s funny #ada.txt #dd #daredevil posting #okay reasonably the show exists in the post avengers universe where the city was almost destroyed #and the comics are just like that I mean can I blame them #Stan Lee in 1964: he’s a blind lawyer in one of the worst neighborhoods! he fights organized crime with his ninja skills! #present day dd: look dude I’m literally j beating up people for rent money it’s so goddamn expensive here nowadays #this doesn’t make sense oopsie #matt murdock #daredevil #daredevil comics #netflix daredevil #she hulk #karen page #foggy nelson #hells kitchen #elektra natchios #mattfoggy

[daredevil-artwork]

Daredevil by Jae Lee

#jae Lee #matt murdock #daredevil #marvel #art #artwork #marvel comics #marvel universe #the devil of hell's kitchen #marvel superheroes #the man without fear