Warning: contains spoilers for Daredevil #26!
Daredevil #26 - from Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, and Mike Hawthorne - doesn't exactly struggle for villains. But as the King in Black strikes, enhancing deadly villain Typhoid Mary, and his symbiote dragons attempt to raze New York, Matt Murdock is confronted by a less flashy enemy, but one way more capable of making his life hell in the months and years to come. Unfortunately for Matt, the antagonist making his debut this issue is nursing a major grudge, being the father of a classic Daredevil villain.
Daredevil #26 is full of exciting developments in the narrative: Knull and his army descend upon Manhattan, Typhoid returns to defend the Kingpin, and the new Daredevil finally squares off against a threat that can test her skills to their limits. It's an action-oriented issue that intersperses Matt's prison storyline with Elektra's street-patrol as the two react to the invasion. But before the destruction, readers get an interesting callback to a past villain, one that crossed paths with Daredevil nearly 70 years ago.
Some time before Knull's attack on the city, Daredevil is brought to the prison warden's office. Once inside, the warden reveals his surname is "Hollis": the father of Mason Hollis, aka the super-villain Crime-Wave who Daredevil first faced all the way back in Daredevil vol. 1 #59, published in December of 1969. "I know what you're thinking, but I harbor no ill will," the warden confides to Daredevil. "My son was hurting people and needed to be brought to justice... just like you." Matt reflects that a fellow prisoner's earlier jibes about him getting out early were inaccurate - his super-senses mean that whatever Hollis says, Matt knows what he means, and he reaches the conclusion that the only way he's leaving prison early is in a body bag, implying Hollis is intending to make his life hell on the inside, or even to literally steer him into life-threatening danger.
The man who came to be known as Crime-Wave, once the Assistant District Attorney, ran a racketeering ring so vast and powerful that many citizens refused to report their actions, conveniently "forgetting" any trouble existed whenever questioned by the police. When Daredevil began causing trouble for his organization, Crime-Wave hired Stunt-Master and Torpedo to kill him, but were both defeated. In Torpedo's case, blind ex-police officer Willie Lincoln saved Daredevil's life, pushing Torpedo off a building and killing him. Matt's partner Foggy Nelson ended up unmasking Crime-Wave himself before he was turned over to the police.
Though Matt is assimilated by Knull at the end of the issue, he's serving his prison term by choice, having handed himself in after accidentally killing a criminal. It's possible the corrupting effects of the King in Black's symbiote will curdle Matt to the extent he hurts Hollis, but even if not, the former Daredevil has a tough decision ahead of him. Does he return to confinement knowing the man who controls his entire life may be looking to take it away, or go on the run, betraying his moral stand and squandering any hopes of a normal life? Answers will come as the series continues from Marvel Comics.
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