Episode 5 - Murdock and Marvel: 1967
This year we begin to see the backlash against superheroes as the Batman TV show enters its 3rd and final season, and many comic companies began to feel the effects of a contracting market and superhero fatigue. 
Preshow
Announcement: Murdock and Marvel moves back to Wednesday Starting Next Week
Marvel Unlimited Show will be moving to Fridays

The Year in Comics
Key Happenings
Best Selling Books... and Marvels
The Year in Marvel
While the rest of the comic world was losing ground, the Marvel Comics juggernaut kept rolling.  Marvel’s sales continued to surge, and many Marvel books were now ready to challenge DC’s top offerings.
New Titles
New Characters
Big Moments
Who's in the Bullpen
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Herb Trimpe

The Year in Daredevil 
Appearances: Daredevil Issues #24-35, Strange Tales #156 and Daredevil Annual #1
Stan Lee and Gene Colan are credited with all of these stories  
After helping Ka-Zar, the Jungle Lord at his Castle in Europe. Daredevil returns to New York  
Spider-Man sends a letter to Murdock revealing he knows that Murdock is Daredevil – that letter is read by Nelson and Page – so to cover, Murdock invents a twin brother, Mike Murdock, who is actually Daredevil.  
We learned that the Masked Marauder was Mr. Farnam, Nelson and Murdock’s office landlord.   
Daredevil takes on the Emissary of Evil (headed by Electro) in his first Annual. 
Marauder joins forces with Stiltman (yes, we had a return of Stiltman) but the two together still aren’t enough to take down Daredevil (who got lent a hand from Spider-Man) Marauder is killed in the process.  
Daredevil, while giving a lecture at Carter College, fights an alien race of beings called the Queega who have come to earth to take its natural resources.  
Daredevil decides to dress up as Thor to flush out some bad guys he recently defeated and ends up fighting it out with the real god of thunder.  
Mr Hyde realizes that Daredevil is blind after he really does become blinded by the villain's plan  
Daredevil must save some precious jewelry at the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal  
Daredevil finishes off the year facing off with the Trapster who’s out to get The Fantastic Four. Sue Storm ends the issue as the bait for a bomb in this cliffhanger.

New Powers, Toys or Places
This Week's Spotlight: Daredevil #28 May 1967 “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Planet”
Recap
Why We Picked This Story
The Takeaway
Comics can’t survive on superheroes alone.
Questions or comments
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THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES 
Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm.  You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/. 
The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts. 
Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data. 
Man Without Fear: Kuljit Mithra’s Daredevil site contains a staggering collection of resources about our hero, including news, interviews and comic details.   
The American Comic Book Chronicles: Published by TwoMorrows, these volumes provide an excellent analysis of American comics through the years.  Because these volumes break down comic history by year and decade they are a great place to get a basic orientation on what is happening across the comic industry at a particular point in time. 
Joshua and Jamie Do Daredevil: A fantastic podcast that does a deep-dive into Daredevil comics.  This ran from 2018-2020, and covered most of the first volume of Daredevil, and was a fun way to get an in-depth look at each issue of Daredevil from 1-377. 
My Marvelous Year: This is a reading-club style podcast where Dave Buesing and friends chose important or interesting books from a particular year to read and discuss.  This helped me remember some fun and crazy stories, an