In the 70's, Marvel put out a series of original paperback novels from Pocket Books. I loved these books and had them all, then somehow lost them in a move, probably when I purged the collection when I went off to college. Anyway, these books were on the short-list of MUST REPLACE AT ANY COST items that I always have in my head when I'm shopping at shows. I have replaced them all except two of them, #8 and #9.
I finally nailed down #9 from an online dealer. Here it is:
Okay, now here's what had been bugging me. This particular volume was a collection of four short stories. The second one in the book was a Daredevil story and it was
brilliant. I still think it's one of the best Daredevil things anyone's ever done, it predated Frank Miller's noir take by a couple of years and did it better -- well, I think so -- but since it was a prose one-off throwaway, no one saw it. The story was by "Kyle Cristopher" and I was certain it was a pen name, but I couldn't figure out WHOSE. For a while I thought it might have been Chris Claremont, but I couldn't quite convince myself of it -- if he was going to do a story in that book it would have been the X-Men story, it seemed to me, and I couldn't figure out why he'd use a pen name. But it had that FEEL, it was very angsty and character-driven.
Well, I just found out who "Kyle Christopher" was, and it was a guy I'd never have considered as even a long-shot suspect. Martin Pasko wrote it, and I guess it was because he didn't want DC to know he was moonlighting or something.
Anybody else know anything more about this? All I have is the bare fact that it was Pasko.
I'll tell you flat out, I never thought the guy was capable of being that good. Now I'm wondering about his other work and if I missed the good stuff somehow.