Super-Team Family #2614: Deathstroke vs. Daredevil!

Despite occupying competing fictional realities, DC Comic's Deathstroke and Marvel Comic's Daredevil seem like they would mesh together well in a tradition super-hero/super-villain relationship. So much so that the were literally combined in Amalgam Comics' Assassins (1996) in the form of Dare the Terminator. Ross Pearsall from Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues blog agrees with this notion as one of his recent homages cover pits the "world's greatest assassin" against the "man without fear" with the fate of Jericho in the balance in Super-Team Family #2614, "The Trial of Joseph Wilson." 

This, of course, is a "rematch" from Super-Team Family #2377 and features art from superstar pencilers, Deathstroke's legendary co-creator, George Pérez and Klause Janson of Daredevil (1964) and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) fame. If you like the work that Pearsall is doing on Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues, please consider donating to his Patreon by clicking on this link to help make it possible for this fun labor of love to continue.

Be sure to check out my original post on the Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues blog by clicking here.

Deathstroke and Friends (?) Micro-Heroes: Completely Miscellaneous Edition

Now for the fifth round of Micro-Heroes related to Deathstroke, but this time it's a hodgepodge of random images for which I had no other thematic use. And still, I don't know who made these.

Deathstroke with two eyes, Deathstroke from the first "blue period"

Pirate Deathstroke & Tyrant Aquaman from Flashpoint: Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager (2011)

President Slade Wilson & Rose Wilson from the Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010) film

High-Res Pre and Post Flashpoint, Ikon Suit Deathstroke from DC Rebirth

Arkham Origins Deathstroke, Deathstroke from Justice League (2017) film

Marvel Comics' crappy Death-Stroke, DC Comics' crappy Dead...

 Old School Nightwing, Old School Jericho, Old School Terra

Rose Wilson in civilian attire

Adeline Kane, Ravager (Grant Wilson), Black Lantern Grant Wilson

Ravager (Bill Walsh), Ravager (Wade DeFarge)

Dare the Terminator (Slade Murdock) & Catsai (Elektra Kyle) from Amalgam Comics' Assassins (1996)

SHADES OF SLADE: Amalgam Comics' Dare The Terminator

Slade Murdock: Dare the Terminator

As the DC and Marvel Universes merged during 1996 inter-company crossover, forming the Amalgam Comics universe, a number of characters from each fictional universe also merged into completely new people. A funny thing happened though when DC's Slade Wilson (AKA Deathstroke the Terminator) and Marvel's Matt Murdock (AKA Daredevil) merged as the two he's somehow became a she. Enter Slade Murdock: Dare the Terminator. As a courtesy for the remainder of this post, I will combine the original character names with a plus sign in an effort to clearly describe the Amalgam character and their constituent identities with the DC character listed first.

As depicted in the DC Comics-published Assassins (1996) #1, Dare the Terminator (Deathstroke + Daredevil) was former big time New Gotham City power attorney, Slade Murdock, who walked away from practicing law when she no longer had faith that the law could truly provide justice. Having been trained by her father to fight, Slade became a successful mercenary despite the fact that she was both blind and had lost an eye to a bullet from the assassin Deadeye (Deadshot + Bullseye). Slade earned the name Dare because of her reputation for accepting dares posed to her regardless of how outrageous they were. Knowing this about Slade, New Gotham City mayor Enigma Fisk, AKA the criminal mastermind the Big Question (the Riddler + the Kingpin), had her abducted so that he could have prosthetic devil horns permanently affixed to her head to make her look like a literal "daredevil."

Wanting her eliminated, the mercenary Tombstone the Ravager (the Ravager + Tombstone), hired the assassin Catsai (Catwoman + Elektra) to take out Dare. After an initial confrontation between the two, Dare and Catsai joined forces to kill Tombstone instead. The two assassins then formed what would become a close friendship with one another. Evntually the pair took a contract from a mystery client to kill Mayor Fisk. En route to the Big Question's tower office, Dare and Catsai manage to fatally dispatch both Deadeye and Lethal (the Cheetah + Kraven the Hunter) as well as lay out Wired (Manhunter + Cable) after a wicked brawl. In the final showdown, even though Dare lost her remaining eye, her horns, and apparently her life to the Big Question, Catsai did manage to land the death stroke (See what I did there?) on him, to put him down for good. Luckily for Dare, Dr. Strangefate (Dr. Fate + Dr. Strange) would later bring her back to life. Little else is known about Dare other than she had two daughters; Jericha (just mentioned and not actually appearing in any book) and Terra-X (Terra + Terrax the Tamer).