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Wally Wood plotted Daredevil 4-11
[4 was his first issue. 11 was his last issue, where he is only credited as inker]
J David Spurlock
15 February 2017
WALLACE WOOD PLOTTED ALL of his DAREDEVIL issues INCLUDING #11
Like his friends, Jack Kirby on Fantastic Four and Steve Ditko on Spider-Man, Wallace "Wally" Wood confirmed that he plotted his 1960s Daredevil run. Wood, Ditko & Kirby all, ultimately left Marvel largely over being unpaid for their plotting work and moved on to companies that did pay them for their writing. Though editor Stan Lee regularly received writing credit as he insisted on dialoging stories created by "Marvel Method Artists" like Kirby, Ditko & Wood; outside the regular credit boxes, Marvel did note Wood's plot work on various occasions including on the letters page of DD #6 (announcing Stan did not plot #7), #8 (discusses Wood creating Stiltman), and in the official MMMS newsletter which announced Wood would be plotting DD ongoing from then on. Finally, Wood got full writing credit on the front page of DD #10. After that, Wood was ready to move on to Tower Comics where they paid him for his writing. Though Stan made a big deal about having to write DD #11 without Wood's help, Wood — as per the classic mystery writing tradition — had already planted the clues in #10, by which to solve the 2-part mystery story in #11. So, despite Stan's castigations, Wood actually did, at least, co-plot #11 too.
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