Marvel Legends Two-Packs

I ended up liking Gladiator so I kept him, already had Fang and just never sold him. I'm fine if they do maybe 5-7 Imperial Guard members, but I definitely don't need them all.

Deathbird was the real draw for me. But thankfully I don't need a classic version and this was a good enough one-and-done for my tastes.
 
JakeEkiss said:
Well shit I'm glad I grabbed them then. I was reticent because I don't have a classic Matt for them to tangle with, but I'm sure a Maximum is coming sooner or later (hopefully a version based on Waid's run). If nothing else I'll just break down and hunt down the DD armor costume on ebay (I know I'm the only person who likes that suit, but I do).
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I have that armored DD fighting Kingpin on my work desk as I type this in honor of Born Again starting tonight! I sold off my old red DD once I preordered the new Secret Wars one.
 
Sgt. Stinky said:
I have that armored DD fighting Kingpin on my work desk as I type this in honor of Born Again starting tonight! I sold off my old red DD once I preordered the new Secret Wars one.
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I really wish I'd picked up armored DD when he was cheap. He's going to run me at least $60 if I try to pick him up on the secondary, and I've seen some folks trying to sell him for $200+ which is just bananas to me.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
I wouldn't pay that for a Marvel Legend. There are very few action figures I'd spend that kind of money on.
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It is INSANE to me that he's going for that much. If he were a BAF, or even a huge fan favorite that was immediately sold out, sure. Make him $60 or whatever. ML trend towards MSRP+60-80% for Ebay, putting normal figures in the $40 ish range. I suppose maybe that's going up with the basic figure prices and inflation. But yeah, that's getting to import figure pricing and I barely buy those. Over $100 for a basic ML, unless they were an exclusive to a Haslab (even then, honestly), is just ridiculous.
 
JakeEkiss said:
I really wish I'd picked up armored DD when he was cheap. He's going to run me at least $60 if I try to pick him up on the secondary, and I've seen some folks trying to sell him for $200+ which is just bananas to me.
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Jesus Christ. Glad I have that DD. But I’m not really all that surprised since that suit is getting a lot of love in the comics again after so manny decades. (about fucking time too) And while I’m a sucker for the classic red costume, I have to admit that the armored costume makes the most sense for a character like Daredevil since he’s a melee fighter who tends to fight in close quarters against armed assassins, ninjas, hired guns and crime bosses like the Kingpin. He seems to always take more hits than he should in some fights (hell he almost died at the end of the Charles Soule run)


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Stoopid_Sandwich said:
Jesus Christ. Glad I have that DD. But I’m not really all that surprised since that suit is getting a lot of love in the comics again after so manny decades. (about fucking time too) And while I’m a sucker for the classic red costume, I have to admit that the armored costume makes the most sense for a character like Daredevil since he’s a melee fighter who tends to fight in close quarters against armed assassins, ninjas, hired guns and crime bosses like the Kingpin. He seems to always take more hits than he should in some fights (hell he almost died at the end of the Charles Soule run)


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As a question strictly about the comics featuring that suit, is it actually shown as bulletproof like a John Wick thing or more presented like the fabric on the TV DD suit where the cloth is more cut repellent and the hard armor is maybe tougher?
 
JakeEkiss said:
As a question strictly about the comics featuring that suit, is it actually shown as bulletproof like a John Wick thing or more presented like the fabric on the TV DD suit where the cloth is more cut repellent and the hard armor is maybe tougher?
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I haven’t read the latest run but in the classic books it was more shown to be a hardened fabric so ballistics were shown to merely be impeded but not full on stopped. It’s not like this armor is made from vibranium or anything


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Wow, I have that Daredevil (that's one of my ML niches, I guess. Underrated era of the comic, honestly). Although DD in armor is always a little weird to me, because his real superpower is Catholic survivor's guilt, something I'm Italian enough to understand. I always think Daredevil makes sense maybe being a little negligent about protecting himself because of that.

Daredevil and Count Vertigo is the cross-publisher bromance I didn't realize I needed until now.
 
Holy crap, armored DD is really hard to find now? Must be the 90s nostalgia thing that this line has such a strong vibe of. It's funny, I always have 3-4 Daredevils out on shelves in my office at any given time, he's my boy, but right now the ones not on display are the outdated red /red yellow bucks and the armored one, rotated him into safe storage months ago to put out the animated version with the shadows painted on.

(Side note on the sorta bullet proof fabric thing - of all the wackiness and fun of John Wick, using his jacket like a shield was the one thing that took me out. I kept thinking bullet proof or not, I don't get the physics of a floppy drape of fabric being enough to stop a bullet from hitting him in the face.)

secondwhiteline said:
Wow, I have that Daredevil (that's one of my ML niches, I guess. Underrated era of the comic, honestly). Although DD in armor is always a little weird to me, because his real superpower is Catholic survivor's guilt, something I'm Italian enough to understand. I always think Daredevil makes sense maybe being a little negligent about protecting himself because of that.
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This always made sense to me, yeah. He's self-destructive from all that Catholic guilt. (I always joke that being a self-loathing, visually-impaired ex-boxer escaped Irish Catholic named Matt myself Daredevil just makes perfect sense to me.)
 
secondwhiteline said:
Wow, I have that Daredevil (that's one of my ML niches, I guess. Underrated era of the comic, honestly). Although DD in armor is always a little weird to me, because his real superpower is Catholic survivor's guilt, something I'm Italian enough to understand. I always think Daredevil makes sense maybe being a little negligent about protecting himself because of that.

Daredevil and Count Vertigo is the cross-publisher bromance I didn't realize I needed until now.
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This sentiment always bugged me because Matt Murdock is a lapsed catholic. He never fretted over religion unless his life was falling apart. So he only sought out solice in times of deep repentance


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Stoopid_Sandwich said:
This sentiment always bugged me because Matt Murdock is a lapsed catholic. He never fretted over religion unless his life was falling apart. So he only sought out solice in times of deep repentance
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...alright, now find me the Daredevil issues where Matt's life is not falling apart. Matt's always in deep repentance!

AceofKnaves said:
Matt’s Catholicism reminds me of the Catholicism of 90% of the guys I went to Catholic high school with in the 90s.

They’d rankle at “lapsed”, but I think I’d call them “conditional Catholics”.
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Hah! Accurate. I didn't go to a Catholic school but I've known a lot of people who did. An old friend of mine likes referring to himself as a "lukewarm Catholic" and I always liked that.
 
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