Daredevil
Despite being one of Marvel ’s most stalwart heroes , Daredeviltends to avoid the cosmic adventures that frequently disrupt the life of the Avengers . And yet on the occasion where he was promise upon to save the total planet , Matt Murdock come through … or at least he would have done , if a lilliputian graphics error had n’t turned his cosmic triumph into a jest .
InGiant - Size Defenders # 3- from Steve Gerber , Jim Starlin , and Len Wein - the team are sweep up in a ready-made but pulse - pounding story , as theElder of the Universe cognise as the Grandmaster(who MCU fans will know asThor : Ragnarok ’s Jeff Goldblum ) play off them against a team of aliens with Earth as the prize . Recruited by blowhard baddie - turned - hero Nighthawk , Daredevil becomes the sixth fellow member of the Grandmaster ’s team as he competes against the forward-looking calculator known as the Prime Mover and its own radical of minion . In a series of ' kill or be killed ' battles , the Defenders fight to keep the Prime Mover from claiming Earth and are ultimately winning . Sadly , their performance is so impressive , the Grandmaster decides to claim Earth himself so he can engender superhumans to use in future games .
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While the rest of the team charge the godlike being , Daredevil hangs back . Matt Murdock does n’t have the top executive to take on the Grandmaster , but he does know the villain ca n’t resist plot of fortune . snag a coin - like disc from the now destroyed Prime Mover , Matt marks one side , challenge the Grandmaster to a childlike coin flip . The"cosmic gambling addict"can’t resist , and chooses tails ( the side of the coin Daredevilhasn’tmarked with a crown of thorns . ) Using hisadvanced sensation of touch , Daredeviltosses the coin to land on heads , acquire the day . At least , that ’s what the story claims , but any reader pay attention will discover that the case - up side of the coin is lacking the cross Matt carved on ' heads , ' meaning the Grandmaster was correct and should have taken possession of the major planet then and there .
It ’s unclear why the coin lacks the ' X ' that should have seem as , while it ’s a small detail , the markdoesappear like a shot before in art of the coin spinning . While fans observe the error when the comic was publish in 1974,Stan Lee by and by pointed it outinThe prescribed Marvel No - Prize Book- a compendium of comic errors from throughout Marvel history . What makes the error particularly inauspicious is that Matt Murdock is blind , summate the superfluous layer of irony that Daredevil really would have been ineffective to accurately call how the coin had set ashore by flock .
gratefully , the Grandmaster abides by the result , even as the Defenders are left with the impression thatDaredevil is near - unforgivably reckless , since his advanced senses are still a enigma , and the wager seems genuine from their view . Given its classical use of the Grandmaster as a cosmic tournament organizer , Giant - Size defender # 3remains one of Marvel ’s most darling individual - issue comics , with the minuscule art mistake only impart it a more prominent shoes in readers ' hearts . But while Stan Lee and comic reader may see the funny side , Daredevilwould likely find it less amusing that the one time he was call on to save the entire satellite from a cosmic despot , he did so by losing a coin toss and by chance claiming a win .
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