DAREDEVIL AND ELEKTRA: CANE AND SAI

I've been enjoying re-watching two old movie friends this weekend. When I say friends I mean films I saw decades ago and always liked them, namely Daredevil and Elektra. Have you seen them?

When you'd taken all you could from the X-Men and X2, with the dawn of Marvel's cinematic universe at the turn of the Millennium, Daredevil and Elektra were waiting for you to keep your leather-clad inner-hero alive and kicking.

OK, neither of them are Avengers or maybe not even A-listers but this linked pair of films really grabbed my attention way back when. 

Ben Affleck's understated and tormented Daredevil, patrolling Hell's Kitchen and being a general pain in the kneecaps for Kingpin, was just what I needed after the wild fury of Wolverine's steel claws. His playground skirmish with Elektra was, well ..... electric and the perfect cue for her own film two years later.

Elektra and me hit it off from the get go. It was her two fabulous sai, an Okinawan weapon I was fascinated by as a martial arts nut in the early Seventies. Her red garb completed the look of the ultra-lethal karate-kicking Stick-trained assassin with a heart.

Daredevil has remained a constant in the murky background of the MCU defending the Kitchen with his pals Iron Fist et al, but Elektra seems to have sadly hung up her sai unless I've missed her come-back. I for one would welcome her's and Stick's return.

Oddly I never found a single vintage Daredevil toy in all my years of car booting. OK, there's been a slew of modern figures but when I was collecting any Secret Wars 1984 figures at boot sales years ago old Fearless, below, never showed his masked face.

The first Daredevil action figure - or plastic figure - was part of the wonderful and ground-breaking range of Marx super hero mini-statues in 1966, a figure I've only ever seen in the flesh on the Olympian shelves of super dealers at Birmingham's Memorabilia.

Have you any Daredevil or Elektra collectables?