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Small-town comics fan hits the big time with `Daredevil'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Doug Nye
When he was a kid in Minnesota, Mark Steven Johnson was an avid reader of the "Daredevil" comic book.
A little more than two decades later, an astonished Johnson found himself directing the "Daredevil" movie.
"It was pretty surreal," Johnson said during a recent telephone conversation. "Ben Affleck _ (star of the film) was a big fan of the comic book, too. There were a lot times during production we'd just look at each other as if to say, `Can you really believe we're doing this?'"
The result of that "surreal" experience arrived on DVD July 29 in a two-disc set (Fox, 2003, $29.98) featuring a load of extras. It's the ...
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