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Issue Details

Issue #97
Published March 1973
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas
Notes Statement of Ownership average # of copies in preceding 12 months: 325,103.

Cover Details

Characters Daredevil; Black Widow; Dark Messiah
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Frank Giacoia
Reprinted in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #4

20 page Daredevil story "He Who Saves"

Characters FEATURE: Daredevil; GUESTS: Black Widow; Jason Sloan; Ivan Petrovich; VILLAINS: Dark Messiah [1st; Mordecai Jones (name taken from THE FLIM-FLAM MAN)]; CAMEOS: Josiah (1st); Macabee (1st); Uriah (1st); Kerwin J. Broderick (1st)
Synopsis A young street performer meets with an accident and is transformed by a mysterious figure into the super-powerful Dark Messiah; The Messiah breaks a gang of kids out of prison, leads them to Golden Gate Park and erects a force field so that no one can get in; DD gets involved and makes it through the force field but the power of the Messiah is too much and Hornhead goes down.
Genre superhero
Script Gerry Conway (Plot); Steve Gerber
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Ernie Chan [as Ernie Chua]
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #4