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Issue Details

Issue #174
Published September 1981
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 36
Editing Denny O'Neil; Ralph Macchio (Assistant)

Cover Details - "Daredevil...Elektra & Gladiator...Fighting an Army of Assassins!"

Characters Daredevil; Elektra; Gladiator
Genre Superhero
Pencils Frank Miller
Inks Klaus Janson
Letters Michael Higgins?
Reprinted in Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller (Marvel, 2000 series) #2

20 page Daredevil story "The Assassination of Matt Murdock"

Characters FEATURE: Daredevil; GUESTS: Elektra; Gladiator; Ben Urich; Foggy Nelson; Heather Glenn; Betsy Beatty; VILLAINS: Kingpin; The Hand (1st); Kirigi (1st)
Synopsis Kingpin secretly hires the Hand to take out Matt Murdock, but Elektra and Gladiator get in the way; When the Hand blows up his law office, DD loses his radar sense due to the blast.
Genre superhero
Script Frank Miller
Pencils Frank Miller (breakdowns); Klaus Janson (finished art)
Inks Klaus Janson
Colors Glynis Wein, Klaus Janson
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes Page #20 is re-worked a little and also used as page #4 for next issue with the same basic art and text.
Reprinted in Elektra Saga, The (Marvel, 1984 series) #2 (March 1984) [pgs. 1-3, 6-20 with some panels removed]; in Elektra Saga, The (Marvel, 1989 series) #[nn] [pgs. 1-3, 6-20 with some panels removed]; in Elektra Megazine (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 [pgs. 1-3, 6-20 with some panels removed]; in Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller (Marvel, 2000 series) #2