Daredevil #105
(November 1973)

Marvel, 1964 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1973-07-31
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A.
Editing
Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #99.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Black Widow; Daredevil / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Romita
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino

Genre
superhero
Characters
Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Moondragon; Angar [David Angar]; Ramrod; Dark Messiah [Mordecai Jones]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Romita cover penciler credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo. George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits the cover to Don Heck and Mike Esposito.

Menace from the Moons of Saturn! (Table of Contents: 1)

Daredevil / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Gerber (credited)
Pencils
Don Heck (credited) (pages 1-16, third tier of 26, 27-32); Jim Starlin (credited) (pages 17-26 except bottom tier of 26)
Inks
Don Perlin (credited)
Colors
Janice Cohen (credited)
Letters
June Braverman (credited)

Job Number
1631-Z
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Witness: a scene of unmitigated terror!
Feature Logo
Daredevil, the Man Without Fear!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Black Widow [Natalia Romanoff]; Paul Carson; Lucretia Jones; Ashley Sanders; Moondragon (introduction, origin); Kraven [Sergei Kravinoff]; Kerwin J. Broderick; Terrible Trio [Angar [David Angar]; Ramrod; Dark Messiah [Mordecai Jones]]; Terrex (introduction); Charles; Janis; Titans [Emlot; Kazantra; Mentor [Alars]; Starfox [Eros]; Thanos] (flashback); Sub Mariner [Namor McKenzie] (flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark] (flashback)
Synopsis
Kraven throws Daredevil off of a cliff to his death but the he disappears before he strikes bottom. Daredevil finds himself in an elaborate underwater domain inhabited by Moondragon. She accuses him of being a thrall of Thanos and then tells him her origin to let him know what this means. Touching Daredevil's mind, Moondragon discovers that she has been lied to and that Daredevil is one of the good guys. The real villain appears as none other than Kerwin J. Broderick, Matt's law partner and he gloats as he unleashes Terrex on the world.
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Keywords
KSG-TV; Saturn (planet); Shao-Lom Monastery (destroyed); Thanos War; Titan (moon); Video-Wagon

Indexer Notes

Thanos War tie-in; The origin of Moondragon, pages 17-26, is the year old Jim Starlin material intended for a 1972 Iron Man issue, according to Captain Marvel #29 letters page.
Prior to this issue, Moondragon was called Madam MacEvil.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Black Widow; Daredevil
  2. 1. Menace from the Moons of Saturn!
    Daredevil
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Daniel Block
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Merlin Haas
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Darrel McCann
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore