Daredevil #174 [British]

(September 1981)

The Assassination of Matt Murdock (Table of Contents: 1)

Daredevil / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Miller (credited as Miller)

Pencils

Frank Miller (credited as Miller) (breakdowns)

Inks

Klaus Janson (credited as Janson) (finished art)

Colors

Klaus Janson (credited as Janson); Glynis Oliver (credited as Wein)

Letters

Joe Rosen (credited as Rosen)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Prologue: Alive, Alphonse deChanteaux was worth a fifty thousand dollar bounty.

Feature Logo

Daredevil, the Man Without Fear!

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Hand: Genin (antagonist) (first appearance); Jonin (antagonist) (first appearance); Kirigi (antagonist) (first appearance)
Betsy Beatty; Daredevil [Matt Murdock] (featured); Flint; Gladiator [Melvin Potter] (supporting); Heather Glenn (supporting); Kingpin [Wilson Fisk] (antagonist); Maxine Lavender; Elektra Natchios (supporting); Foggy Nelson (supporting); Ben Urich

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

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, Daredevil loses his radar sense due to the blast.

Reprints

• in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #12 (Junho de 1983)
• in Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #389 (1984-01-31)
• in The Elektra Saga (Marvel, 1984 series) #2 (March 1984) [pgs. 1-3, 6-20 with panels removed, reprinted as pgs. 1-16]
which is reprinted
• in The Elektra Saga (Marvel, 1989 series) (1989)
• in Elektra Saga (Delcourt, 1990 series) #2 (février 1990)
• in Elektra Megazine (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (November 1996)
• in Marvel Méga (Panini France, 1997 series) #2 - Elektra saga tome 1 de 2 (juillet 1997)
• in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #172 (5 avril 1984) [Moins 1 page/Minus 1 page]
• in Dæmonen (Interpresse, 1986 series) #3 (1986)
• in Demonen (Semic, 1986 series) #5/1986 ([mai] 1986)
• in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #7 (Aprile 1989)
• in Obras Maestras (Planeta DeAgostini, 1991 series) #24 - Daredevil: Cazadores (Marzo 1997)
• in Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller (Graphitti Designs, 2000 series) #2 (2001)
• in Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller (Marvel, 2000 series) #2 (March 2001)
• in Daredevil : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1981 (avril 2003)
• in Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) (2007)
• in Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2008)

Indexer Notes

Page #20 is re-worked a little and used as page #4 for the next issue with the same basic art and text.

The Human Torch in Hot-Tempered Triumph! (Table of Contents: 2)

Hostess Twinkies; Human Torch / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Chic Stone ?

Inks

Chic Stone ?

Colors

?

Letters

Irv Watanabe

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Great balls of fire, those thugs are stealing all the money that the tv telethon raised...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Human Torch [Johnny Storm]

Reprints

• from [Marvel Hostess Ads] (Marvel, 1975 series) #62 (September 1981)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Devil's Advocate / letters page / 1.33 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Miller

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

Devil's Advocate

Indexer Notes

Letters from Jon Jackson MD, Sheldon A. Wiebe, Neil McLaughlin, verde, Jim Sinclair, David Motyl, Mark Harris, James Timlick, Kerry Lucarelli

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey, there! Remember last summer...

Indexer Notes

A list of names of some of the people who entered the Mighty Marvel Win-Yourself-Some-Big-Bucks Contest.