Daredevil
#3
[Regular Edition]
(August 1964)
Marvel,
1964 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1964-06-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Olympia Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Owl, Overlord of Crime!
Daredevil / cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Vince Colletta
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; The Owl; Karen Page; "Sad Sam" Simms; "Ape" Horgon
- Reprints
-
in Demonen (Centerförlaget, 1966 series) #2/1966 (1966) [Ny färgläggning] -
in Diabólico (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1966 series) #3 (30 de septiembre de 1966) -
in Dæmonen (Interpresse, 1967 series) #3 (1. marts 1967) -
in Demonen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1968 series) #3/1968 ([mars] 1968) -
in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #23 (November 1969) [partial; bottom panel] which is reprinted - in Daredevil Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 ([February] 2017) [1/4 page]
-
in L'Incredibile Devil (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #3 (4 Giugno 1970) -
in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #25 (March 24, 1973) [used as the first page of the reprinted story] -
in Daredevil l'homme sans peur (Editions Héritage, 1979 series) #3/4 (1979) [Daredevil's costume is re-colored red. The original cover had Daredevil in his yellow/black costume.] - in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #17 ([September] 1991) which is reprinted
- in Devil Classic (Edizioni Star Comics, 1993 series) #1 (Febbraio 1993)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil (Marvel, 1999 series) #[1] (April 1999)
- in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (October 2002)
-
in Daredevil : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2014 series) #1964-1965 (juin 2014) - in Daredevil Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 ([February] 2017)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #52
-
in Durfal (Classics/Williams, 1976 series) #2 - in Diabolico (Novedades, 1981 series) #3
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #3 [Regular Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/20/w200/20734.jpg?-4097405744277692932)
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The Owl, Ominous Overlord of Crime!
Daredevil / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (credited)
- Inks
- Vince Colletta (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)
- Job Number
- X-733
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; GUESTS: Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; VILLAINS: The Owl [Leland Owlsley] (introduction); "Sad Sam" Simms (introduction); "Ape" Horgon (introduction)
- Synopsis
- A wealthy and ruthless financier is exposed as a criminal and begins his reign as the Owl. The Owl hires Matt Murdock to get him out of his legal troubles. The Owl gathers a gang, traps DD and Karen and begins his bid to rule the underworld. DD escapes and takes the Owl down.
- Reprints
- in Demonen (Centerförlaget, 1966 series) #2/1966 (1966)
- in Diabólico (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1966 series) #3 (30 de septiembre de 1966)
- in Dæmonen (Interpresse, 1967 series) #3 (1. marts 1967)
- in Smash! (IPC, 1966 series) #79 (5 August 1967), #80 (12 August 1967), #81 (19 August 1967)
- in Demonen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1968 series) #3/1968 ([mars] 1968)
- in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #23 (November 1969) which is reprinted
- in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #3 (5 mars 1970) [reworked]
- in L'Incredibile Devil (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #3 (4 Giugno 1970)
- in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #24 (March 17, 1973) [pages 1-12], #25 (March 24, 1973) [pages 13-22]
-
in Daredevil (Yaffa / Page, 1977 series) #1 (1977) - in Daredevil l'homme sans peur (Editions Héritage, 1979 series) #3/4 (1979)
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #17 ([September] 1991) which is reprinted
- in Devil Classic (Edizioni Star Comics, 1993 series) #1 (Febbraio 1993)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil (Marvel, 1999 series) #[1] (April 1999)
- in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (October 2002)
- in Daredevil : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2014 series) #1964-1965 (juin 2014)
- in Daredevil Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 ([February] 2017)
-
in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #5, #6, #7
-
Indexer Notes
Owl's real name is not given in this issue. Daredevil fashions a hood as part of his costume where he can keep his street clothes, but it only survives into the first half of issue #3. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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