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Issue: Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller #2
Publication Date: March 2001
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: 03/2001
Volume: 2
Pages: 364
ISBN: 0785107711
UPC/EAN: 978078510771252495
Price: $37.95 CAD
$24.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 38 (15 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Collects Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #168-182.
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; glossy interior
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected editions
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Inside front cover. Includes the barcode of the volume.
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Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller Volume 2

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Introduction: Diana Schutz

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Elecktra Once He Loved Her...Now She Is His Most Deadly Enemy!

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Elektra

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Dr. Martin (various colorists, original colors)
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Brutus (first appearance, dog); Bilge (first appearance); Demetrios Natchios (first appearance, death, flashback); Athos (first appearance, flashback); Alarich Wallenquist (first appearance); Mickey (first apperance); Charles (first appearance)
Matt is after an international criminal being protected by Eric Slaughter when he runs across his college sweetheart turned bounty hunter, called Elektra.
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First issue with script by Frank Miller.
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His Name is Bullseye... and He'll Keep Killing'em till They'are all Dead!

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Devils

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Tom Snyder [called Tom Snyde] (first appearance); Bill (first appearance, death); Dr. Gloss (first appearance); Delany
Bullseye has a tumor in his brain that makes him see every day people as Daredevil, and he starts to kill them all.
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Page 1 references events in the Daredevil/Punisher story that was pushed back for Code problems; later will be published in Daredevil #183.
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The Kingpin Must Die!

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The Kingpin Must Die

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Lynch (first appearance); Mr. Harrison (first appearance); Jocko (first appearance); Hymie (first appearance); Bruno (first appearance, death); Louie the String (first appearance, death); Marty
Kingpin, retired in Japan, sends his wife to New York to hire Nelson and Murdock so he can turn states evidence against the East Coast crime bosses. Vanessa is captured by the mob so they can lure Kingpin back to New York so they can kill him. Daredevil gets in the way and has a confrontation with Bullseye.
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Part 1 of 3 of the Gang War storyline. First time Kingpin appear in Daredevil series.
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One Minute From Now...DD Will Wish He'd Stayed In Hiding!

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In the Kingpin's Clutches

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Marty; Quinn (first appearance); Lynch; Lou (first appearance); Josie; Hymie; Duke (first appearance)
Matt goes undercover and joins the Kingpin's gang so he can steal the info Fisk has collected on the underworld. Kingpin catches him in the act and beats him senseless. During the Kingpin's exchange with the men holding his wife, Vanessa is apparently killed.
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Part 2 of 3 of the Gang War storyline. This issue marks the first actual meeting between DD and The Kingpin.
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The Kingpin...The Entire New York Mob...And Now Bullseye--

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Gang War!

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Josie; Lynch (also in flashback, death); Lou; Henry (first appearance); Mickey; Joseph "Wall-Eyed" Pike; Willy (first appearance); Joaine (first appearance); Shiv (first appearance)
Thinking his wife is dead, Kingpin takes control of the mob and hires Bullseye as his assassin. DD comes calling and takes Bullseye down, but leaves the Kingpin in power to rebuild his organization.
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Part 3 of 3 of the Gang War storyline.
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Daredevil...Goes Berserk--

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Lady Killer

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Jimmy (first appearance); Jeff (first appearance); Delany; Betsy Beatty; Michael Reese (first appearance); Bill (first appearance); Sly (first appearance); Floyd (first appearance); Earl (first appearance)
A lady killer is roaming the streets and he looks exactly like Melvin Potter. DD tracks down the man responsible for crippling Becky and clears the Gladiator.
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Daredevil...Elektra & Gladiator...Fighting an Army of Assassins!

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The Assassination of Matt Murdock

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Alphonse de Chanteaux (first appearance, death); The Hand [Genin; Jonin; Kirigi] (first appearance of all); Betsy Beatty
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.
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The End?

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Gantlet

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DD is without his radar sense and teamed-up with Elektra against the Hand and their master assassin, Kirigi. While Matt is off fighting ninja, Foggy is defending the Gladiator in court.
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Page #4 is a slightly modified replica of page #20 from last issue with basically the same art and text.
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Hunters

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DD and Elektra hunt down Matt's old teacher Stick. Turk steals the Mauler uniform to try and take down DD. Elektra has a final confrontation with Kirigi.
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Daredevil...In His Strangest Adventure!

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Where Angels Fear To Tread

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Randolph Cherryh (villain, first appearance); The Hand (cameo)
Stick helps his old pupil face his demons and regain his radar sense. The Bugle publishes an expose on Kingpin's candidate for Mayor of New York. Elektra is brought to Kingpin's attention.
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Daredevil Meets Power Man & Iron Fist!

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Paper Chase

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Foggy hires Power Man and Iron Fist to help protect the stooge who is going to help Nelson and Murdock link Mayoral candidate Cherryh to the Kingpin. Kingpin talks to Elektra about employment opportunities.
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Part 1 of 2. Story is continued in Power Man and Iron Fist (Marvel, 1978 series) #77, not include in this collection.
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...Somebody Had to Win!

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Spiked!

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Ben is warned off the Kingpin/Cherryh story by Elektra and Cherryh himself. When Ben and DD continue to dig, Elektra shows up and beats DD, right before she throws a sai through Urich.
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The Damned

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Following the lead on a photo Ben took, DD hunts for the Kingpin's missing wife in the sewers. Cherryh wins the mayoral election, but in exchange for his wife's return, Kingpin makes him concede. Kingpin orders Elektra to kill Foggy in retaliation.
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Bullseye vs. Elektra. One Wins. One Dies.

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Last Hand

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Bullseye breaks out of prison. Elektra hunts down Foggy and is about to kill him until she recognizes him as Matt's buddy from college. Bullseye fights Elektra and kills her with her own sai. DD goes after Bullseye and ends up dropping him from a great height, breaking every bone in his body.
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"For In That Sleep of Death What Dreams May Come..."

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Title is a quote from Hamlet's soliloquy "To be, or not to be."
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She's Alive

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Severely distraught with grief, Matt begins to believe that Elektra is really alive and proceeds to dig her up. The Punisher escapes from prison.
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Inside back cover.
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One, a Hero Fighting for Right.
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Back cover. Includes a detail from the first panel of page 17 from Daredevil #179.

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