COMICS

KEY ISSUES

Thanks to Bill Koenig and Loren Freid for their great help here. Much appreciated.

VOLUME 1
#1	First appearance and origin of DD, Foggy Nelson and Karen Page
#3	First appearance of Owl
#4	First appearance of Purple Man
#5	First Wally Wood art
#6	First appearance of Mr. Fear
#7	First appearance in red costume. Sub-Mariner appearance.
#8	First appearance of Stilt-Man
#16-17	Two-part team-up with Spider-Man (first John Romita Spider-Man) Also first appearance of Masked Marauder
#18	First appearance and origin of Gladiator (Melvin Potter)
#20	First Gene Colan art
#25	First appearance of Mike Murdock
#26	Masked Marauder revealed to be Matt and Foggy's landlord. Also return of Stilt-Man
#27	Apparent death of Masked Marauder, who is revived later in Iron Man. MM also appears in Miller's Spectacular Spider-Man story later
#37-38	Dr. Doom switches costumes with DD as part of a plot to attack the FF. Crossover with FF #73
#41	Death of Mike Murdock, events set up storyline that concludes in #158
#42	First appearance of Jester
#43	Captain America appearance, with Jack Kirby cover. DD breaks up with Karen Page for the first time.
#47	DD goes to Vietnam to entertain troops. Intro of Willie Lincoln, a blind African-American ex-cop
#48	Foggy wins election as D.A.. Karen briefly reconciles with Matt, but is put off when Matt pulls a ruse to get Foggy out of the office, since the Stilt-Man is coming to assassinate Foggy.
#51	Starr Saxon becomes first villain (of many) to discover Matt's identity.
#52	Black Panther appearance. He finds out DD's identity too.
#53	Origin re-told, with same script of #1, but with Colan's pencils.
#54	Cover price raised to 15 cents. DD fakes death of Matt Murdock.
#57	DD reveals secret identity to Karen
#62	Karen leaves NYC for her acting career in California
#67	Another Stilt-Man story and another Matt/Karen break-up.
#77	Guest appearances by Spider-Man and Sub-Mariner
#81	First appearance of Black Widow
#87	DD and Black Widow move in together - set precedent for first time comics showcasing unmarried couple living together
#92	Black Widow becomes co-star
#99	Guest appearance by Hawkeye. Crossover to Avengers #110-111
#100	DD gives interview to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner
#107	Captain Marvel appearance
#108	Foggy is shot, DD returns to NYC
#114	Man-Thing guest appearance
#125	DD and Widow break up, first appearance of Heather Glenn
#131	First appearance and origin of Bullseye
#158	First Frank Miller art, death of Death-Stalker
#168	First appearance of Elektra
#170	First appearance of Kingpin in _Daredevil_
#174	First appearance of The Hand
#176	First appearance of Stick
#181	Death of Elektra
#190	Return of Elektra
#191	End of original Miller run
#196	Wolverine guest-stars
#208	Written by Harlan Ellison
#219	Miller returns as writer for one issue with John Buscema
#220	Death of Heather Glenn
#223	Matt regains sight for a day, thanks to Beyonder
#227-233	"Born Again" by Miller/Mazzucchelli
#252	Fall of the Mutants
#254	First appearance and origin of Typhoid Mary
#297-300	Fall of the Kingpin
#319	Fall from Grace, return of Elektra, new costume
#326	Tree of Knowledge
#333-337	Fathoms of Humanity by Wright/Grindberg
#348	Foggy discovers Matt's identity
#353	Kesel/Nord begin, return of Matt Murdock
#-1	Flashback issue, return of Gene Colan
#376-379	Flying Blind by Scott Lobdell
#380	Final issue of volume 1 by Chichester/Weeks
VOLUME 2
#1	Marvel Knights imprint debuts with Smith/Quesada/Palmiotti
#5	Death of Karen Page
#9-15	David Mack's Parts of a Hole, Kingpin blinded, intro Echo
#16-19	Bendis/Mack Wake Up arc
#20-25	Playing to the Camera by Gale/Winslade/Ross
#26-31	Underboss by Bendis/Maleev
#32-37	Out by Bendis/Maleev
#38-40	Trial of the Century by Bendis/Gutierrez/Dodson
#41-45	Lowlife by Bendis/Maleev
#46-50	Hardcore by Bendis/Maleev
#51-55	Echo: Vision Quest by David Mack
#56-60	King of Hell's Kitchen by Bendis/Maleev
#61-64	The Widow by Bendis/Maleev
#65	40th Anniversary Special
#66-70	Golden Age by Bendis/Maleev
#71-75	Decalogue by Bendis/Maleev
#76-81	Murdock Papers by Bendis Maleev

Last Modified - Tuesday, 14-Oct-2008 12:30:50 PDT