Daredevil 1964 #170 Direct ed. - 8.5 - $39.00
- First app: Kingpin in Daredevil's title
- Key event: Kingpin's name revealed to be Wilson Fisk
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.
The copyright registration for the issue reports a publication date of January 6, 1981. However, this date most likely reflects when the direct-sale variant went on sale. The newsstand edition generally went on sale two to four weeks after the direct-sale variant, which was the edition sold through comics stores. Mark Gruenwald credit on letters page.
- - Letters from verde, Valeria Beasely, Phil Latter, Sheldon A. Wiebe, Marty Powell
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