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Issue: Daredevil #171
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Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Denny O'Neil (Editor); Mark Gruenwald (Assistant Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)
Disclose Notes: Daredevil becomes a monthly book with this issue.

The copyright registration reports that the publication date for the issue was February 3, 1981. However, this is most likely the date the direct-sale variant first went on sale. The newsstand edition generally went on sale two to four weeks after the direct-sale variant, which was the edition that was sold through most comics stores.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S. (#1-81), standard Modern Age U.S. (#82-380, #-1)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #81)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
One Minute From Now...DD Will Wish He'd Stayed In Hiding!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Frank Miller
Klaus Janson
?
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Daredevil
Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Kingpin
Reprinting
FlagDaredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller #2 [1st Printing] published March 2001
FlagDaredevil #6 published ?
FlagDaredevil No. 171 [Marvel Legends Reprint] #[nn] published November 2005
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
In the Kingpin's Clutches

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Miller
Frank Miller
Klaus Janson
Glynis Wein
Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
superhero
Daredevil
Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Vanessa Fisk; Heather Glenn; Foggy Nelson; Becky Blake; Kingpin (villain); Bullseye (villain); Turk (villain); Grotto (villain); Lynch (villain)
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.
Reprinting
FlagDaredevil Gangwar #[nn] published March 1992
FlagDaredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller #2 [1st Printing] published March 2001
FlagFantastici Quattro #4 published January 1989
as Nella Stretta di Kingpin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagDaredevil No. 171 [Marvel Legends Reprint] #[nn] published November 2005
as In the Kingpin's Clutches [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
22
This issue marks the first actual meeting between Daredevil and The Kingpin.
Iron Man in "The Charge of the Rhinos!"

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
John Romita ?
Mike Esposito ?
?
Irving Watanabe
Subject Matter
superhero
Iron Man; Hostess
Iron Man [Tony Stark]
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Miller
typeset
Subject Matter
Let's Level with Daredevil
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Letters from John Zuber Jr., Kevin E. Patterson, T. M. Maple, Mike Lansley, Mike Stafford

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