DAREDEVIL #179 (1982)

The cover seems to promise the death of Daredevil.

The content suggests the death of reporter Ben Urich, in an extraordinary page-long scene…

DAREDEVIL #179


Of course, he’s not dead. Neither of them are.

Miller would do this from time to time–switch the point of view, and tell a story from the reference point of a smaller character. His best version of this narrative style is the “Guts” story coming in Daredevil #185.

This is a chapter in Elektra story that is one of the best Frank Miller stories of all time and the second best Daredevil story of all time (full list here).

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