COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Daredevil 173
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Grade:
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9.9
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1176247001
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Owner:
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RMI High Tech
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
A 9.9 NINE.NINE WP Copy. The only one!
I also have a 9.8 WP SS Copy. A Direct Edition Issue.
Signed by Klaus Janson at the London Convention.
Currently worth 246 CGC points.
CENSUS: 1 in 9.9, 170 in 9.8, 137 in 9.6 out of 475 graded copies.
26 SS copies, with 12 in 9.8, the highest SS grade as of September 2024.
prior notes...
CENSUS: 1 in 9.9, this one, 160 at 9.8, 127 in 9.6 out of 436 graded copies.
18 SS copies, 11 in 9.8, I have on, the highest SS grade as of APril 2023.
Key Comments. Gladiator appearance.
Art Comments. Frank Miller story, Frank Miller & Klaus Janson cover & art.
Published in August 1981, on a 1 month schedule.
Prior notes...
There is a solo copy at 9.9, worth 280 points, the highest points for this issue..
CENSUS: as of June 2016.
1 copy at 9.9. Was sold to Bleu Hawaii for $1750 in 2013 and in his CGC set. I lost...
104 copies in 9.8. A few more copies only than last year, about 4 new copies per year.
76 more copies in 9.6 out of 254 graded copies.
3 SS copies. 1 graded at 9.8, mine, signed by Klaus Janson.
Another nice cover. Not rare in 9.8, but not easy to get either.
There were separate Direct Issues and Newstand variants for issue number 173 and this pattern follows through the entire Daredevil Miller era run. I have been told the numbers of direct edition vs. newstand versions ranged proportionally 60-40 to 70-30 for each type, depending on the issue.
The newstand variants are much rarer in high grade, as they lived their life on a heavily fondled newstand, not in a direct edition mailer. This ratio also varies, with approximately one out of five (some issues one out of 20!) issues being graded 9.8 as the rarer Newstand Variant. I don't think I have not seen ANY Newstand Variants in 9.8, but a few must be out there.
Newstand variants have the price in a square box next to the issue number at the top of the letter box, the direct editions have the price and issue number in a diamond shape within the letter box.
A 50 cent issue. Probably some UK variants too.
VALUE:
The interesting thing was the 9.9 comic sold for more than the "Buy it Now Price" on Ebay. We should have known and flipped a coin...Asking was like $1699.99. Sold for $1750ish...
Expect to now pay $125-150 for a basic 9.8WP Copy, easily more if excellent structure and more again if signed. And add a premium for the “Newstand variant”.
This is another nice comic to look at as an investment or for a SS attempt. The cover is bright white and clean, some day maybe another 9.9 will drop in.
I have seen no sketches on any SS copy.
CREATOR DETAILS:
Cover Artists, Frank Miller and Klaus Janson.
Writer, Frank Miller.
Penciler, Frank Miller.
Inker, Klaus Janson.
Colorist, Glynis Wein.
Letterer, Joe Rosen.
Editor, Denny O’Neil.
ISSUE TITLE "Lady Killer"
STORY LINE:
A lady killer is roaming the streets and he looks exactly like Melvin Potter. Daredevil tracks down the man responsible for crippling Becky and clears the Gladiator. Also internal in the story is the comment that DD has a new Billy Club, damaged in the last story.
NOTES and TRIVIA:
This is also a busy cover and I like it, and love the yellow label to match!
Published every month now.
First published in August 1981.
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