| Slot: |
Daredevil 3 |
| Item: |
Daredevil 3 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0264093005
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Owner Comments
Overlord of Crime!"
The crooked financier known as the Owl is finally dragged into court on tax fraud charges. Desperate for representation, he flips through the phone book and randomly lands on Nelson & Murdock. Foggy wants nothing to do with him, but Matt insists they take the case—partly out of principle, partly because something about the Owl feels…off.
When the Owl casually skips his own hearing, Matt switches to Daredevil and scours the city for any trace of his new client. Hours of searching turn up nothing. Frustrated, he returns to the office and sends Karen home for the night.
Across town, the Owl is busy assembling his own brand of muscle: two hardened, non superhuman enforcers he nearly kills just to demonstrate his dominance—and his eerie ability to glide through the air. With his ego fully inflated, the Owl decides to make Matt Murdock the perfect patsy for whatever he’s planning next.
Later that night, as Matt prepares to leave the office in his Daredevil gear, he hears faint movement in the adjoining room. The Owl and his hired thugs are already inside. A fight erupts—tight quarters, bad odds—until Karen unexpectedly returns for her forgotten purse. The Owl’s men seize her instantly. With Karen’s life on the line, Daredevil surrenders.
Both captives are taken to the Owl’s cliffside aerie. Once there, Daredevil breaks free, gets Karen safely into a car, and sends her racing away while he confronts the Owl alone. The henchmen scatter to alert other mob bosses, hoping to impress them with Daredevil’s impending death.
The Owl springs a trapdoor beneath Daredevil, dropping him into the river below. Believing the hero finished, he flees his lair as police sirens close in. But Daredevil claws his way out of the water and intercepts the Owl’s escape boat, capsizing it and knocking the villain overboard. In the chaos, the Owl slips away into the night.
Back on shore, Daredevil changes back into Matt Murdock and calmly waits for the police to round up the remaining crooks. When Karen arrives, shaken but safe, she’s startled to find Matt already there—and the uneasy resemblance between him and the masked man who saved her lingers in her mind.
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Notes:
• In this issue, Daredevil develops a hood to store his civilian clothes in when in costume. This hood is later discarded in Daredevil #4, only one issue after its debut.
• Judge Lewis is not named in this issue. He will reappear in Daredevil #20.
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Publication Notes:
• Written with Raw Realism by: Stan Lee
• Illustrated with Daring Drama by: Joe Orlando
• Inked with Actual Artistry by: Vince Colletta
• Lettered with Perfect Precision by: S. Rosen
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I suppose I have two people to thank—and gently blame—for pulling me back into the deep, familiar waters of collecting: my twin, and the gentleman from "Lunch Money Comics," whose YouTube hunts feel like the kind of treasure seeking we all dreamed about when we were kids. Watching him flip through long boxes feels like hearing an old song you’d forgotten you loved.
This Daredevil issue is my first graded copy of him in the original costume, and the moment I held it, something in me slipped back to childhood. It felt like lifting a relic from those old afternoons—when the world was quieter, the colors were brighter, and a single comic could make the whole day feel enchanted again. The timing made it even sweeter. Just the day before, my hardheaded twin handed me my very first raw Daredevil #6 for my birthday—one of those gifts that feels like it carries a whole childhood with it. That raw copy is already off being graded, beginning its own quiet journey.
Funny how collecting sneaks back into your life. One moment you’re just watching someone else chase memories on YouTube, and the next you’re holding one of your own.
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