COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Daredevil 160 Signature
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1287790001
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Owner:
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RMI High Tech
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
A 9.8 WP SS Copy. Signed by 3, Stan Lee, Frank Miller and Klaus Jansen.
A Newsstand Edition issue.
Currently worth 440 CGC points.
CENSUS: 125 in 9.8, 167 in 9.6 out of 656 graded copies.
39 SS copies, with 17 in 9.8 including this one, the highest grade as of April 2023.
Key Comments. Bullseye & Black Widow appearance., Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson cameo.
Art Comments. Roger McKenzie story, Frank Miller & Klaus Janson cover & art.
Published in September 1979 on a 2 month schedule.
Prior notes...
440 is the highest CGC points available for this issue, one of the two 9.8WP SS copies.
This is the first real issue, in my mind, of original Frank Miller work. The previous two issues were leftovers characters he had to work with, and this issue has his own humble beginnings in both storyline and artwork, with a new badass Bullseye added to the plot.
CENSUS: as of May 2016.
72 copies in 9.8, the highest grade. 7 more than last year.
106 more copies in 9.6 out of 349 graded copies.
7 SS copies. 2 graded at 9.8, with one signed by Klaus Janson and the other also or possibly Stan Lee. I just purchased a "newstand" beauty and it is off to be triple signed by Lee, Miller and Janson, but not back yet... I would expect a few more Frank Miller autographs on this issue in the near future.
Great cover. They call it a “Bondage” cover cause Bullseye has the Black Widow hanging from the cord of an electric hair dryer...thus you can see the effect of Frank Miller’s macabre sense of humor is starting to creep into the comic! And here we go Daredevil fans…
There were separate Direct Issues and Newstand variants for issue number 160 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.
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.
My issue currently in this set is a direct edition copy.
A 40 cent issue.
VALUE: Expect to pay $200 for a basic 9.8WP Copy, more if excellent structure ($300.00), and more again if signed ($400 and up). And a premium for the “Newstand variant”.
For those who follow SS pricing, expect to pay a rock bottom current price of $250 for a Miller SS, $100 for a Stan Lee SS and $30 for a Janson SS, plus all the fees for a CGC submission, shipping, insurance and assorted profit margins for your favorite autograph vendor. So a $200 valued issue #160 now has a value all-in of about $650.00. And that one of 37 Miller ear Daredevil comics.
NOTE*** I have found this issue also hard to get well structured, maybe the hardest of all the Miller ear Daredevils to get perfectly structured. A lot of flawed copies, cut into funny visual trapezoids, as highlighted by the top white edge line of the comic book not being parallel to the Daredevil title lettering.
I have seen no sketches on any SS copy.
CREATOR DETAILS:
Cover Artists, Frank Miller and Klaus Janson
Writer, Roger McKenzie.
Penciler, Frank Miller.
Inker, Klaus Janson.
Colorist, Glynis Wein.
Letterer, Joe Rosen.
Editor, Allen Milgrom and Mary Joe Duffy.
ISSUE TITLE “In the Hands of the Bullseye”.
STORY LINE:
Bullseye escapes the mental ward and decides to strike at Daredevil by capturing the Black Widow and using her to draw in Daredevil. Thus the cover of this issue. Meanwhile Daredevil is emotionally challenged at a funeral for Funeral for Maxwell Glenn, and eventually ends up in a bar fight and tells the bad guy Turk, a member of Slaughter’s gang (from the previous issue), to tell Bullseye he is coming.
NOTES and TRIVIA:
Also note…there is again no “Man Without Fear” subtitle, but there is a sub-title, “In the Hands of Bullseye” on the cover.
Published every 2 months.
Published September 1979.
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