COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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What If? 8 Universal
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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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0167640002
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Owner:
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bagofleas
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
oooooh, one too many body shots.
Published: 4/78
Don Glut story
Al Kupperberg & Jim Mooney art
Gil Kane & Klaus Janson cover
Daredevil fought Electro alongside Spider-Man when Electro figured out he was blind after setting off an extremely bright flare in front of his face. Spidey didn't believe it, and asked Daredevil what color Electro's costume was, confirming the suspicion.
Electro outed the secret to the Daily Bugle, and Matt continued to fight crime as Daredevil at the protest of Karen. The Owl tried to use this known weakness against him, and almost succeeded, causing Matt to reconsider a radical experimental operation to regain his sight.
Matt and Karen travel to Lichenbad to have the operation, and encounter the tyrant monarch Duke Klaus Kruger along the way. After the operation, Daredevil is forced to save the doctor who performed it and is subjugated to a large radiation dose from shutting down a Nuclear Pile Reactor.
The Dose causes Matt to lose his heightened extra senses, but he regains his sight. Upon arriving back in the States, the Owl immediately abducts Matt and Karen to participate in his form of a courtroom trial against the Judge (Lewis) who put him away. Matt calls Daredevil to the stand and leaves to get his key witness. Daredevil defeats the Owl and saves Karen as well.
Later Matt outs his secret identity to the press and runs for District Attorney. He wins, and he and Karen get married, seemingly living a happy normal life from then on.
By Just looking at the cover, I figured there were all kinds of possibilities here. Each one of these What If issues could result in catastrophe or pure happiness or something in between.
This one ultimately has a happy ending. I want to say it's too bad it couldn't have been exactly this way for the real Matt, but then we wouldn't have had all of those awesome stories from then on, would we?
Love that black background cover, BTW!
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