COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Daredevil 163 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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1062303002
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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. A Newsstand Variant.
Signed by Stan Lee.
Currently worth 704 CGC points, the highest points for this issue.
CENSUS: 30 in 9.8, 90 in 9.6 out of 505 graded copies.
42 SS copies, 6 in 9.8, the highest grade as of April 2023.
Key Comments. Hulk appearance., Tony Stark & J. Jonah Jameson cameo., Ben Urich learns Daredevil's identity.
Art Comments. Roger McKenzie story, Frank Miller cover, Frank Miller, Joe Rubinstein &, Klaus Janson art.
.Published in March 1980 on a 2 month schedule.
Prior notes...
CENSUS: as of January 2016.
19 copies in 9.8. This hasn’t changed much in the last 2 years…
57 more copies in 9.6 out of 230 graded copies.
5 SS copies. 3 graded at 9.8, with at least two of these signed by Stan Lee and the other also or possibly by Klaus Janson.
Great cross over cover with the Incredible Hulk.
There were separate Direct Issues and Newstand variants for issue number 163 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 a 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 in this set is a rare newstand variant. Only a few in 9.8 exist.
A 40 cent issue.
VALUE:
Expect to now pay $500 for a basic 9.8WP Copy, more if excellent structure ($600.00), and more again if signed ($750 and up). And a premium for the “Newstand variant”.
I have found this issue is RARE, plain and simple, and a great investment comic. Very few have been graded in the last few years, and even less seen for sale. ***Thanks Chris!!!
The cover spine is dark and adds to the hard to get category. And the newstand issues are even rarer in high grade. And many don’t make white pages and are graded off white to white. And it is a cross over with Hulk.
If in doubt and a 9.8WP graded issue of Daredevil 163 is in front of you…buy it.
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 and Joe Rubinstein.
Colorist, Glynis Wein.
Letterer, Jim Novak.
Editor, Denny O’Neil.
ISSUE TITLE “Blind Alley”.
STORY LINE:
Hulk returns to Manhattan and Daredevil senses he is nearby. He locates the Hulk and convinces him to calm down and revert to Bruce Banner. After helping him, Banner leaves and eventually reverts back the Hulk, and Daredevil again tries to calm him, getting beaten stupid. Near death, Daredevil convinces the Hulk to stop, Hulk departs, and Daredevil is off to Bellevue for recovery.
Ben Urich has basically proved Matt Murdock is Daredevil.
NOTES and TRIVIA:
The “Man Without Fear” subtitle is back on the cover, as is another sub-title of “Beware…the Hulk!”
A Tony Stark cameo (and maybe Peter Parker too?)
Published every 2 months.
Published March 1980.
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