COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Daredevil 185 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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1365957012
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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 Direct Edition.
Signed by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson.
Currently worth 176 CGC points.
The highest points are 176 from the two 9.8 SS copies, the highest points for this issue.
CENSUS: as of November 2016.
113 copies in 9.8. (Lost 1 in 9.8, probably from SS).
Not a popular cover. But, I am surprised a 9.9 hasn't dropped in.
133 more copies in 9.6 out of 348 graded copies.
11 SS copies. 2 graded at 9.8.
And the "The Man Without Fear" sub-title and the larger Daredevil font seemingly are here to stay, although breaking apart in blue artsy cover. I also see a little Gil Kane in the cover...
There were separate Direct Issues and Newstand variants for issue number 185 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 are hard to get, but not impossible.
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.
Returns to a normal size comic with a new price of 60 cents. Probably some UK variants too.
VALUE:
Expect to pay $50-100 for a basic 9.8WP Copy, easily more if excellent structure and more again if signed. And add a premium for the “Newstand Variant”, generally sold for around $200 now. The Newstands seem rare.
ALL the issues from 170 to 191 are generally available on EBay or the auction houses every month. I have seen no sketches on any SS copy, but expect one sooner or later.
CREATOR DETAILS:
Cover Artists, Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, George Roussos.
Writers, Frank Miller.
Penciler, Frank Miller.
Inker, Klaus Janson.
Colorist, Klaus Janson.
Letterer, Joe Rosen.
Editors, Denny O’Neil and Ralph Macchio.
ISSUE TITLE "Guts!".
STORY LINE:
Foggy begins to investigate why Heather's company is making bombs and this causes him to run up against both Eric Slaughter and the Kingpin. Daredevil is caught in an explosion that messes up his radar sense.
NOTES and TRIVIA:
This is the first issue of Daredevil penciled and inked solely by Klaus Janson.
Cover art by Miller, Janson and Roussos per notes on original art.
Published every month now.
First published in August 1982.
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