Blinded by ALL the WHITE PAGES with 9.9s and SS too!!!
Daredevil 171

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Daredevil #171 Signature
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1239743002
Owner: RMI High Tech

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Blinded by ALL the WHITE PAGES with 9.9s and SS too!!!
Date Added: 6/17/2014
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

A 9.8 WP SS Copy. A Direct Edition Issue.
Signed by Klaus Janson. Nice black cover!
Currently worth 246 CGC points, the highest points for this issue. ***Should be more!

CENSUS: as of June 2016.
36 copies in 9.8. A few more copies only than last year. This is the 3rd rarest 9.8 issue in the set, tied with #176.
50 more copies in 9.6 out of 181 graded copies.
5 SS copies. 2 graded at 9.8, both known 9.8SS copies are signed by Stan Lee only.
Another great cover, but the black makes it hard to get in 9.8, as shown by the lower census numbers. It is the 3rd rarest in 9.8 in this set, and the lowest overall submission numbers of any issue in the set. The black cover just makes it tough in HG.
There were separate Direct Issues and Newstand variants for issue number 171 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. I have not seen ANY Newstand Variants in 9.8, so they are extremely rare.
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.
A 50 cent issue. Some commercial promo variants and possibly UK variants too.

VALUE:
Expect to now pay $250-350 for a basic 9.8WP Copy, easily more if excellent structure and more again if signed. And add a big premium for the “Newstand variant”.
This is another comic to look at as an investment. Great cover, great story, low numbers.
I have seen no sketches on any SS copy.

CREATOR DETAILS:
Cover Artists, Frank Miller and Klaus Janson
Writer, Frank Miller.
Penciler, Frank Miller.
Inker, Klaus Janson.
Colorist, Glynis Wein.
Letterer, Joe Rosen.
Editors, Denny O’Neil and Mark Gruenwald.

ISSUE TITLE "In the Kingpins Clutches"

STORY LINE:
Matt goes undercover and joins the Kingpin's gang so he can steal the info Fisk has collected on the underworld. Kingpin catches him in the act and beats him senseless. Grotto and Turk dump DD in the main junction of New York City's water drainage system, hoping he drowns. During the Kingpin's exchange with the men holding his wife, Vanessa is apparently killed.

NOTES and TRIVIA:
I like this cover. I bid on most 9.8WP copies hoping to snag another for a good price.

Published every 1 month now.
First published in June 1981.
 
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