Nothing but WHITE Pages 9.9's/9.8's and the HIGHEST CGC Graded copies.
Daredevil 187

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Daredevil #187 Signature
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1275286024
Owner: RMI High Tech

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Nothing but WHITE Pages 9.9's/9.8's and the HIGHEST CGC Graded copies.
Date Added: 8/28/2014
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

A 9.8 WP SSK Copy. A Direct Edition.
Signed with a head Sketch by Klaus Janson. The only sketch in the Miller set I know of.
Currently worth 176 CGC points, the highest points for this issue.

CENSUS: as of June 2016.
168 copies in 9.8.
135 more copies in 9.6 out of 382 graded copies.
19 SS copies. 5 graded at 9.8.
And the "The Man Without Fear" sub-title and the larger Daredevil font seemingly are here to stay. In this case, with big red letters on a solid white cover.

There were separate Direct Issues and Newstand variants for issue number 187 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 Canadian 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.
A good issue to have Klaus Janson autograph. So I did.
ALL the issues from 170 to 191 are generally available on EBay or the auction houses every month. I have seen no other sketches on any SS copy.

CREATOR DETAILS:
Cover Artist, Frank Miller.
Writers, Frank Miller.
Penciler, Klaus Janson.
Inker, Klaus Janson.
Colorist, Klaus Janson.
Letterer, Joe Rosen.
Editors, Denny O’Neil.

ISSUE TITLE "Overkill".

STORY LINE:
Daredevil seeks aid from childhood mentor Stick, when his hyper senses become too debilitating. Thus the cover...
In a fight with the Hand, the Black Widow is poisoned

NOTES and TRIVIA:
This is the second issue of Daredevil penciled and inked solely by Klaus Janson.
A new costume is given to the Black Widow. The suction cupped footings that allow her to stick to walls are also re-emphasized.
In this issue the Ninja villain Kirigi is reanimated and his body is made whole from his previous decapitation by Elektra.

Published every month now.
First published in October 1982.
 
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