Daredevil #97 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1973

About Daredevil #97

First appearance of Mordecai Jones, the Dark Messiah. Black Widow appearance. Gil Kane cover. Gene Colan art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Dark Messiah

Pencils: Gil Kane

Inks: Frank Giacoia

Letters: Morrie Kuramoto

STORY DETAILS

(1 Stories)

Title: He Who Saves

Characters: Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Jason Sloan; Ivan Petrovich; Dark Messiah [Mordecai Jones] (villain, first appearance, name taken from "The Flim-Flam Man"); Josiah (cameo, first appearance); Macabee (cameo, first appearance); Uriah (cameo, first appearance); Kerwin J. Broderick (cameo, first appearance)

Synopsis: A young street performer meets with an accident and is transformed by a mysterious figure into the super-powerful Dark Messiah. The Messiah breaks a gang of kids out of prison, leads them to Golden Gate Park, and erects a force field so that no one can get in. Daredevil gets involved and makes it through the force field but the power of the Messiah is too much and Daredevil goes down.

Pages: 20.000

Script: Gerry Conway (plot); Steve Gerber

Pencils: Gene Colan

Inks: Ernie Chan [as Ernie Chua]

Letters: John Costanza

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	0	4	2	2	7	6	11	10	14	38	51	24	0	0	176
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	7
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	0	4	2	3	8	7	12	10	16	39	52	24	0	0	184

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