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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published August 1964
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters Daredevil; The Owl; Karen Page
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #23 [partial]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #17; in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #1; in Incredibile Devil, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #3

22 page Daredevil story "The Owl, Ominous Overlord of Crime!"

Characters FEATURE: Daredevil; GUESTS: Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; VILLAINS: The Owl [1st; Leland Owlsley]; "Sad Sam" Simms (1st); "Ape" Horgon (1st)
Synopsis A wealthy and ruthless financier is exposed as a criminal and begins his reign as the Owl; The Owl hires Matt Murdock to get him out of his legal troubles; The Owl gathers a gang, traps DD and Karen and begins his bid to rule the underworld; DD escapes and takes the Owl down.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Owl's real name is not given in this issue; Daredevil fashions a hood as part of his costume where he can keep his street clothes, but it only survives into the first half of issue #3. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #23 (November 1969); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #17; in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #1; in Incredibile Devil, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #3