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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published July 1966
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters Daredevil vs. Gladiator
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita
Inks Frank Giacoia
Reprinted in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002)

20 page Daredevil story "There Shall Come a Gladiator"

Characters FEATURE: Daredevil; GUESTS: Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; VILLAIN: The Gladiator [1st; Melvin Potter]; CAMEOS: Captain America; Thor; Dr. Strange; Dr. Doom; Iron Man (all wax figures)
Synopsis A burly costume store owner decides it is really the clothes that make the man and begins his career as the Gladiator; Foggy gets a Daredevil costume from Melvin who talks the tubby lawyer into setting up a staged super fight to impress Karen; Thinking his fight with Foggy will draw out the real DD, Gladiator goes after him for real and Matt has to take a hand in rescuing his friend; In the night and the fog, everyone assumes it is Foggy as Daredevil that beat the Gladiator back.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee; Denny O'Neil
Pencils John Romita
Inks Frank Giacoia
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002)