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Issue Details

Issue #81
Published November 1971
Cover Price 0.25
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Death is a Black Widow!"

Characters Daredevil; Black Widow
Genre Superhero;
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Frank Giacoia
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #4

19 page Daredevil story "And Death Is a Woman Called Widow"

Characters FEATURE: Daredevil; GUESTS: Black Widow (becomes DD's partner); Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; VILLAINS: Owl; Mr. Kline [MK-9; The Assassin]
Synopsis Black Widow saves DD from drowning and then the two of them take down the Owl; Mr. Kline is revealed to be the robot MK-9 who refers to himself by the code name "Assassin."
Genre superhero
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Jack Abel
Letters John Costanza
Notes Part 4 of Mr. Kline story in DD
Reprinted in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #4

1 page Black Widow illustration "The Merry Marvel Gallery"

Characters Black Widow
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Reprinted in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #4

12 page Human Torch; The Thing story "The Sinister Space Trap!"

Characters Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Mr. Pearson (N.A.S.A.); Professor Jack; Doris Evans
Synopsis Sometime after the FF visit the Skrull home world, Mr. Pearson of NASA pays a visit to tell them of a security risk, Professor Jack. Doris gets upset after Johnny stands her up for the 113th time. Posing as "Doug Brown", Johnny acts as Jack's assistant, in order to keep an eye on him. Good thing, too, as sabotaging the space program is on his agenda.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Bob Powell (plot); Larry Ivie (dialogue)
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #132 (May 1965)