First Appearance: Lynch

Villain: Kingpin, Bullseye, Lynch

Featured Thugs: Turk, Grotto, Bruno, Hymie, Jocko

Guest Appearance: Vanessa, Lt. Nick Manolis, Foggy Nelson

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Vanessa flies to New York to meet with Matt and Foggy. After her bodyguards crudely make sure the office is clear, they meet. She offers them $200 thousand dollars retainer for legal services to help represent Fisk in his negotiations. Suddenly, gun fire erupts through the window of the office. Matt clears Vanessa and then races off as Daredevil. He gains a nearby rooftop where he recognizes an old con, Bruno, playing sniper. He's about to flush the area below with a flame-thrower, and winds up accidentally killing himself by falling to the ground before Daredevil can get any information out of him. When Murdock finally gets back to his office, he finds Nick Manolis interrogating Foggy and is told that Vanessa has been kidnaped.

While he is being questioned by Manolis, Bullseye is released from the hospital and is a free man. He heads directly to the employ of gang lords who want to see the Kingpin dead. Bullseye tells them he will do it for ten-million dollars. Daredevil tracks him down to this location and tells him not to reenter a life of crime, especially after he saved his life when he didn't have to. Bullseye launches a fierce, all-out attack on Daredevil, catching him off balance and pushing him out the window of the skyscraper. DD latches onto the building with his billy club cable, but Bullseye snaps it in two. He breaks his fall slightly by grabbing onto a flag, but it rips from the pole. He uses the flag to snag onto a gargoyle, but his weight breaks the gargoyle head off and he continues his plummet to the street until he miraculously falls into the back of a garbage truck.

Meanwhile, at an airfield in Staten Island, a gang of assassins wait for the Kingpin's plane to arrive, as they were tipped off by information provided by the Kingpin's associate Louie the String. Unfortunately for them, the first plane to arrive was a dummy, timed to explode and kill everyone surrounding it. The second plane arrives, and Kingpin disembarks, ready to save his beloved Vanessa.

(continued in DD #171)

--synopsis by Gormuu

--panel images provided by Avengers Assemble

--letter pages provided by Aussie Stu

Issues Reprinted
Daredevil #168-182

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