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Daredevil / Elektra: Love & War          Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket (11.15″ x 7.55″) 
First Printing (2003) 
Editors: Allen Milgrom, Archie Goodwin, Jo Duffy, & Joe Quesada 
Dust Jacket Front Cover by: Bill Sienkiewicz
Dust Jacket Back Cover by: Bill Sienkiewicz
Collecting Daredevil: Love & War (Marvel Graphic Novel #24) and Elektra: Assassin (1986) issues #1-8.

Writer Frank Miller and artist Bill Sienkiewicz are two visionary creators – and when their talents combine, the results are spectacular! In the acclaimed Daredevil graphic novel LOVE AND WAR, Miller and Sienkiewicz take a unique look at the bitter rivalry between the Man Without Fear and the Kingpin of Crime – as all that Wilson Fisk holds dear is placed in grave danger! And in ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN, Miller’s deadly creation – the Hand’s greatest warrior, the former love of Matt Murdock – returns for a stunning tale of good and evil, life and death, triumph and tragedy! Featuring Sienkiewicz’s startling painted artwork on oversized pages, Daredevil and Elektra have never looked more incredible! Two epic tales of devotion and death, now in one deluxe oversized hardcover!

From the inside dust jacket flap:

There was no blind adventurer; no ninja-for-hire. There was only Matt Murdock, a 19-year old boy who had yet to find a purpose for his strange powers, and Elektra Natchios, the sheltered daughter of a Greek ambassador. For both, it was first love. But the tragic death of Elektra’s father left her emotionally shattered, transforming the naïve college student into the world’s most deadly assassin. And when his father suffered a similar fate, Matt was cast as the grim guardian of Hell’s Kitchen.

Daredevil.
Elektra.
Two lives
inextricably intertwined…
in love and war.

The 1980s was a groundbreaking period in the history of comic books, with a flood of talented writers and artists smashing the boundaries of the medium. Epitomizing the decade’s bold spirit of innovation, visionary creators Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz unleashed two epics in 1986 that bore no resemblance to any previous comic book – and to few since.

Daredevil: Love and War and Elektra: Assassin represent a rare synergy between two acclaimed auteurs, each at the top of his creative career.

Love and War dares to peer into the pitch-black heart and tainted soul of pure evil.

The Kingpin has built an empire on human sin. He is feared by the innocent and the wicked. Elected officials obey his will as swiftly as the lowest pimps and pushers. He has everything he desired. Everything he desired… until he met her. Will Wilson Fisk allow his one weakness to undo all he has achieved?

Assassin is a psychological excursion through the mind, body and soul of a woman at war with herself.

An unconscious body washes ashore off the coast of a small Central American country, setting in motion a strange series of events. Two police officers are strangled. A diplomat is assassinated. A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is brutally dismembered. Unrelated incidents? Hardly. Elektra is back.

Contents:
“Daredevil: Love and War” (1986)
Writer: Frank Miller
Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos, after Jim Novak
Original Editor: Allen Milgrom

Daredevil vs. Kingpin! A groundbreaking graphic novel that is essentially a Kingpin graphic novel (according to Miller himself) that pits Fisk against Daredevil with the live of Vanessa (Fisk’s wife) hanging in the balance. Sienkiewicz’s impressionistic painted art stunned comic readers of the 80s and remains vibrant even to this day. Miller’s story, part psychological drama, part action thriller, is one of his best.

“Elektra: Assassin” (1986)
Writer: Frank Miller
Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz
Letterer: Jim Novak & Gaspar Saladino
Original Editor: Archie Goodwin & Jo Duffy

Elektra Natchios, daughter of Greek Diplomat Hugo Natchios and his wife, Christina, has been a gymnast, martial artist, ninja, and assassin… a beautiful killing machine. Though she was a highly skilled black belt by age twelve, trained in the lethal arts of Ninjitsu, and widely considered as the world’s deadliest assassin, she is dead. Or is she really?

But as body counts rise and Shield operatives mobilize to follow / investigate a bloody trail of sliced up corpse, it becomes apparent that the world’s deadliest assassin is not as dead as everybody thought.

With Frank Miller’s unique storytelling and Bill Sienkiewicz’s surreal, violently realistic, painted art, Electra Assassin presents a dark and moody insight into the life and mind of a perfect killing machine. A classic by any standard!

Over-sized Hardcover reprints/collects:
Daredevil: Love and War (1986) Graphic Novel.  Marvel Comics
Elektra Assassin (1986) Issues #1-8.  Marvel Comics

Over-sized Hardcover is bagged and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly. 

First Printing 
Publisher: Marvel Comics 
Publication Date: 2003
Format: FC, 328 pages, HC/DJ, 11.15″ x 7.55″ 
ISBN-10: 0785110321 
ISBN-13: 9780785110323

Collectible Entertainment note: Over-sized Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket is in Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Daredevil and/or Elektra enthusiast / collector.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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