Issue Description

Mr. Silke's attempt to take over the Kingpin's territory backfires when Vanessa, the Kingpin's estranged wife, exacts revenge on all his fellow conspirators, brutally killing everyone including her own son.

Afraid for his life, Silke turns himself into the FBI. When they refuse his request for protection he gives them the one piece of information that the Kingpin had that he thinks will save him.

That Daredevil is really a blind lawyer named Matt Murdock.

The FBI decide not to follow up on the Daredevil information. But the next day, on the cover of the biggest tabloid in the city, the headline reads: Daredevil's Secret Identity Revealed.

The secret is out.

After months of a media circus with old villains trying to attack him in his civilian identity, Matt Murdock holds a nationwide press conference to announce that he is not Daredevil and he is suing the tabloid for four hundred million dollars.

Matt has decided to lie to save his law practice and himself from going to jail.

Vanessa Fisk meets Matt and announces that she has dismantled the Kingpin's entire crime syndicate operation. As a going away present, she gives Matt the name of the FBI agent that sold his story to the tabloids.

Matt's ex crime fighting partner, the Black Widow, is disturbed to see that Matt has put his secred identity away to focus on the legal fight in front of him. She makes a phone call to a voice from Daredevil's past in an attempt to shake Matt out of the mental rut she thinks he is in. Elektra has come to visit.

Daredevil (1998)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

Volume 2 (continued from volume 1)

Part of the Marvel Knights imprint, with a top writer Kevin Smith and artist Joe Quasada at the series' helm. With issue 26, Brain Micheal Bendis took over the series, which lasted until issue 81, making it one of the longest running and most critically acclaimed runs for any writer on the character. After issue #119, the series reverts to its original numbering of volume 1 with issue #500, collecting two volumes into one. The volume ends at issue #512. After this point it becomes Black Panther: Man Without Fear. Daredevil's adventures continued with Daredevil Volume 3.

This series is also collected in trade paperbacks:

Guardian Devil (#1-8) Parts of a Hole (#9-15) Wake Up (#16-19) Underboss (#26-31) Out (#32-40) Lowlife (#41-45) Hardcore (#46-50) Echo: Vision Quest (#51-55) King of Hell's Kitchen (#56-60) The Widow (#61-65) Golden Age (#66-70) Decalogue (#71-75) The Murdock Papers (#76-81) The Devil, Inside and Out, Vol 1 (#82-87) The Devil, Inside and Out, Vol 2 (#88-93) Hell to Pay, Vol 1 (#94-99) Hell to Pay, Vol 2 (#100-105, Annual 1) Cruel and Unusual (#106-110) Lady Bullseye (#111-115) Return of the King (#116-119, #500) The Devil's Hand (#501-507) Shadowland (#508-512)

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