First Appearance: Peter "Hogman" Grunter, Mary Elizabeth O'Koren, Coach Patrick Donahue, Billy O'Koren, Sister Helen, John "Flapper" Phillips

Villain: Hogman

Guest Appearance: Mary Elizabeth O'Koren, Billy O'Koren, Coach Donahue, Sister Helen, Heather Glenn, Punisher, Judge Coffin

Featured Thugs: Joey, Louievlle

Death: Mary Elizabeth O'Koren, Flapper

Innovation: Matt proposes marriage to Heather

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Billy snags a gun from his delinquent father's drawer and heads out to do the deed. While Hogman's partner, Flapper, is passing out angel dust to his dealers, Daredevil wanders the streets disguised in street clothes, looking out for Hogman. A street gang descends upon him, beating on him with fists and bats, when suddenly one of his attackers is struck down with a knife to his back.

In short time, Daredevil realizes it's the Punisher, who mows his way through DD's attackers. When he realizes he's in the company of Daredevil, he introduces himself, but the next instant the dealer named Flapper is gunned down in the street from a sniper high up on the rooftops. The Punisher takes off, but Daredevil springs to the top of the roof, seeing Billy O'Koren with a pistol raised. But Billy says he merely fired over Flapper, not at him. Matt becomes Billy's attorney and tells the judge Billy's side of the story- that he wanted to kill Flapper, but at the last second fired over him. Matt remands Billy to the custody of the boy's Coach Donahue. Later, Daredevil gets a crash course on the Punisher and his activities from Ben Urich.

DD goes back to the scene of Flapper's murder and realizes that the real shooter was somebody above and beyond Billy, on another, higher rooftop. While he's there, he overhears the Punisher slapping around a junkie, trying to get information from him concerning Hogman's whereabouts. Daredevil fights him off the junkie, and the Punisher takes off as the guy collapses from a heart attack. Right before the guy passes out, he tells DD that Hogman can be found at Poppa's Restaurant.

DD takes the junkie to the hospital and then heads out to Poppa's, grabbing Hogman by the scruff of the neck and interrogating him. At the trial, the junkie gives testimony that it wasn't Billy that killed Flapper, but another unknown gunman. This lets Billy off the hook, and attention turns to Hogman as the killer of his ex-partner. But Hogman stands up and in front of the court declares his innocence. Matt reads his heartbeat and determines that he's not lying, and takes on his defense case. The Punisher overhears this and realizes he has to get Hogman soon.

The next day, Matt meets with Heather Glenn in Central Park and asks her to marry him.

(continued in DD #184)

--synopsis by Gormuu

--panel images provided by Avengers Assemble

--letter pages provided by Aussie Stu

Issues Reprinted
Daredevil #183-191, What If #28, 35,
and Elektra from Bizarre Adventures #28

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