Elektra Part 9: Daredevil #179 (February, 1982)

Elektra kicks some Daredevil ass in her ninth appearance.

I have this story in the Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller Vol. 2 trade.

Daily Bugle reporter Ben Urich enters a movie theater to meet a mob contact, but before Urich can learn anything beyond the mob’s financial investment in Mayoral candidate Randolph Winston Cherryh, Elektra kills his informant. She then tells Urich that the people of New York will be electing Cherryh as the new Mayor, that Cherryh will serve the interests of her new employer, and that Urich will do nothing to stop it. Daredevil starts getting nosey, and she sets a trap for him. He takes the bait, and they fight. Daredevil is left for dead under a pile of bricks after falling into the sewers. Urich, meanwhile, gets a sai in his back.

Notes of Interest:
1) Elektra is on Kingpin’s payroll and earns every penny.

2) She also has dialogue!

3) The first few times I read this, I thought Elektra entered the theater after Ben. In fact, she’s there already, waiting for Urich to arrive.

4) Her cold-heartedness really shows. Killing a man in a movie theater? That creeped me right out. Plus, she threw that sai right through Urich without batting an eye, and looked like she enjoyed kicking Matt’s ass.

WTF? Moment: Through all of her appearances so far, including this one, Elektra is shown to have brown eyes. So why, on this classic cover, are her eyes blue?

WTF? Moment #2: It would’ve been nice to actually see Elektra accepting Kingpin’s offer.

WTF? Moment #3: You’d think Matt’s newly returned radar-sense would've warned him about the bear trap.

WTF? Moment #4: Again with Miller's choices of names. Cherryh? How the heck do you pronounce that?