Issue(s): Daredevil #105, Daredevil #106, Daredevil #107
Published Date: Nov 73 - Jan 74
Title: "Menace from the moons of Saturn! / Moon Dragon" / "Life be not proud!" / "Blind man's bluff!"
Credits:
Steve Gerber - Writer
Don Heck & Jim Starlin / Don Heck / Bob Brown - Penciler
Don Perlin / Sal Trapani / Sal Buscema - Inker

Review/plot:
Daredevil is thrown off a cliff by Kraven the Hunter but he is teleported away before he crashes. He winds up in an undersea lab run by Moondragon.

Moondragon was under the impression that Daredevil was a thrall of Thanos and she's been helping Matt Murdock's boss Kerwin Broderick secretly take over the city by creating super-villains for him, including Ramrod, Angar the Screamer, the Dark Messiah, and Terrax (not Galactus' Terrax). After sorting things out with DD (including a depiction of her origin by Jim Starlin - her parents killed in a car crash (later revealed to be the result of an attack by Thanos), she was taken to Titan and raised by the Shao-Lom Monastery, where she learned martial arts and genetics), she gets shot by Kerwin.

Meanwhile, the Black Widow defeats Kraven and gets close with Lt. Paul Carson.

After this scene a narration box tells us to ponder Carson's non-sequitor.

As Broderick leaves to merge with Terrax, Moondragon restores DD's sight so that he can use her technology to heal her wound. Then they meet back up with the Black Widow to fight the Dark Messiah and Ramrod. Angar switches sides after Terrax kills his girlfriend because she was telling Angar not to get involved with these people. Angar is dealing with his mental problems and he keeps saying "I am David Angar. I am sane."

Captain Mar-vell shows up to help fight Ramrod and Terrax, although Rick Jones doesn't really have a sense of urgency about letting Marvel out of the Negative Zone.

Terrax is defeated by Moondragon helping Angar create an illusion of a giant egg that leaks "un-life". No, i don't know what that means either, but hey, it works.

While all this is going on, the police chief Robert O'Hara gets a telegram informing him that his brother is dead. This is setting up for the continuation of the plot from Shanna the She-She Devil, since that series was cancelled and Gerber was writing both that as well. I don't know if it was planned all along that Robert was Shanna's uncle, or if Gerber just took advantage of a coincidence that occured due to the fact that all policemen in comic books have Irish last names.

Moondragon was apparently going by the name Madame McEvil for a while.

In Moondragon's origin flashback in issue #105 we get to see a baby Thanos.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: origin of Moondragon. Resolution of the crime mastermind of San Francisco plot.

Chronological Placement Considerations: Takes place between Captain Marvell #30 and #31.

References:

• Newreporter Lucretia Jones met Daredevil in Daredevil #95-96
  
• Thanos was shown to be in control of Titan as of Captain Marvel #27.
  
• Moondragon caused a fight between Namor and Iron Man in Iron Man #54 (incorrectly listed in the footnote as #55). It turns out she was testing them to see how they'd stack up against Thanos.
  
• Dardevil previously fought Mordecai/the Dark Messiah in Daredevil #98
  
• He fought Ramrod in Daredevil #103
  
• He fought Angar the Screamer in Daredevil #100-101
  
• Matt Murdock wouldn't run his cases the way his boss Broderick asked him to in Daredevil #98, Daredevil #101, Daredevil #103, and Daredevil #104
  
• Captain Marvel has been on the move since the Kree Jewels case in Marvel Team-Up #16-17
  
• This takes place after Captain Marvel's metamorphosis in Captain Marvel #29
  

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: N/A