Issue(s): Daredevil #139
Cover Date: Nov 76
Title: "A night in the life..."
Credits:
Marv Wolfman - Writer
Sal Buscema - Penciler
Jim Mooney - Inker

Review/plot:
There's been a long boiling plot about corruption at Glenn Industries, and last issue someone even took a shot at Foggy for investigating it, but both this issue and the next are essentially fill-ins that ignore any ongoing storylines. I suspect this is due to the illness of Bob Brown; perhaps Brown had the artwork for the Glenn Industries plotline already far enough along that Marvel wanted to wait for him, and he does return for issues #141-143, which pick up on that storyline.

In this story, a mad bomber is threatening the city because he wants his junkie wife, who has run away, to return to him. Daredevil spends the issue looking for the bomber and/or wife, and keeps getting distracted by other problems.

Also in the story is a hemophiliac runaway boy that winds up hooking up with the junkie wife, even though she's really not in any condition to take care of him.

The most unintentionally funny thing in the issue is what Sal Buscema thought a drug-dealer in 1976 might look like.

Just a simple straightforward story.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• On the opening splash, Daredevil mentions his recent encounters with Iron Man, Ghost Rider, Black Panther and Sub-Mariner in Iron Man #89, last issue (and Ghost Rider #20), and Daredevil annual #4 respectively. He says it's like his life is becoming "one big super-hero team-up!".
  
• At one point in the story Daredevil acts on a tip from Jake Conover, who Daredevil met in Daredevil #131 (and i've listed Conover as appearing here even though he doesn't appear on panel).

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

there's something so cutely innocent about Sal's idea of a drug dealer