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Brand: Marvel Comics
Series: Daredevil, The Man Without Fear!, a vintage Bronze Age US superhero comic book line starring the blind acrobat vigilante Daredevil in full color within the Marvel Comics Group imprint.
Issue: #129 with a 25¢ cover price and JAN 1976 cover date, a single-issue English-language comic book in the US comics tradition produced in the United States.
Characters and story focus: Pits Daredevil against the rampaging villain Man-Bull in a destructive showdown promoted on the cover with the bold tagline THE MAN-BULL BUSTS LOOSE! and dramatic dialogue balloons as Daredevil notes his strongest punches have no effect on the brute while Man-Bull boasts that this is the day he has waited for.
Front cover artwork shows the massive, horned Man-Bull charging straight toward the reader across splintered timbers and rubble in torn green pants, fists clenched and teeth bared, while Daredevil in his classic red costume leaps onto the villain\'s back and strikes from behind amid explosive yellow energy lines, with panicked bystanders and uniformed figures recoiling along the collapsing pier beneath the large red-and-yellow DAREDEVIL THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR! logo.
Cover elements include the yellow MARVEL COMICS GROUP banner across the top, a Daredevil corner box with a small swinging figure illustration, an upper-left price and issue box listing 25¢, issue number 129, and JAN month alongside the Comics Code Authority seal, a small serial code 02459, a white burst caption reading THE MAN-BULL BUSTS LOOSE!, and a lower-right red box proclaiming ALL-OUT ACTION IN THE MIGHTY MARVEL MANNER!.
Back cover features a full-page Ideal toys advertisement titled THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF EVEL KNIEVEL, spotlighting Evel Knievel performing motorcycle stunts and promoting toys such as the STUNT CYCLE, TRAIL BIKE, FORMULA II DRAGSTER, ADVENTURE SETS, and GYRO-POWERED ENERGIZER, with colorful comic-style panels depicting rescue missions, arctic treks, and record-breaking jumps.
Details: Vintage 1976 Marvel Daredevil #129 Bronze Age color comic book featuring Daredevil battling the Man-Bull with an Evel Knievel Ideal toys advertisement back cover; listing is for the single comic book issue shown.
