BIOGRAPHY -- Page 16
At a fundraiser for the re-election campaign of D.A. Blake Tower, Matt learned that the Hulk had been sighted in New York. Having previously defended Banner, Murdock took some flak from the attendees, and he also had to avoid Heather putting her new boyfriend in his path. As it happened, he found an excuse to leave the party early when he detected the unmistakable heartbeat of the Hulk. Matt tracked the behemoth down and managed to calm him enough to get Hulk to change back to Banner. Matt gave Bruce his bed for the night, a hot breakfast, and clothes to help him get out of town without another incident. Unfortunately, Bruce unthinkingly chose the NYC subway, inevitably triggering his anxiety and transformation into the incredible Hulk. 
Daredevil tried to calm the Hulk’s rampage, but a quick-triggered cop shot the Hulk so that he was beyond reason. Daredevil fought alone, trying to find pressure points or some other way of dropping the Hulk, but he only ended up taking a merciless beating. It only stopped when the Hulk chose to leave rather than finish Daredevil off. [Daredevil (1st series) #163]
Matt recuperated in the hospital as Daredevil for some time, with Natasha by his bedside. As he prepared to leave, however, Daredevil was approached by Ben Urich of the Daily Bugle. Ben had a growing suspicion he had nursed ever since Death-Stalker’s attack on the Storefront. He talked to the people at Fogwell’s Gym where Jack Murdock was killed, people from the neighborhood who remembered Matt “Daredevil” Murdock’s childhood nickname, the doctors’ reports that detailed how Matt was extraordinarily sensitive to sounds and smells after his accident with a radioactive isotope. Urich came to Daredevil and showed him a picture of Battlin’ Jack Murdock, 
challenging him to describe the photo and prove he wasn’t blind. Matt was completely caught off-guard and trapped by Ben’s diligence, and he admitted the whole story was true. After relaying his origins to Urich in full, Matt asked Ben what he intended to do with his story. With a moment’s hesitation, Ben Urich decided to can the story entirely and allow Daredevil to go on operating in secret so his work as a hero could continue. [Daredevil (1st series) #164]
One evening, Daredevil followed a lead from an informant and learned that a stolen shipment of Adamantium was being smuggled into Manhattan to Glenn Industries. Matt couldn’t believe Glenn Industries was involved in criminal activity, as Heather had taken over as chairperson when her father died. He interrupted a board meeting where the other businessmen were trying to mislead Heather about a suspicious business deal to sell off a Glenn electronics plant to get back in the black. Daredevil tried to explain his concerns, but Heather’s emotions got the best of her and she drove off Daredevil rather than let him get involved with her father’s company again.
Heather cooled down and did her own investigating, running afoul of Doctor Octopus, who intended to cast a new set of Adamantium tentacles using the Glenn Industries plant. When Matt learned Heather was missing, he left Natasha to go looking for her, and the Black Widow finally started to sense Matt was genuinely still in love with Heather. Daredevil visited the Glenn Industries location and found Doctor Octopus forging his new arms. Even Daredevil’s radar sense 
had trouble keeping up with Octavius and his undulating limbs, but Heather broke free and struck Doctor Octopus in the face with a broken piece of glass. Rallying his wits, Daredevil tricked Octavius into striking a high-voltage junction box, electrocuting himself. Matt and Heather were lovingly reunited as a couple, and Natasha Romanoff decided it was time to leave town again for a while. [Daredevil (1st series) #165]
On the day of Foggy Nelson’s long-awaited wedding to Deborah Harris, the Gladiator had a mental break. Melvin Potter had been working towards improving his mental health, with a good deal of assistance from his social worker, Betsy Beatty. Melvin’s delusions about being a gladiator in ancient Rome returned, however, and he took Betsy and a group of school children hostage in 
a museum in order to declare his love for her. In his nervousness on the big day, Foggy had lost track of Debbie’s ring, giving Matt an excuse to go searching for it and meet up with Gladiator when he heard about the crisis. Daredevil beat Gladiator, as Melvin fell further into his Roman delusions, and Betsy remained committed to helping him. Back at the church, Foggy found Debbie’s ring had been on his pinkie finger the whole time, and Matt Murdock stood as the best man to witness Mr. and Mrs. Foggy Nelson bound together in holy matrimony. [Daredevil (1st series) #166]
Matt and Heather attended a house party for the munitions dealer Edwin Cord when he was attacked by an armored figure called the Mauler. Daredevil made an appearance and distracted Mauler long enough for the police to arrive, driving him off. Cord refused to answer questions, claiming special security clearance from his work with the government exempted him from investigation. Daredevil later made an extra-legal visit to Cord and learned Mauler was a disgruntled ex-employee named Aaron Soames who stole a prototype armor from Cord Industries to seek revenge for his firing. When the Mauler made a second assault on Cord, Daredevil learned the whole story. Soames was a clerk who worked 35 years before being replaced by a computer, the same computer which accidentally deleted his personnel records, allowing Cord to 
refuse to pay his pension. Mauler actually only wanted poetic justice and was satisfied with destroying the IDs and credit cards in Cord’s wallet. Cord security then arrived and killed the man, however, and Edwin Cord bragged that national security interests would let him cover up the whole incident. Daredevil clocked Cord and admitted to himself that the law had failed the interests of justice this time. [Daredevil (1st series) #167]
Matt Murdock’s expertise in superhuman law led him to consult on the case of Kyle Richmond, a.k.a. Nighthawk, who had been served with an injunction to prevent him from assuming his second identity, on top of other legal woes. This led to Daredevil and the Defenders teaming up with their old foe in common, the Mandrill, who had resurfaced with his new mesmerized army of Fem-Force. The Mandrill captured Daredevil first and locked him in a bank vault to die, but Matt’s radar sense allowed him to probe beyond the vault’s walls and find a solution. Mandrill’s plot was personal this time, as he attacked the Arrowshaft Nuclear Plant where the parents who abandoned him in the wild were working. In the end, it was Mandrill’s own mother who shot him down before he could cause a nuclear meltdown. [Defenders (1st series) #88-91]
Daredevil got involved in a murder case where the wrong man was accused. A thief named Alarich Wallenquist saw the real murderer, but he hired Eric Slaughter’s men to prevent Daredevil from bringing him in to the D.A. to testify. Daredevil was ready to lean on Turk Barrett (as usual), but Slaughter assigned back-up to kill Turk if he started to spill the beans. Daredevil barely got Turk clear of the nitro explosion and was injured in the blast. Bleeding from the arm, Daredevil pursued the second man and got a lead on Wallenquist, but he was struck down from behind by the blunt 
end of a sai. As he began to pass out, Matt was startled to hear the voice of Elektra Natchios, now a grim bounty hunter looking to bring Wallenquist back to Europe.
When he woke up, Matt was stunned by what Elektra had become. It appeared she had turned her back completely on what they once believed in together. And yet, she had bandaged the crime-fighter’s arm, so he didn’t bleed out after she knocked him unconscious. Daredevil tracked Elektra to the waterfront, where Slaughter intended to move Wallenquist out of the city by seaplane. A tranquilizer dart got the drop on Elektra, but Daredevil fought his way through Slaughter’s remaining men. However, Wallenquist took the woozy Elektra at gunpoint and forced Daredevil to turn away. Knowing the man planned to kill them both, Matt shouted out the same 
cues he gave Elektra the day her father died. Daredevil and the bounty hunter disabled Wallenquist, and Matt and Elektra were quietly reunited in the aftermath. Elektra understood who Matt was and that they were now natural enemies. They shared a kiss before Matt walked off without another word, taking Wallenquist to the D.A. [Daredevil (1st series) #168]
When he heard Bullseye escaped from custody, Daredevil met Lieutenant Nick Manolis at the scene. It seemed Bullseye had developed a terminal brain tumor and fled the hospital just before the corrective surgery was to begin. The assassin was suffering hallucinations where everybody he saw was wearing a Daredevil costume, signifying his growing madness and obsession with the Devil. Bullseye was no less dangerous because of his tumor, and he took hostages while fighting Daredevil at a movie theatre. Using his senses to their utmost as Stick taught him, Matt sat on a rooftop and expanded his hearing across the city to locate the unique, persistent cough of one hostage. Daredevil found Bullseye and chased him down into the subway, where the sounds and smells left him at a severe disadvantage. Despite this, he managed to get his hands on Bullseye and beat the assassin unconscious on the subway tracks. As a train approached, Matt tried to convince himself he was too weak to reach Bullseye, that the assassin deserved to die… but ultimately he saved Bullseye’s life. As Bullseye underwent and survived his surgery, Manolis was furious. He believed (correctly) that some defense attorney would argue the tumor made Bullseye homicidal in the first place, and soon he would be free and back on the streets. Daredevil half-heartedly suggested maybe the tumor WAS responsible, but in the end, he felt he had to believe in the law and not stoop to becoming a murderer simply because Bullseye was one too. [Daredevil (1st series) #169]
