Daredevil Vol. 1 #158

This is issue #158 of Daredevil Vol. 1 (launched in 1964), published in May 1979, with the story titled "A Grave Mistake!" Picking up from the previous issue: the trio known as the Unholy Three—Ape-Man, Cat-Man, and Bird-Man—burst into the law office of Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson, knock Foggy unconscious, and abduct Matt. Black Widow tries desperately to stop them; with help from Becky Blake she only takes down Bird-Man, while Ape-Man and Cat-Man escape with Matt to St. Stephen's Cemetery, where their true employer, Death-Stalker, has already dug a fresh grave. Death-Stalker confesses to Matt that he is none other than the Exterminator, an old enemy of Daredevil; years earlier Matt destroyed his machine and left him trapped in a displaced time stream, and he has now returned to reality solely for revenge. Matt breaks free, dons his costume, and battles this foe—who can shift between intangibility and solid form—in the darkness of the graveyard. In the end Death-Stalker miscalculates: materializing in the same space as a tombstone, he is cut cleanly in two and dies. The issue's greatest significance is that it is the first Daredevil issue drawn by Frank Miller and one of his earliest official cover assignments, regarded as the starting point of the character's most influential era.