DAREDEVIL #24

Cover shows strong gloss and sharp corners with no visible creasing, tears, or color breaks. Spine appears tight with no stress lines visible in this image. Slight softness at the extreme corners cannot be fully ruled out due to the protective sleeve and glare, and interior pages/back cover were not assessed.

Daredevil #24 of the 1998 Marvel Knights series lands mid-way through "Playing to the Camera," the six-part courtroom storyline scripted by Bob Gale with pencils by Dave Ross and inks by Mark Pennington, under a painted cover by David Mack. The premise turns on a civil suit against Daredevil that forces Matt Murdock to prosecute his own alter ego, and this installment opens the trial itself — an early workout of the superhero-accountability idea that Marvel would later scale up. It arrives after the Kevin Smith and David Mack runs and immediately before Brian Michael Bendis took over the title, making it a connective issue rather than a milestone in its own right.

Market profile is that of a plentiful modern-era Marvel book. Print quantities from 2001 were still high enough that unread copies circulate freely through dealer stock and bulk lots, and raw examples trade as run-filler rather than as individually priced collectibles. The only meaningful premium attaches to certified high-grade copies, where the constraint is not scarcity of nice copies but the small number of people willing to pay grading fees on a non-key issue; that keeps the certified market thin, sporadic, and driven largely by David Mack cover collectors and Daredevil run completists assembling slabbed sets.

Buyers here are readers finishing the Marvel Knights run, Mack cover specialists, and the occasional registry-minded collector chasing a complete certified volume two. Across the grade spectrum the book behaves as most modern non-keys do: raw copies from low to mid grade separate by pennies rather than multiples, high-grade raw copies trade at a modest step up, and virtually all of the value concentrates in the top certified tier. Sensible acquisition strategy is to buy raw in bulk and reserve certification for copies with genuine top-grade potential.