DAREDEVIL NINJA #3

Cover shows sharp corners and clean edges with no visible chipping or creasing; spine appears tight with no stress lines visible in this photo. Colors appear vibrant with no evident fading or staining. The book is housed in a protective sleeve which limits full assessment of surface gloss and minor edge wear. Interior pages and back cover were not visible and thus not assessed, so grade is capped conservatively.

Daredevil: Ninja #3 closes the three-issue Marvel Knights limited series written by Brian Michael Bendis with art, inks and covers by Rob Haynes and color by David Self, edited by Joe Quesada. The story sends Matt Murdock from Hell's Kitchen to Tokyo after the theft of the staff left behind by his mentor Stick, drawing him into the long war between the Hand and the order of warrior-monks represented by Stone; the final chapter brings Stone back to Murdock's side for the resolution. Its chief historical interest is chronological: this was Bendis's first work on the character, published shortly before he took over the ongoing Daredevil title with the Underboss arc, and it deliberately builds on threads from Frank Miller's run and Kevin Smith's Guardian Devil.

Market behavior is that of a common late-Marvel-Knights limited series. Print runs were adequate to demand, the series was collected in trade paperback within months, and single issues circulate freely in dollar boxes and as complete three-issue sets, which is how most copies actually change hands. Certified activity is negligible, so there is no established slab market to reference; when high-grade copies are submitted, they compete against the general run of modern non-keys where the certification itself accounts for most of the realized figure. Demand drivers are limited to Bendis completists, Daredevil run collectors and buyers assembling Hand and Stick material, with periodic bumps whenever Daredevil is in front of a screen audience.

Buyers for this book are readers and run collectors rather than investors. It trades as a set far more often than as a single, and the spread between a low-grade reading copy and a sharp unread copy is narrow enough that condition sensitivity only begins to matter at the top of the scale, where scarcity of submitted copies rather than scarcity of the book itself governs pricing. For a dealer archive it is best positioned as fill for Daredevil and Bendis runs, or bundled with #1 and #2, where the complete arc carries more appeal than any individual chapter.