Brian Michael Bendis / Alex Maleev Era, Part 1 (2001-2003) More to come. While much attention was lavished on Brian Michael Bendis in this period, including his winning the Best Writer award from both Wizard and Comics Buyer's Guide, two fan-centered publications, the brilliant art of Alex Maleev went comparatively unappreciated.

IMAGE	TITLE	DESCRIPTION	STATUS
Alias #1-28, Daredevil #26-50, Elektra (third series) #6: Brian Michael Bendis script
Daredevil #26-50: Alex Maleev cover
Daredevil #26-37, 41-49, most of 50: Alex Maleev art
Daredevil #26-31: "Underboss" storyline
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #26	begins with Kingpin's stabbing; in flashback, Nitro attacks Matt Murdock; cover-dated December 2001 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #27	in flashback, Matt Murdock visits Foggy Nelson in the hospital and Daredevil visits the Kingpin [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #1-3, Elektra (third series) #6-22: Greg Horn cover
Elektra (third series) #6-8: Chuck Austen art
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #6	silent issue; though Daredevil never appears, Elektra enters Murdock's residence and leaves it as it is in Daredevil #28; includes the first part of Bendis's script; published on Friday, 28 December 2001	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #28	silent issue (part of Marvel's "'Nuff Said" month of such issues); includes the first part of Bendis's script (demonstrating how poorly Maleev, though a very good artist, has successfully depicted what Bendis instructed); published on Wednesday, 19 December 2001 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #29	Vanessa comes to New York and finds her husband near death; in flashback, Daredevil visits the Kingpin for a second time; published on Wednesday, 16 January 2002 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
	Daredevil (second series) #30	Ben Urich suggests Daredevil's identity may be known by others; in flahsback, Mr. Silke sells the conspirators on killing the Kingpin, then puts out the hit (that would strike at Matt Murdock in #26); as the Kingpin is flown off to Switzerland, Vanessa swears revenge; published on Wednesday, 27 February 2002 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
	Daredevil (second series) #31	Vanessa has the conspirators who nearly killed the Kingpin themselves killed; Mr. Silke reveals to the police that Matt Murdock is Daredevil; published on Wednesday, 20 March 2002 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
	Daredevil: Underboss	collects Daredevil (second series) #26-31; uses the cover to #28 as its cover; softcover [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	0
Daredevil #32-37: "Out" storyline
	Daredevil (second series) #32	concludes with The Daily Globe publishing the fact that Matt Murdock is Daredevil; reprinted in Daredevil: The Movie; published on Wednesday, 17 April 2002 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #33	really excellent, both in script and art; Foggy deals with the press and suggests Matt retire from being Daredevil; published on Wednesday, 15 May 2002 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
	Daredevil (second series) #34	Ben Urich and Peter Parker tell The Daily Bugle that they know who Daredevil is and that he's not Matt Murdock; published on Wednesday, 19 June 2002 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
	Daredevil (second series) #35	features Spider-Man; published on Wednesday, 17 July 2002 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS]	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #36	Matt Murdock denies that he is Daredevil at a press conference and announces a 400 million dollar lawsuit for libel against The Daily Globe; three weeks later, Black Widow visits Matt, tries unsuccessfully to convince Matt to go out as Daredevil, and gets the implication, from Foggy Nelson, that Foggy has convinced Matt to focus, without Daredevil, on the legal mess his life has become; Matt has dinner with Vanessa, The Kingpin's wife, in The Kingpin's tower, and learns that his criminal business has been broken up and sold, as has the tower; Elektra appears on the last page; features Luke Cage (Power Man) as Matt's bodyguard [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS] [READ MATT MARTIN'S REVIEW]	1
Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #37	Elektra appears; cover-dated November 2002 [READ JULIAN DARIUS'S ANNOTATIONS] [READ MATT MARTIN'S REVIEW]	1
	Daredevil Vol. 5: Out	collects Daredevil (second series) #32-37; uses the cover to #32 as its cover; softcover [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	0
	Daredevil Vol. 2	collects Daredevil (second series) #26-37; uses the cover to #27 as its front cover; hardcover; magazine size [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
Larger Version Available	Spider-Man / Daredevil #1	"Neighbours"; Daredevil and Spider-Man rescue a kidnapped girl; Ben Urich laments that the press covers Spider-Man more favorably than Daredevil; ends with Ben Urich buying The Globe and seeing another such story; Brett Matthews script; Vatche Mavlian art; published (like Daredevil but unlike Spider-Man) through Marvel Knights; cover-dated October 2001	0
Daredevil #38-40: "The Trial of the Century" storyline
Daredevil #38-49: Manuel Gutierrez art
	Daredevil (second series) #38	cover-dated December 2002 [READ MATT MARTIN'S REVIEW]	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #39	Jessica Jones testifies in court [READ MATT MARTIN'S REVIEW]	1
	Daredevil (second series) #40	Terry Dodson pencils; Rachel Dodson inks; cover-dated February 2003	1
without titles, indicia, or background Larger Version Available	Daredevil: The Target #1	a.k.a. Daredevil / Bullseye: The Target #1; Kevin Smith script; Glenn Fabry art and cover; Daredevil visits Ground Zero (over a year following 11 September 2001's terrorist attacks) and Karen Page's grave; Bullseye is hired by Arab terrorists and kills a single mother, then adopts a costume closer to that of the impending Daredevil film; cardstock cover; cover-dated January 2003; published on Wednesday, 13 November 2002 [READ MATT MARTIN'S REVIEW]	1
Daredevil #41-45: "Lowlife" storyline
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #41	promotionally priced at 25 cents	2
	Daredevil (second series) #42		1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #43		1
	Marvel Must Haves: Daredevil #41-43	reprints Daredevil (second series) #41-43	0
	Daredevil (second series) #44	published on Wednesday, 26 February 2003	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #45	published on Wednesday, 2 April 2003	1
	Daredevil Vol. 6: Lowlife	collects Daredevil (second series) #41-45; softcover	0
Daredevil #46-50: "Hardcore" storyline
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #46		1
Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #47		1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #48		1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #49	Daredevil beats up Bullseye [READ BRYAN MILLER'S REVIEW]	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Daredevil (second series) #50	Daredevil beats up the Kingpin and puts the word out, his mask off, that he runs Hell's Kitchen; Alex Maleev art with half-pages each by Gene Colan & Dave Gutierrez, Lee Weeks & Tom Palmer, Klaus Janson, John Romita Sr. & Al Milgrom, Joe Quesada & Danny Miki, Mike Avon Oeming, and David Mack; cover-dated October 2003; published on Wednesday, 20 August 2003 [READ BRYAN MILLER'S REVIEW]	1
	Daredevil Vol. 7: Hardcore	collects Daredevil (second series) #46-50; softcover	0
	Daredevil Vol. 3	collects Daredevil (second series) #38-50; oversized hardcover	0
ALIAS
Alias #1-28: published by Marvel's MAX imprint
Alias #1-21, 28: Michael Gaydos art; David Mack cover
	Alias #1	the first publication by Marvel's MAX imprint, readily announcing the same in its first panel through the word "fuck"; Luke Cage fucks Jessica Jones; Jessica Jones, hired to find a girl, finds that she is Steve Rogers's girlfriend and learns that he is Captain America (a fact she gets on tape)	0
	Alias #2	Jessica contemplates destroying the tape, discovers that the girl has been killed, visits (and gets blown off from) Luke Cage, visits (and gets no response at) the Avengers Mansion, and gets talked to by the police	1
	Alias #3	Jessica gets interrogated by the police, gets bailed out by Matt Murdock (with money from Luke Cage), and discovers that all of this is somehow connected to the Democratic Presidential candidate Steven Keaton	1
	Alias #4	investigating the Keaton campaign, Jessica finds the woman who initially hired her, talks with the lawyer who hired the woman, and, while waiting in her car for the lawyer to emerge, gets attacked by a large thug	0
	Alias #5	Jessica defeats the large thug and beats him for information, leading to her meeting a rich man on a golf course who explains to her that he is out to smear the President through his association with super-heroes; Clay Quartermain calls and gets her to leave while helicopters and soldiers capture the rich man and his thugs; Jessica talks to Steve Rogers (Captain America) and gives him the tape	0
	Alias #6	Jessica talks to Carol, who reveals that Luke Cage is a "cape chaser" and tries to set Jessica up with Scott Lang (formerly known as Ant-Man); after a time lapse, Jessica investigates a husband moonlighting as a gay, then encounters Jane Jones, who is searching for her husband Rick	0
Alias #7-8: includes art from Rick Jones's Sidekick by Bill Sienkiewicz
	Alias #7	Jessica talks with Rick Jones's wife, begins searching for Rick, finds and reads Rick Jones's book Sidekick, and finds Rick Jones playing guitar at club Ultimate	0
	Alias #8	Jessica confronts Rick Jones, paranoid about the Kree and the Skrulls putting a price on his head, and then talks to him, taking him to the Fantastic Four's Baxter Building, but is unable to get upstairs; Rick Jones runs off	0
	Alias #9	Jessica calls the Avengers hotline, gets the final proof on the husband moonlighting as a gay, learns from the Avengers' butler Jarvis that the Rick Jones she met was not the Rick Jones but an imposter, meets her fake Rick Jones, talks to the secretly gay husband, and contemplates her willingness to believe the fake Rick Jones	0
	Alias Vol. 1	collects Alias #1-9; introduction by Jeph Loeb; softcover	0
	Alias #11		0
Alias #12-13: includes art from a teenager's journal by David Mack
Alias #12, 21: includes a dream sequence of Jessica's career as the super-hero Jewel, illustrated by Mark Bagley (with Rodney Ramos in #12, with Al Vey & Dean White in #21)
	Alias #12		0
	Alias #13	features (in the final pages) a radio broadcast discussing the recent revelation of Daredevil's identity (probably occuring during the portion of Daredevil #33 set in the present day)	0
	Alias #14	Matt Murdock calls Jessica Jones, requesting her services	0
	Alias #15	features the same scene as Daredevil #36, in which Jessica Jones and Luke Cage are working for Matt Murdock	0
	Alias Vol. 2: Come Home	collects Alias #11-15; also includes a David Mack sketchbook with an introduction by Brian Michael Bendis; softcover	0
	Alias #10	has J. Jonah Jameson hire Jessica Jones, in the wake of the Daredevil exposé, to try to discover Spider-Man's identity (ocurring around or immediately following the end of Daredevil's "Out" storyline); Ben Urich also appears; has no word balloons, instead giving characters' statements in the form of a play's script; takes a page of Alex Maleev's art from Daredevil (second series) #32	0
Jessica Jones testifies in court in Daredevil (second series) #39, which occurs here
Alias #16-21: "The Underneath" storyline
	Alias #16	near the end, J. Jonah Jameson refers to the White Tiger trial (from Daredevil's "Trial of the Century" storyline)	1
	Alias #17		0
	Alias #18	Matt Murdock appears in a scene that slightly overlaps with a scene in Daredevil (second series) #42	0
	Alias #19		0
	Alias #20		0
	Alias #21		1
	Alias Vol. 3: The Underneath	collects Alias #10, 16-21; softcover	0
Alias #22-27: no art or cover data entered
	Alias #22		0
	Alias #23		0
Alias #24-28: "Purple" storyline
	Alias #24		0
	Alias #25		0
	Alias #26		0
	Alias #27		0
	Alias #28	final issue; has a farewell letter from Bendis; cover-dated January 2004	1
	Alias Vol. 4: The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones	collects Alias #22-28; softcover	0
ELEKTRA AND BLACK WIDOW
1. Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer
Elektra (third series) #7-22; Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer #1-3; and Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #1-3: Greg Rucka script
Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer #1-3: Yoshitaka Amano art and cover; done as the illustrated prose (like Sandman: The Dream Hunters, which also featured Yoshitaka Amano's art); 48 pages
	Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer #1	cover-dated January 2002	0
	Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer #2		0
	Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer #3	cover-dated March 2002	0
	Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer	collects Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer #1-3; softcover	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer [hardcover edition]	reproduces originals in slightly oversized form; hardcover [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	0
2. Rucka's First Storyline
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #7	Elektra is hired by females; published on Wednesday, 13 February 2002	1
Larger Version Available The cover to Elektra (third series) #7 without titles, indicia, or the background of Athens.
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #8	Elektra captures a number of rapists; published on Wednesday, 27 March 2002	1
Elektra (third series) #9-10: Joe Bennett art
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #9	a disappointing conclusion; published on Wednesday, 24 April 2002	1
3. Black Widow: Pale Little Spider
Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #1-3: Igor Kordey art; published under Marvel's Max imprint
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #1	cover-dated June 2002; published on Wednesday, 17 April 2002	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #2	published on Wednesday, 15 May 2002	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #3	published on Wednesday, 12 June 2002	1
4. Elektra: Glimpse & Echo
Elektra: Glimpse & Echo #1-3: Scott Morse story and art
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra: Glimpse & Echo #1	published on Wednesday, 17 July 2002	1
	Elektra: Glimpse & Echo #2		0
	Elektra: Glimpse & Echo #3		0
	Elektra: Glimpse & Echo #4	last issue	0
5. Greg Rucka's 13-Issue Arc
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Marvel Knights: Double-Shot #3	features two stories, one of Elektra with a Greg Rucka script (originally intended to be published prior to his taking over the regular series) and Greg Horn (interior!) art, the other of Cloak & Dagger by Peter Gross (story and breakdowns) and Ryan Kelly (finished art); Glenn Fabry cover; originally supposed to carry a February 2002 cover date (December 2001 publication), but resolicited with an August 2002 cover-date; published on Wednesday, 5 June 2002	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #10	"Unemployment"; published on Thursday, 30 May 2002	1
Elektra (third series) #11-15: Carlo Pagulayan pencils; Danny Miki inks
Elektra (third series) #11-15: "Introspect" storyline
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #11	Elektra, wandering and unable to find work, keeps killing until she is approached by Jeremy Locke; published on Wednesday, 12 June 2002	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #12	Jeremy Locke educates Elektra on her innocent victims, then abandons her in the Mojave desert; published on Wednesday, 3 July 2002	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #13	other relatives of Elektra's innocent victims, with whom Locke was working and who wanted Elektra dead, take soldiers out to the Mohave desert to kill Elektra, finding her all but dead	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #14	Elektra kills all the soldiers and enters Locke's house	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #15	Elektra craves death and finds that Locke wants not to kill her but to reform her	0
	Elektra Vol. 1: Introspect	collects Elektra (third series) #10-15 plus the Elektra story from Marvel Knights: Double-Shot #3; uses the cover to #14 as its cover; softcover [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
Elektra (third series) #16-22: no interior art data entered
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #16	Elektra meets a horribly politically correct black female sensei who defeats Elektra but won't teach her	0
	Elektra (third series) #17	Elektra deals with soccer-playing kids and such distractions while trying to convince the new sensei to teach her -- unsuccessfully, until she dumbly begins to play soccer with the kids	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #18	Elektra cleans up the neighborhood (literally) with her new sensei	0
Elektra (third series) #19-20: silly artwork utterly inappropriate to the title
	Elektra (third series) #19		0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #20	the Hand attack; published on Wednesday, 26 February 2003	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #21	Elektra's new sensei dies, melodramatically and conveniently; published on Wednesday, 2 April 2003	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Elektra (third series) #22	Elektra returns to her old ways as a killing machine, killing the Hand and the man who had helped her change	0
	Elektra Vol. 2: Everything Old is New Again	collects Elektra (third series) #16-22; uses the cover to #22 as its cover; softcover [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
MARVEL KNIGHTS
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Marvel Knights: Double-Shot #4	features two stories, one of the Marvel Knights (Daredevil, the Punisher, and the Black Widow) with a John Figueroa script and Alberto Ponticelli art (this story was originally intended as a preview to the relaunched series), the other of Iron Fist entirely by Gene Ha; Glenn Fabry cover; final issue; originally supposed to carry a March 2002 cover date (January 2002 publication), but resolicited to be published in July 2002, cover-dated September 2002	0
Marvel Knights (second series) #1: John Figueroa script; Alberto Ponticelli art
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Marvel Knights (second series) #1	cover-dated May 2002; published on Wednesday, 27 March 2002	1
Marvel Knights (second series) #2-6: no data entered
	Marvel Knights (second series) #2		0
	Marvel Knights (second series) #3		0
	Marvel Knights (second series) #4	published on Wednesday, 3 July 2002	0
	Marvel Knights (second series) #5		0
	Marvel Knights (second series) #6	last issue	0
MOVIE ADAPTATION
	Daredevil: Movie Adaptation	Bruce Jones script (based on the screenplay by Mark Steven Johnson); Manuel Garcia pencils; Scott Hanna inks; Brian Stelfreeze pained cover; adapts the 2003 film	0
	Daredevil: The Movie	collects Daredevil: Movie Adaptation, Daredevil (second series) #32, Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra #1, and Spider-Man's Tangled Web #4; published in 2003 [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	0

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