Daredevil #232 VF/NM 9.0 1986 1st Appearance Nuke Born Again Frank Miller Direct For Sale

ComicsCardsCanvasCoins Listing Template ComicsCardsCanvasCoins COMICS • CARDS • CANVAS • COINS Who Needs Diamonds When You Have the Right Four C’s? Daredevil #232 — “God and Country” — 1st Appearance of Nuke — Born Again Part 6 by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli — Direct Edition Publisher Marvel Comics Group Issue #232 Year 1986 (cover date July 1986) Key Information KEY ISSUE: 1st appearance of Nuke (Frank Simpson). “Born Again” Part 6 of the Frank Miller / David Mazzucchelli storyline (#227-233). David Mazzucchelli cover. Marvel 25th Anniversary cover emblem. Direct Edition (no UPC). 75 cents. RoboGrader Assessment Predicted CGC 9.0 VF/NM — RoboGrade score 9 Grade & Condition — RoboGrader Assessment Seller’s Notes Raw, unslabbed copy, Direct Edition, of the 1st appearance of Nuke. The cover is bright and glossy with strong flag colors, and we see no creases, tears, color breaks or rubs. The front corners are sharp; on the back, the top and bottom outer corners are very slightly soft. The spine is tight and flat, with no stress lines that we can see, and the staples are flush. The edges are clean and square cut. We see no writing, stamps, stains or missing pieces, and there are no major defects. Please look at every photo, and ask us if you would like another view. 9.0 Predicted CGC 9.0 VF/NM RoboGrade score 9 ±1 (overall photo score) • Assessed Oct 23, 2026 Predicted equivalent: CGC 9.0 VF/NM (independent prediction; RoboGrader is not affiliated with any grading service) (estimate only, not a guarantee) Page Quality: Off-White to White Seller’s Condition Notes (our own visual inspection) Bright, glossy cover with strong red, white and blue flag colors and a clean yellow; no creases, tears, color-breaking stress or rubs seen. The front corners are sharp, with no folds or blunting seen. On the back cover, the top and bottom outer corners are very slightly soft (rounded). The spine is flat and tight; the black spine-edge strip is clean, with no stress lines or color breaks seen; staples are flush with no rust seen. Edges are clean and square cut, with no chipping. The Power Pack / Spider-Man public-service ad on the back cover is clean, with no creases, stains or writing. Pages are supple; the small pink marks at the top edge of the interior pages are printer’s marks from the press run, not damage. No writing, stamps, stains or missing pieces seen. No major defects. These notes are ours, not part of the RoboGrader report. The app showed the RoboGrade score and predicted CGC grade, but did not issue itemized defect notes, a written assessment or an assessment ID for this copy. Robograde is RoboGrader’s digital condition assessment and is not affiliated with, or the same as, encapsulation/certification by CGC or CBCS. The predicted CGC grade is an estimate only and is not a guarantee of the grade CGC or any other grading service would assign. Grades reflect the condition of the book at the time of assessment. A RoboGrader summary image is included in the photo gallery above — please also review all listing photos and make your own condition determination before purchasing. Item Description

Daredevil #232 (Marvel Comics Group, cover date July 1986) is “God and Country”, a key issue: the FIRST APPEARANCE of Nuke (Frank Simpson), the Kingpin’s deranged super soldier. It is Part 6 of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s classic “Born Again” storyline (Daredevil #227-233). The cover is pencilled and inked by David Mazzucchelli (signed) and shows Daredevil in silhouette against an American flag with Nuke’s eyes, under the Marvel 25th Anniversary corner box.

The 22-page story is written by Frank Miller with pencils and inks by David Mazzucchelli, colors by Christie Scheele and letters by Joe Rosen; edited by Ralph Macchio. Matt Murdock helps Karen Page kick her drug habit, while the Kingpin hires a deranged super soldier, Nuke, to go after Daredevil. Also featuring the Kingpin, Foggy Nelson, Glorianna O’Breen and Ben Urich, plus the “Devil’s Advocate” letters page. 75 cents, 36 pages.

This is the DIRECT EDITION: the lower left box shows a Spider-Man mask picture and no UPC barcode (the newsstand version has a barcode in that spot).

This is a raw, unslabbed copy. RoboGrader gave it a predicted CGC grade of 9.0 VF/NM (RoboGrade score 9) with Off-White to White pages. It has a bright, glossy cover, sharp front corners and a tight, flat spine, with very slight softness at two back-cover corners noted in the condition section above. Please review the RoboGrader image and all listing photos, which show the exact book you will receive.

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