In honor of the Daredevil's brand-new TV series, we're counting down your picks for the fifty greatest Daredevil stories.

Here are the next four stories on the countdown!

Enjoy!

10. "Ikari" (Daredevil Vol.3 #23-27)

Mark Waid and Chris Samnee deliver the culmination of the first two years of Waid's run with this epic tale of revenge. Right from the beginning of Waid's run, some mysterious bad guy seemed to be behind a lot of the bad stuff in Daredevil's life. In this arc, we finally find out who it is - it's BULLSEYE! And working for Bullseye is a new bad guy, Ikari, who has the same powers as Daredevil! Ikari is kicking Daredevil's ass when Matt realizes that he can stop Ikari, because of something he knows about their shared powers. But don't be so sure, Matt...

How EPIC was the "Try the red one" reveal? The following issue is tremendous, as Waid and Samnee do marvelous work with Matt's paranoia over Ikari's threats. And then, of course, there's the awesome twist when Matt finally confronts Bullseye. Waid leads the reader all the way one way before pulling the rug out from underneath them (but in a good way). And Samnee's art is clearly fantastic, as you can see from the above sequence.

9. "Yellow" (Daredevil: Yellow #1-6)

Daredevil: Yellow was the first of a series of color-themed mini-series by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale spotlighting the early days of prominent Marvel heroes. In this story, they detail the early days of Daredevil's career, back when he wore the yellow costume. Tim Sale's artwork is truly sublime, and Loeb gives him a striking story. Check out this sequence where Daredevil gets his revenge on the man who ordered his father's murder, but also reveals his superhero name for the first time...

Powerful work there.

Loeb cleverly turns Daredevil's early days into a mix between an action story and a romantic comedy, as the whole story is wrapped around Matt Murdock reminiscing about his lost love, Karen Page (the whole story is narrated through a letter from Matt to Karen).

Read on to the next page for #8-7!

8. "Guardian Devil" (Daredevil Vol.2 #1-8)

Kevin Smith, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti brought Daredevil back to prominence with this eight-issue run based around Daredevil being forced to reconsider his religious beliefs as a baby shows up who some bad guys try to convince Daredevil is the Anti-Christ. Karen Page has contracted HIV and a devious fellow convinces her that the baby is the cause of her illness. Matt turns to his mother, who is now a nun, and Smith gets to do a lot of character work...

The whole thing turns out to be a ruse by a villain who is intent on making Daredevil kill him. Will Matt be able to resist the impulse, even after someone close to him is murdered (someone close to Matt is murdered. It must be a Tuesday).

This comic is, in a lot of ways, the birth of the modern Marvel Universe, as Daredevil was one of four books that Joe Quesada's Event Studios were given control of to relaunch. They did such a good job that Quesada was soon named the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics period.

7. "Hardcore" (Daredevil Vol.2 #46-50)

In this story, written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Alex Maleev), Matt Murdock, who just had to deal with the trouble of being “outed” as Daredevil, is suddenly besieged by bad guys at the behest of Wilson Fisk, who is attempting to make a move to return as the Kingpin of New York after surviving the events of Underboss.

With Typhoid Mary and Bullseye attacking Matt on top of his whole secret identity situation (not to mention falling in love with a new woman, the lovely Milla Donovan), Kingpin has Matt distracted, which is just what Kingpin planned.

However, what the Kingpin doesn't realize is that you can only end a guy so far before he breaks, but when he breaks, it does not mean that he FALLS. It might just mean that he breaks free of typical restraints that he places upon himself. In other words, Daredevil decides that this time he just has to beat the hell out of the Kingpin....

You might notice that this fight has a bunch of different artists. Since it took place in the "anniversary issue" #50, it featured work from past Daredevil artists (in order) Gene Colan, Lee Weeks, Klaus Janson, John Romita, Joe Quesada, Mike Avon Oeming and David Mack.

Daredevil wins the fight (as he typically does) but what he does NEXT changes things dramatically and shapes the rest of Bendis and Maleev's run.