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 ten stories on the countdown!

Enjoy!

20. "Gangwar!" (Daredevil #170-172)

Frank Miller and Klaus Janson introduce a number of momentous additions to the world of Daredevil with this storyline. This is the first time that Daredevil ever met Wilson Fisk, as Miller successfully adopts the Kingpin as part of the Daredevil mythos so smoothly that it feels like the character was ALWAYS there, and not just added to the book nearly twenty years into the series' run. In additon, Bullseye becomes Kingpin's head assassin in this story, which is about the Kingpin fighting a gang war to take back control of New York City's organized crime. Daredevil is particularly haunted by Bullseye's involvement in this war (he is fighting for the other side), since Daredevil recently saved Bullseye's life, so to see him go right back to killing is truly nightmarish for Matt.

The Kingpin was sucked back in when his opponents kidnapped his wife, in an attempt to take him out. He stops them, but at the same time, his wife is seemingly killed. Check out how Fisk deals with his foes (as well as a surprise traitor)...

Man, Miller sure knows how to lay out a page, doesn't he?

The story ends with a Daredevil/Bullseye confrontation that has an interesting ending, as Miller fully explores the grey nature of Daredevil's interactions with the Kingpin in this story.

19. "Parts of a Hole" (Daredevil Vol.2 #9-15)

Written by David Mack with artwork by Joe Quesada, David Ross, Rob Haynes and Jimmy Palmiotti, this story introduced Maya Lopez, a deaf woman who Matt falls for, giving his life some new meaning in the wake of Karen Page's murder. However, what he doesn't know is that Maya Lopez has been manipulated by the Kingpin into believing that Daredevil murdered her father. Decked out as the vigilante Echo (she has a big white handprint on her face, to echo the bloody handprint her father left as he died), she has photographic reflexes, similar to the villain Taskmaster. So she can echo anyone's skills that she studies. She is also a highly trained athlete, so that allows her to implement the skills she studies. So when she takes on Daredevil, it is tough for Matt, as he instantly recognizes her (she isn't exactly wearing much of a disguise), so how does he handle fighting the woman who he has fallen for?

Joe Quesada did a wonderful job on the art for the issues he did for this story.

18. "Child's Play" (Daredevil #183-184)

In a lot of ways, the hook in this story is the fact that Matt Murdock's senses have led him astray. Not knowing that a bad guy has a pacemaker, Matt believes him when he lies about being a drug dealer. So when the Punisher starts hunting the guy down, Daredevil is going out of his way to save the bad guy. In the end, Daredevil realizes the truth but still values life enough to protect the bad guy from the Punisher, leading to an epic showdown - will Daredevil shoot the Punisher to STOP the Punisher?

This was a controversial two-parter about drugs in schools that was originally supposed to appear before Miller even began his original run on Daredevil, but Marvel held up over fears about the Comics Code.

Read on to the next page for #17-14!

17. "Last Rites" (Daredevil #297-300)

Talk about being tossed into the deep end! D.G. Chichester's first story arc as the new writer on Daredevil served as a sort of reboot of the book, resolving all of Ann Nocenti's open storylines as well as walking back the changes from Frank Miller's Born Again story, as Daredevil works with a federal prosecutor to take down the Kingpin...

Chichester does a good job exploring the Kingpin's origins as his whole world falls apart around him. At the same time, though, he also does strong work exploring what it is like to be on the other side of something like this. After seeing the Kingpin systematically destroy Matt Murdock's life in Born Again, does Matt Murdock really have it in him to do the same thing to another human being? It's pretty trying on one's soul, and Chichester explores that cost nicely. Lee Weeks and Al Williamson are excellent on the artwork for the storyline.

16. "End of Days" (Daredevil: End of Days #1-8)

Written by Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack with art by Klaus Janson and Bill Sienkiewicz (with occasional painted pages by Mack), End of Days is a striking Citizen Kane riff with Ben Urich plating the Jerry Thompson, as he tries to piece together the meaning of Daredevil's final words, "Mapone." It is a decade or so into the future and Daredevil has been beaten to death by Bullsye. By examining his death, we get to learn more about Matt Murdock's life and, of course, the lives of the various people who have crossed his paths over the years and learn of their last interaction with Daredevil, people like the Punisher, Black Widow, Typhoid Mary, Elektra and, in this sequence, Maya Lopez...

The mystery of who the fellow running around in the Daredevil costume is the other major mystery of the book. Bendis and Mack make a shocking narrative choice at the end of #7 that I found quite bold.

15. "The King of Hell's Kitchen" (Daredevil Vol.2 #56-60)

This was a very clever storyline where Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev deal with the repurcussions of having made Daredevil the new Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen. The theory is that during all of Bendis' run up until this point, Matt was basically still dealing with the death of Karen Page back in the first story arc of this volume. That is not to say that Bendis is necessarily agreeing with Ben Urich that Matt suffered a nervous breakdown, per se, but that he definitely is still dealing with Karen's death and that is affecting all of his actions since. That's an inventive approach for the Matt Murdock character and I was really impressed that Bendis came up with that for this arc. This story also deals with Matt Murdock slowly but surely being forced to embrace his superhero identity after a year of "just" being the Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen. It's so rare to see a superhero say, basically, "I screwed up," and yet that's the basis for this storyline. Very cool stuff. Plus you get to see Maleev draw some awesome superhero action as Matt and his hero friends defend Hell's Kitchen from the Yakuza, who had decided to take over from Matt...

In a lot of ways, THIS is the climax of Bendis' run on Daredevil, with everything else being the falling action and the denouement.

14. "The Murdock Papers" (Daredevil Vol.2 #76-81)

Speaking of denouement, that would be "The Murdock Papers," the final storyline of Bendis and Maleev's run, as the Kingpin shows up to offer the FBI quite a deal. In exchange for immunity, he will deliver "the Murdock papers," proof positive that Matt Murdock is Daredevil. The FBI had been embarrassed for quite a while trying to prove it, so even though the deal is a messed up one, they accept it. This then leads to Daredevil trying to find those papers first, with the help of his former loves, Elektra and Black Widow...

But is the Kingpin playing a whole other kind of game? This storyline managed to both wrap up Bendis and Maleev's run while giving incoming writer Ed Brubaker one heck of a place to start off his own run on the book.

Read on to the next page for #13-11!

13. "Underboss" (Daredevil Vol.2 #26-31)

The beginning of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev's epic Daredevil run begins with a simple question, asked by one of Wilson Fisk's underbosses, "Why are we putting up with the Kingpin's weird obsession with Daredevil?" Bendis has a good time throughout the arc (which is filled with flashbacks) dealing with a "normal" gangster's reaction to how Wilson Fisk does things in this rather abnormal world of superheroes and blind guys fighting crime...

Silke forms a coup against the Kingpin, and they seemingly murder him, which leads to a whole new set of circumstances for Daredevil, who had become so accustomed to dealing with the Kingpin that a different approach was throwing him for a loop. Essentially it is a matter of the devil you know versus the devil you don't. The devil you don't know can pull crazy stuff like sending Nitro to kill you while you're in open court. The story does not end well for Silke, but it really doesn't end well for Daredevil, whose entire existence is now thrown out of whack.

12. "In Mortal Combat With...Sub-Mariner" (Daredevil Vol.1 #7)

This epic Wally Wood and Stan Lee joint sees Namor, the Sub-Mariner, decide to sue the human race for their treatment of Namor's people. Namor is arrested as soon as he shows himself, but Matt agrees to represent him and has Namor agree to stay in prison while the case is being settled. However, the evil Attuma is using Namor's absence to take over control of Atlantis. So Namor can't stick around. The United States military tries to keep him in New York City, but that is not going to go well. Daredevil figures that only he can prevent a massive battle in New York City will only hurt innocents, so he decides that the only way to save lives is for him to fight Namor and force Namor to retreat away from the city. Sadly for Daredevil, this is Namor we're talking about here and not an entire team of X-Men, so he has no chance of defeating him. But in classic Marvel underdog fashion, Daredevil keeps at it, earning Namor's respect...

What an amazing sequence.

11. "The Typhoid Mary Saga" (Daredevil #254-257, 259-263)

In the Typhoid Mary saga, writer Ann Nocenti (along with artists John Romita Jr. and Al Williamson) does an interesting job of tearing down Matt Murdock's life, only this time, unlike Born Again, it is Matt himself who contributes to his downfall. Typhoid Mary is a mutant with pyrokinesis, but she also has a split personality. So in her sweet, innocent personality, she falls in love with Matt Murdock and he is drawn to her, as well, even though he is in a relationship with Karen Page.

In the more dominant, evil persona, Typhoid Mary is hired by Kingpin to destroy Daredevil, and she does so, both physically and mentally.

Typhoid Mary was a fascinating addition to the Daredevil mythos by Nocenti, Romita and Williamson. The action scenes (where Typhoid Mary sets a group of villains after Daredevil) are handled really well but the most devastating thing is how Matt's own actions destroy what he had built with Karen. Rough stuff.