As Daredevil winds his way across the city, investigating a series of mysterious kidnappings and the murders of the witnesses, Captain America is briefed on a new assignment by Nick Fury. Seems that Daredevil’s old enemy the Death-Stalker, who had the ability to pass between dimensions and wore gloves that gave him the touch of death, may be alive despite having been killed in DD #158 when he materialized into a tombstone. SHIELD scientists have discovered that a hole has been ripped in time; now people are dying by the death touch. Cap’s mission is to locate the temporally displaced Death-Stalker and return him to his own time before there is a disaster in the continuum.
Meanwhile, DD learns from the police, by a woman whose son has been kidnapped by the Death-Stalker, that his old foe is mysteriously alive. The villain, however, having been hurled into the future and learning of his demise, has taken several hostages as bait in a trap for his killer Daredevil. The Man without Fear arrives at the cemetery and is sprayed in the face with a hallucinogenic drug which makes DD "see" everyone as monsters. DD, determined to end this evil once for all, intends to beat his enemy to death but Cap arrives and stops him. But DD, thinking Cap is some sort of fiend, attacks him. The two heroes fight, with Cap trying his best not to hurt his opponent, finally injecting him with a drug intended for Death-Stalker. This cures DD of his madness but the villain has an ultimatum. To prove that Daredevil is no real hero, Death-Stalker demands that he allow the Stalker to touch him or the hostages, starting with the boy Sean, will die. DD calmly walks up to the villain and extends his hand. As Death-Stalker reaches out, Cap slings his shield, DD leaps up and the baddie is flattened. Cap warns DD about the temporal disaster that might happen if Death-Stalker died here. The madman, hearing this, touches himself with his deadly gloves—and vanishes, leaving the universe intact. The heroes release the captives, and the villain finds himself back in his own timestream unable to comprehend why he feels defeated.