Daredevil (1964 series) #220

A very drunk and distraught Heather Glenn calls Matt Murdock at 3 in the morning saying she needs his help or she’s going to die! Despite having reservations, Matt changes to Daredevil and makes his way out into the dense fog covering the New York night. As he nears Heather’s apartment building, he hears a domestic argument happening in a nearby apartment that sounds like it could turn violent. Deciding that Heather takes priority, he enters her apartment to find her passed out! She quickly wakes up and admits that she lied about being in danger in order to get him to rush over. Still drinking heavily, she claims that she’s been so lonely and afraid she they broke up. Matt tells her that she’ll have to figure that out herself and leaves her to her loneliness. He notices a strange man smoking on the street below, when suddenly gunshots ring out! He rushes to the apartment where the domestic dispute was happening, to find the wife now dead. He quickly hunts down her husband in the fog and brutally knocks him out, leaving him for the police.

Matt gets back to his apartment to find Heather calling him once again. He chews her out, telling her that seeing her prevented him from saving an innocent woman, and tears his phone right out of the wall in frustration. In the morning, Matt heads to his office where Becky tells him that he has seven more missed calls from Heather and that Foggy headed out after she called him too. The phone then rings. It’s Foggy telling Matt that something terrible has happened. Matt heads to Heather’s apartment where he discovers the awful truth that she’s hanged herself. For hours after that, Matt stumbles through the fog outside, muttering to himself about all the ways he failed Heather. How he should have gone to her when she called. How he should have treated her better during their relationship, putting all of the blame on himself. Matt then suddenly realizes that he smelled something in Heather’s apartment that shouldn’t have been there. He heads back to her apartment where he discovers some cigarette butts, the same as the ones the strange man on the street had been smoking. Matt then discovers that Heather’s safe is empty and makes the conclusion that she was actually murdered!

Matt goes to see Foggy in the middle of the night and asks him about Heather’s affairs that they handled after her father died. Foggy recalls some patents that a man named Silvio Gulio tried to buy, which seems as good a lead as any to Matt. As Daredevil, he heads to Josie’s to get some information from Turk on the security at Gulio’s building. Armed with that information, he sneaks his way into Gulio’s building and overhears him talking about the stolen patent. Daredevil confronts him and quickly takes out his two associates while Gulio escapes to the roof. Gulio tries to surprise Daredevil in the fog, but DD brutally incapacitates him. Later, Gulio confesses to the police about breaking into Heather’s apartment and stealing her patent, but says that Heather was already dead when they got there. Matt can tell he isn’t lying. The next day, Foggy shows Matt Heather’s note that she mailed to his old address, just saying that she’s sorry. Foggy tries to tell Matt that he couldn’t help not loving Heather as much as she loved him, but Matt still feels responsible for her death. He opens the window to let the fog in, saying that it just…seems right.