Daredevil #22

Nov 1966 · Marvel · 0.12 USD

📊 ~36,102 copies sold its debut month

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“The Tri-Man Lives!”

★ 1st appearance — Tri-Man

About this Issue

Daredevil #22 marks the first appearance of the Tri-Man, an android assembled from the combined abilities of three criminals — one of the more inventive villain concepts Stan Lee and Gene Colan introduced during their celebrated run together on the title. The issue also deepens the early Silver Age Daredevil mythos by weaving together several recurring antagonists — the Masked Marauder, the Gladiator, and the Owl — within the framework of the Maggia crime cartel, making it an early example of Marvel's shared-universe continuity building across multiple books. Its opening pages directly continue threads from the previous Owl storyline while simultaneously launching a new two-part conflict, demonstrating the serialized, soap-opera pacing that distinguished Marvel's Silver Age output. As the third issue of Gene Colan's now-legendary run on the character, it also helps establish the darker, more atmospheric visual identity Colan brought to Daredevil, pulling the series away from the brighter superhero aesthetic of its earliest issues.

In "The Tri-Man Lives!", Daredevil faces a terrifying new threat as the Masked Marauder and the Gladiator unleash the Tri-Android—a fusion of three master criminals powered by stolen skills. With Gene Colan’s dynamic art and Frank Giacoia’s sharp inks on the cover, this 1966 classic sees the Devil of Manhattan caught in a deadly game of criminal supremacy.

writer Stan Lee · artist Gene Colan · inker Giacoia · inker Dick Ayers · colorist Stan Goldberg · letterer Sam Rosen · letterer Morrie Kuramoto · cover Gene Colan, Frank Giacoia

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CGC 9.8 · 3 in census $3,769

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CGC 9.0 · 31 in census $161

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History

The issue was written and edited by Stan Lee, penciled by Gene Colan, and inked by Frank Giacoia, with colors by Stan Goldberg and lettering split between Sam Rosen (pages 1–12) and Morrie Kuramoto (pages 13–20). It carried a cover date of November 1966 but went on sale in September 1966, consistent with Marvel's standard two-month lead on cover dates at the time. Daredevil #22 was only Colan's third issue on the series — he had taken over from John Romita with issue #20 — and it falls early in what would become an essentially unbroken 81-issue stretch of Colan art from #20 through #100. The story's villain coalition is structurally tied to events in X-Men #23, in which Count Nefaria's imprisonment left the Maggia without a leader, a plot thread Lee wove across multiple Marvel titles to create cross-title continuity.

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of the Tri-Man (Tri-Android), an android built by the Masked Marauder (Frank Farnum) using the absorbed abilities — strength, speed, and cunning — of three recruited criminals: the Mangler, the Dancer, and the Brain.
Story title: 'The Tri-Man Lives!' Cover date: November 1966; on-sale date: September 1, 1966.
Creative team: Stan Lee (writer/editor), Gene Colan (pencils), Frank Giacoia (inks), Stan Goldberg (colors), Sam Rosen and Morrie Kuramoto (letters).
The Owl (Leland Owlsley) and Gladiator (Melvin Potter) both appear, with the Owl limited to a cameo; the Masked Marauder and Gladiator serve as the primary villains scheming to take over the leaderless Maggia — a power vacuum established in X-Men #23.
The issue is a direct continuation of the Owl storyline from the previous issue and ends on a cliffhanger — the Marauder threatens to kill Foggy Nelson and Karen Page — resolving in Daredevil #23.
The Tri-Man later returned in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #26–28 (1978), crossing over into the Spider-Man corner of the Marvel Universe.
Reprinted as the lead story in Marvel Adventures #1 (December 1975), the first issue of a dedicated Daredevil reprint series.
Subsequently collected in: Essential Daredevil Vol. 1 (2002, black and white); Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil Vol. 3 (2005, collects #22–32 and Annual #1); Daredevil Omnibus Vol. 1 (2017); and Daredevil Epic Collection Vol. 2: Mike Murdock Must Die! (2018, collects #22–41).