Eks almanah #417
Eks almanah #417 sits squarely in the middle of one of the most consequential editorial runs that Dečje novine — the largest comics publisher of the former Yugoslavia — ever undertook: the systematic serialization of Frank Miller's celebrated Daredevil tenure for a Serbo-Croatian-speaking audience. By reprinting Daredevil #170 in September 1984, the issue delivered Miller and Klaus Janson's noir-inflected storytelling to readers across all six Yugoslav republics who had no other legal access to the material. As part of a broader wave of American Marvel content that Dečje novine licensed and localized throughout the early-to-mid 1980s, issues like #417 helped shape a generation of Yugoslav comics readers whose taste for sophisticated superhero narrative would otherwise have gone unserved.
"Kingpin mora umrijeti" is a standout issue from 1984, featuring a pivotal moment in the Daredevil mythos with Frank Miller’s sharp storytelling and bold artwork, rendered in collaboration with Klaus Janson. When the retired Kingpin sends his wife to New York to enlist Nelson and Murdock, a dangerous trap unfolds as the mob captures Vanessa to draw him back—setting off a tense clash between Daredevil and Bullseye. The cover by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson captures the story’s grim urgency, a 40 YUM comic that remains a must-have for collectors.
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Eks almanah launched in April 1975 under Dečje novine, based in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, and ran for 538 issues through March 1989 — appearing in various formats including soft, card, and hardcovers, both stapled and bound. Dečje novine held near-exclusive rights to publish Marvel and DC Comics content in Yugoslavia, making Eks almanah the principal conduit for American superhero material in that market. Issue #417, dated 11 September 1984, falls in the heart of the run's mid-period, when the anthology was actively working through Miller-era Daredevil stories that had been published in the United States three years earlier.
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- Published 11 September 1984 by Dečje novine (Gornji Milanovac) as part of the long-running Eks almanah anthology series (1975 series, issue #417).
- Reprints Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #170 [Direct edition], a Frank Miller/Klaus Janson issue from the acclaimed Miller run on the title.
- Dečje novine was the largest comics publisher in the former Yugoslavia and held near-exclusive rights to publish Marvel and DC material in that territory.
- Eks almanah was a multi-format anthology series that ran from April 1975 to March 1989, totalling 538 issues, and carried a wide variety of licensed international comics in each issue.
- The series published in multiple physical formats (softcover, card cover, hardcover; stapled and bound), reflecting the anthology's evolution across its 14-year run.
- The run's coverage of Frank Miller's Daredevil was spread across multiple issues; for instance, Daredevil #179 appeared in Eks almanah #403 (May 1984) and Daredevil #181 material appeared in #446–447 (April–May 1985), placing #417 mid-sequence in that serialization.
- Because Yugoslavia was a single-language market spanning six republics, each issue of Eks almanah served readers across the entire country regardless of republic — a distribution footprint no Western European reprint edition could match.
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↩ Reprints Daredevil #170 (1981)
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