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| Karen Page | |
| Aliases: | Paige Angel |
| Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Type: | Secretary |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Relatives: | Paxton Page (father) Penelope Page (mother) |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Died: | 1999 (publishing year) |
| First: | Daredevil, Vol. 1 #1 |
| Final: | Daredevil, Vol. 2 #5 |
Karen Page is a fictional secretary featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a supporting character in the Daredevil family of comic book titles and first appeared in Daredevil #1 in 1964. She made many appearances over the span of three decades, but was ultimately killed off by Daredevil's nemesis Bullseye in Daredevil, Volume 2 #5 in 1999.
Biography[]
Karen Page worked as a secretary for Foggy Nelson and Matt Murdock at the Nelson & Murdock law offices in Manhattan. Being a young and attractive woman, she earned the favor of both men, who both tried to win her affections while still maintaining a professional relationship.
A costumed supervillain known as the Purple Man used his pheromone control powers to seduce Karen Page. When his potential crime spree was threatened by the presence of Daredevil, the Purple Man tried to force Karen to take her own life by leaping off the top of the Ritz Plaza Hotel. Fortunately, Daredevil arrived just in time to save her. [1]
Foggy Nelson tried to impress Karen by dressing up in a costume in the hopes of convincing her that he was actually Daredevil. The costume maker was a man named Melvin Potter, who was not amused by Foggy's efforts to make an impression, so he donned his own costume and became the Gladiator. Karen was not nearly swept up in the ensuing battle until the real Daredevil showed up to defeat Gladiator. [2]
When her career as an actress bottomed out, Karen turned to drugs. She became hopelessly addicted to heroin, and ended up buying product through dealers employed by Wilson Fisk. In order to secure her next fix, she did the unthinkable: she sold Wilson Fisk information revealing that Daredevil was actually Matt Murdock. [3] Fisk used this information to destroy Murdock's career, leaving him a homeless vagrant on the streets of New York.
Karen found herself living in Mexico for a time, but prostituted herself to a man named Paulo Scorsese for a ride back to the United States. [4]
Karen came to care for an orphaned baby, which some believed was actually the Antichrist. The assassin known as Bullseye had been hired to acquire the child, and tracked it to the Clinton Mission Shelter where Karen had been keeping guard over it. This ultimately led into a fight between Bullseye and Daredevil. Bullseye picked up Daredevil's billy club and hurled it at him with intense force. Karen threw herself in the way of the projectile to protect Matt, and the billy club speared her through the chest, causing a mortal injury. As she laid dying in Matt's arms, her final words to him were, "I'll miss you". [5]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Karen Page was created by writer Stan Lee, artist Bill Everett and inker Steve Ditko.
- Karen Page is not the first of Matt Murdock's girlfriends to meet a nasty end at the hands of Bullseye. Matt's college sweetie Elektra Natchios was stabbed through the heart by Bullseye, but she got better. [6]
- Foggy Nelson once had an interest in Karen and tried to impress her by convincing her that he was actually Daredevil. Foggy's plan backfired however when his scheme landed him into a fight with the Gladiator. The incident proved harrowing enough for Page that she collapsed from exhaustion and had to be taken to the hospital. [7]
- While living as a drug addict, Karen Page sold Daredevil's civilian identity to agents of the Kingpin in Daredevil #227. This was the beginning of the "Born Again" storyline.
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External Links[]
- Karen Page at MDP
- Karen Page at Wikipedia
- Karen Page at Comic Vine
- Karen Page at the Marvel Universe