Lady Bullseye Fact — November 3, 2026

Today's Fact

Retirement in Spain lasted exactly as long as it took the Hand to find the address and send its politest murderer.

LADY BULLSEYE MURDERED THE KINGPIN'S NEW FAMILY IN SPAIN — JUST TO SEND DAREDEVIL A MESSAGE AND DRAG FISK BACK TO WAR!

The Featured Fact

Wilson Fisk had done the unthinkable: he retired. Grieving Vanessa, he settled on Spain's Costa da Morte, fell for a local woman named Marta, and was teaching her children Adriana and Jaime English when the Hand's Plan B arrived in Daredevil Vol. 2 #116 (2009). Lady Bullseye directed the attack that murdered Marta and both children, then had Fisk poisoned, paralysed and run through with swords for good measure.

She left him alive on purpose, and told him exactly whose fault it all was: Daredevil's. The cruelty was a delivery mechanism. The Hand had offered Matt Murdock its leadership and been refused, so Plan B manufactured the one weapon guaranteed to hurt him, a Kingpin with nothing left to lose, aimed at Hell's Kitchen and told precisely who to blame for the ashes of his second life.

It worked with horrible efficiency. Fisk burned Marta's house, flew back to New York, and walked straight into the war the Hand wanted, eventually standing before Lord Hirochi himself. Lady Bullseye had not been sent to Spain to kill a retired crime boss. She had been sent to reload him.

Why It's Obscure

Retirement on the coast of death is only the start of it.

Costa da Morte

Retirement on the coast of death — Fisk settles where Vanessa once loved to travel, builds a quiet life with Marta, and teaches her two children English and Japanese.

Plan B

The leadership refused, the weapon built — Daredevil declines the Hand in Daredevil #115, so Lord Hirochi's faction activates its backup: provoke the Kingpin instead.

Issue #116

Two swords and a message — the Hand murders Marta, Adriana and Jaime, poisons and paralyses Fisk, and Lady Bullseye informs him that Daredevil is to blame.

The return

Reloaded and aimed — Fisk burns the house, returns to New York as planned, and later kills Hirochi himself when finally brought before the man who ordered Spain.

Gallery

The Spain attack in the assassin's own words, her formal portrait with Daredevil below, and her portrait in the field.

Lady Bullseye holding bloody swords over the fallen Kingpin, telling him to ask Daredevil — **Ask Daredevil**The panel that is the whole scheme in one line: Lady Bullseye stands over the fallen Kingpin in Spain, twin blades still wet, and delivers her message: ask Daredevil.

Lady Bullseye portrait with her target mask above Daredevil and other Hand figures — **The woman who reloads kingpins**Cover-style portrait of Lady Bullseye in her target mask, with Daredevil pictured beneath her, the man every one of her atrocities was addressed to.

Lady Bullseye in her black and white costume holding a blade — **Field kit**Lady Bullseye in her split black-and-white costume, the Hand's most disrespectful traditionalist, photographed mid-assignment.

Sources

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Bullpen Bulletins

Lady Bullseye (Earth-616) — Marvel DatabaseHistory confirming the Spain trip for Plan B in Daredevil #116, the killing of Kingpin's new girlfriend and her children, the brutal stabbing, and the message for Daredevil.
Daredevil (Vol. 2) #116 — SpiderFan.orgContemporary review of the Return of the King prologue: Fisk's year with Marta on the Costa da Morte, the Hand attack, and Lady Bullseye framing Daredevil for the massacre.
Lady Bullseye — Multiversal OmnipediaBiography entry detailing the Spain sequence, the murdered family including Marta, Adriana and Jaime, and Fisk left poisoned and paralysed by her blades.