ELIZABETH DAWES STERLING

Real Name: Elizabeth Dawes Sterling

Identity/Class: Human

Occupation: Unrevealed

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Her robots

Enemies: Daredevil (Matt Murdock)

Known Relatives: Philip Wallace Sterling (Death-Stalker)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: New York City, New York

First Appearance: Daredevil I#208 (July, 1984)

Powers/Abilities: Elizabeth Dawes Sterling is a wealthy heiress who used her vast fortunes to build death traps and explosive robots that looked like little girls. She set these death traps to activate upon her death.

Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Brown
Hair: White

History:
(Daredevil I#208 (fb) - BTS) - Elizabeth Dawes Sterling was the descendant of a very rich family line in America. She raised her son, Philip Wallace, knowing he was her only hope of furthering her family line, but Phillip eventually became the Death-Stalker, committing crimes and fighting Daredevil. When Death-Stalker was seemingly killed in battle with Daredevil, Elizabeth used her vast fortunes to convert her family home in Riverdale (in the Bronx) into a massive death-trap, filled with robots, snakes, and explosive devices. In her designs, she primarily used the research of Professor Marvin Minsky, who specialized in telepresence at the artificial intelligence lab at M.I.T. She pre-recorded a message for Daredevil, then assigned robots to lure him into the house. Upon her death, Elizabeth activated the death-trap.

(Daredevil I#208 - BTS) - Daredevil was lured into the home by a robotic girl, and he narrowly survived the death traps. He saw Elizabeth's recorded message, then escaped her final trap, a massive explosion. More robot girls followed Matt to work the next morning.

(Daredevil I#209 - BTS) - Matt battled the robot girls, destroying a few single robots before destroying the rest en masse at the ruins of Elizabeth's home. Johnny Squarejohn was killed in the final explosion.

Comments: Created by Harlan Ellison, Arthur Byron Cover, David Mazzucchelli, and Danny Bulanadi.

Marvin Minsky is a real person. Read more about him here!

Profile by Chadman.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Elizabeth Dawes Sterling has no known connections to:

• Sterling, insudtrial spy @ Black Widow: The Coldest War
• Sterling of Counter Earth (Franklin Richards), Remnants, formed from residual energy, left by passing of Silver Surfer @ Heroes Reborn: Remnants
• Miss Sterling, attended Black Knight Museum @ New Excalibur#10
• Sid Sterling, agent to the stars @ Avengers I#208
• Sol Sterling, wealthy movie producer, financially backed Armed Response @ Wonder Man II#16
• Vince Sterling, aka Brother Brimstone, murdered Brother Brimstone (Ross Archer) and took over identity as real-life villain, died in replica of tar pits @ Daredevil I#65
• any other character with a similar name

(Daredevil I#208 (fb) - BTS) - A robotics expert at M.I.T., Marvin Minsky developed the theory of telepresence, and Elizabeth Dawes Sterling used these theories in a death-trap she designed. (See comments)

--Daredevil I#208 ([Daredevil I#208 (fb)]

robots (Daredevil I#208 (fb) - BTS) - Elizabeth Dawes Sterling used her vast fortunes to convert her family home in Riverdale (in the Bronx) into a massive death-trap, filled with robots, snakes, and explosive devices. In her designs, the primarily used the research of Professor Marvin Minsky, who specialized in telepresence at the artificial intelligence lab at M.I.T. (Daredevil I#208) - Daredevil was lured into the home by a robotic girl, and he narrowly survived the death traps. He saw Elizabeth's recorded message, then escaped her final trap, a massive explosion. More robot girls followed Matt to work the next morning. (Daredevil I#209) - Matt battled the robot girls, destroying a few single robots before destroying the rest en masse at the ruins of Elizabeth's home. Johnny Squarejohn was killed in the final explosion. --Daredevil I#208 ([Daredevil I#208 (fb)], 208-209

images: (without ads)
Daredevil I#208, p19, pan3 (main)
Daredevil I#208, p19, pan6 (2nd)
Daredevil I#209, p20, pan1 (robot girls)

Appearances:
Daredevil I#208 (July, 1984) - Harlan Ellison, Arthur Byron Cover (writers), David Mazzucchelli (penciler), Danny Bulanadi (inker), Mike Higgins (editor)
Daredevil I#209 (August, 1984) - Arthur Byron Cover (writer), David Mazzucchelli (penciler), Danny Bulanadi (inker), Mike Higgins (editor)

First Posted: 02/10/2019
Last updated: 02/10/2019

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