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Frank Miller and Bill Sienkewicz, Elektra: Assassin, 8-issue graphic novel (New York: Marvel, 1986-1987; reprinted in single-volume 2012). [NB: some content is called by the publisher "explicit".]

A creation of Frank Miller's in his Daredevil series, Elektra is overtly named after the Greek mythological figure, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Elektra Natchios is a mysterious character in the Daredevil numbers, but she is resuscitated by Miller and Sienkewicz in her own series in the mid-1980s.

Cover-art blurb sets the tone: "Is she simply mad? ... Is the fierce, pitch-black world she inhabits her own pathetic invention? ... Are her enemies phantoms of a psychopathic delusion, a sad woman's fever dreams? Are the shadows empty after all? ... She is a whirlwind, a goddess, a demon, a killing machine. She is Ninja. She is death itself." (Graphitti cover, 1987)
Miller (and Sienkewicz) have taken the essential Electra — a character bent upon revenge, even unto matricide — and named the ultimate assassin after her.