Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

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Daredevil
Cover of Daredevil vol. 2, #100 (Oct 2007). Art by Lee Bermejo.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Daredevil #1 (April 1964)
Created by	Stan Lee Bill Everett
In-story information
Alter ego	Matthew Michael "Matt" Murdock
Team affiliations	S.H.I.E.L.D. The Chaste Defenders Marvel Knights
Partnerships	Black Widow
Notable aliases	Michael "Mike" Murdock
Abilities	Superhuman senses, echolocation, skilled Martial artist, peak human physical condition

Daredevil^[1] is a fictional superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input from Jack Kirby^[2] and first appeared in Daredevil #1 (April 1964).

Growing up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, Matt Murdock is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from an oncoming vehicle. Despite not being able to see anymore, the radioactive exposure heightens his remaining senses beyond normal human ability. His father, a boxer named Jack Murdock supports him as he grows up, though he is later killed by gangsters after refusing to throw a fight. After donning a dark red costume, Matt seeks out revenge against his father's killers as the superhero Daredevil, fighting against his many enemies including Bullseye and the Kingpin.^[1] Daredevil's nickname is "the Man Without Fear".^[3]

Although Daredevil had been home to the work of many legendary comic-book artists — Everett, Kirby, Wally Wood, John Romita, Sr., and Gene Colan, among others — Frank Miller's influential tenure on the title in the late 1970s and early 1980s is particularly remembered, having cemented the character as a popular and influential part of the Marvel Universe. Daredevil has since appeared in many various forms of media including several animated series, video games, merchandise and a 2003 feature-length film. Daredevil was named Empire's thirty-seventh greatest comic book character.^[4]

Contents 1 Publication history 1.1 1960s 1.2 1970s 1.3 1980s 1.4 1990s 1.5 2000s 2 Character attributes 2.1 Powers and abilities 3 Other versions 4 Reception 5 Supporting characters 6 In other media 6.1 Television 6.2 Film 6.3 Parodies 7 Merchandise 7.1 Video games 7.2 Toys 8 Awards 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

[edit] Publication history

[edit] 1960s

The character originally appeared in Daredevil #1, which was published in April 1964.^[1] Daredevil was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, though character-design input derived from Jack Kirby.^[2] When Everett turned in his first-issue pencils extremely late, Marvel production manager Sol Brodsky and Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko inked a large variety of different backgrounds, a "lot of backgrounds and secondary figures on the fly and cobbled the cover and the splash page together from Kirby's original concept drawing".^[5]

Writer Mark Evanier believed that Jack Kirby had originally designed the basic image of Daredevil's costume, though Everett modified it.^[2] The character's original costume designed was a combination of black, yellow and red, reminiscent of acrobat tights.^[1] Acclaimed writer-artist Wally Wood penciled issues #5-8 of Daredevil, introducing the modern, recognizable red costume in issue #7 of Daredevil.^[6] Kirby had come up with the idea of Daredevil's billy club.^[2]

Issue #12 began a brief run by Jack Kirby (layouts) and John Romita, Sr. The issue marked Romita's return to superhero penciling after a decade of working exclusively as a romance-comic artist for DC. Romita had felt he no longer wanted to pencil, in favor of being solely an inker. He recalled in 1999,

“

I had inked an Avengers job for Stan, and I told him I just wanted to ink. I felt like I was burned out as a penciller after eight years of romance work. I didn't want to pencil any more; in fact, I couldn't work at home any more — I couldn't discipline myself to do it. He said, 'Okay,' but the first chance he had he shows me this Daredevil story somebody had started and he didn't like it, and he wanted somebody else to do it.[7]

”

Romita later elaborated that "Stan showed me Dick Ayers' splash page for a Daredevil. He asked me, "What would you do with this page?" I showed him on a tracing paper what I would do, and then he asked me to do a drawing of Daredevil the way I would do it. I did a big drawing of Daredevil ... just a big, tracing-paper drawing of Daredevil swinging. And Stan loved it".^[8]

When Romita left to take over The Amazing Spider-Man, Lee gave Daredevil to what would be the character's first signature artist, Gene Colan, who began with issue #20 published in September 1966.^[9][10] Colan pencilled all but three issues through #100 (June 1973), plus the 1967 annual, followed by ten issues sprinkled from 1974-79. (He would return again, an established legend, for an eight-issue run in 1997).^[9] Contrary to most other cover artists, Colan (who also drew the covers to the series) would always reflect what was inside the content of the issue.^[11]

The first issue covered both the character's origins and his desire for revenge on the man who had killed his father, boxer "Battling Jack" Murdock, who raised young Matthew Murdock in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. Jack instills in Matt the importance of education and nonviolence with the aim of seeing his son become a better man than himself. In the course of saving a blind man from the path of an oncoming truck, Matt is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from the vehicle. The radioactive exposure heightens his remaining senses beyond normal human thresholds, enabling him to detect the shape and location of objects around him. In order to support his son, Jack Murdock returns to boxing and when he refuses to throw a fight is killed by gangsters. Adorned in a yellow and black costume made from his father's boxing robes and using his superhuman abilities, Matt confronts the killers as the superhero Daredevil.^[1] Daredevil would embark on a series of adventers involving such villains as the Owl, Stilt-Man, Gladiator, and the Enforcers. Several sub-plots involved romantic triangles and cases of mistaken identity. Matt reveals his secret identity to his girlfriend Karen Page in issue #57, although she leaves the series after the revelation proves too much for her.^[12] During this period, he meets Spider-Man, a character who would later be one of his greatest hero friends.^[13]

[edit] 1970s

In the 1970s, the title featured a double billing, co-starring Daredevil's girlfriend, the Black Widow. The narrative had Daredevil move to San Francisco for a time to live with the spy and super-heroine the Black Widow, and enters into a romantic relationship with her^[14] but she soon ends the relationship, fearing that playing "sidekick" to Daredevil is sublimating her identity.^[15] Murdock returns to Hell's Kitchen. During this time, the series' writers included Gerry Conway, Steve Gerber and Chris Claremont. Artists included Bob Brown and Don Heck.

Comics-artist legend Wally Wood, following kidney failure and the loss of vision in one eye, returned to the character he helped define, inking Miller's cover of Daredevil #164 (May 1980). It was one of Wood's final assignments before his death in 1981.

[edit] 1980s

The modern definition of Daredevil began in 1979 with Frank Miller's entrance on the title. Miller's first contributions were as an artist, where he imbued a new dynamism and a dramatically different visual style. The series' tone became that of noir with Hell's Kitchen itself playing a more prominent role.

With issue #168, Miller additionally became the series' writer, and the comic underwent a drastic metamorphosis. The most significant change was the introduction of Spider-Man villain Kingpin as Daredevil's new arch-nemesis. Until that point, Daredevil's enemies were primarily, though not exclusively, costumed villains. The Kingpin was a departure in that although he possessed extraordinary size, strength and fighting ability, his villainy came from his ruthless brilliance in running a criminal empire, rather than superpowers. The title still retained costumed antagonists — notably Bullseye and Elektra — but found its central theme to be one more grounded in reality: organized crime.

Miller also introduced ninjas into the Daredevil canon, bringing a greater focus on the martial arts aspect of Daredevil's fighting skills, and introducing the characters Stick and the Hand. This was a drastic change to a character once considered a swashbuckler. The focus of a ninja's control of the inner self served as a counterbalance to the emerging themes of anger and torment.

Daredevil encounters the assassin Bullseye for the first time, and the two battle each other.^[16] Eventually, Daredevil's secret identity is deduced by the reporter Ben Urich.^[17]

Daredevil encounters the Kingpin, who has hired his old flame Elektra as an assassin, and Daredevil battles her.^[18] He returns to his former mentor Stick for aid.^[19] Bullseye then murders Elektra in a fight to determine the better killer. Taking revenge, Daredevil drops Bullseye from a clothesline high above a street,^[20] Daredevil allies with the Punisher against drug pushers.^[21] Daredevil battles the Hand, and Elektra is briefly resurrected.^[22]

Miller's noir take on the character continued, even after he left (in 1983, after issue #191). However, successor Dennis O'Neil did not find the commercial success of his predecessor. In late 1985, Miller returned to the series, co-writing #226 with O'Neil, then writing the acclaimed "Daredevil: Born Again" storyline in #227-233 (Feb.-Aug. 1986), with artist David Mazzuchelli. Karen Page eventually returns as a heroin-addicted star of adult films, who sells Daredevil's secret identity for drug money. The Kingpin uses this information to destroy Murdock piece by piece: blowing up his house, ruining his reputation as a lawyer, getting him disbarred, menacing his personal life and nearly driving him insane.^[23] Matt suffers a nervous breakdown.^[24] Miller ends the story on a positive note, with Murdock reuniting with Karen Page as his sometime lover,^[25] and the mother he thought dead, now a nun, and resuming a less complicated life in Hell's Kitchen. ^[26]

A round-robin of creators contributed in the year that followed Born Again: writers Mark Gruenwald, Danny Fingeroth, Steve Englehart (under the pseudonym "John Harkness") and Ann Nocenti, and pencilers Steve Ditko, Barry Windsor-Smith, Louis Williams, Sal Buscema, Todd McFarlane, Keith Pollard,and Chuck Patton. Longshot co-creator Nocenti, who'd written #236, became the regular writer for a four-and-a-quarter year run of all but two issues from #238-291 (Jan. 1987 - April 1991). John Romita, Jr. joined as penciller from #250-282 (Jan. 1988 - Jul. 1990), and was generally inked by Al Williamson. The team specifically addressed societal issues, with Murdock, now running a non-profit urban legal center, confronting sexism, racism, and nuclear proliferation while fighting supervillains. Nocenti introduced the popular antagonist Typhoid Mary in issue #254.

[edit] 1990s

Daredevil's secret identity becomes public knowledge^[when?]. Forced to fake his own death and change his uniform to an armored "razor costume", Murdock undergoes one of his numerous breakdowns. The change does not last, and Daredevil soon returns to his traditional red costume, while Murdock finds a way to convince the world that he is not, in fact, secretly Daredevil (courtesy of a double).

Under writers Karl Kesel and later Joe Kelly, the book gained a lighter tone, with Daredevil returning to the lighthearted, wisecracking hero depicted by earlier writers. Matt and Foggy (who now knows of Matt's dual identities) join a law firm run by Foggy's mother, Rosalind Sharpe.

Frank Miller returned to the character and his origins with the 1993 five issue mini-series Daredevil: The Man Without Fear. With artist John Romita Jr, Miller expanded upon the characters beginnings and provide additional detail about the life and death of "Battling Jack" Murdock and Matt's first encounters with the Kingpin and Foggy Nelson.^[27] The role of Stick in the genesis of Daredevil was expanded, as was Murdock's doomed love affair with Elektra Natchios, the daughter of a Greek diplomat.

In 1998, Daredevil's numbering was rebooted, with the title "canceled" with issue #380 and revived a month later as part of the Marvel Knights imprint. Joe Quesada drew the new series, written by filmmaker Kevin Smith. Its first eight-issue story arc, "Guardian Devil" depicts Daredevil struggling to protect a child whom he is told could either be the Messiah or the Anti-Christ. Murdock experiences a crisis of faith exacerbated by the discovery that Karen Page has AIDS (later revealed to be a hoax), and her subsequent death at Bullseye's hands. ^[28]

After "Guardian Devil", Smith was succeeded by writer-artist David Mack, who contributed the seven-issue "Parts of a Hole" (#9-15). This arc introduces Maya Lopez, also known as Echo, a deaf martial artist. Mack brought independent-comics colleague Brian Michael Bendis to Marvel for the following arc, "Wake Up" (#16-19), which follows reporter Ben Urich as he investigates the aftereffects of a fight between Daredevil and an obscure old villain called Leapfrog. Following Mack and Bendis were Back to the Future screenwriter Bob Gale and artists Phil Winslade and David Ross for the story "Playing to the Camera". Mack continued to contribute covers.

[edit] 2000s

The 2001 miniseries Daredevil: Yellow presented another take on Daredevil's origins using letters written to Karen Page after her death as a narrative device. Here Page believes she is in love with both Daredevil and Murdock, and Nelson with Karen Page, resulting in a silent rivalry between the two men. The supervillains the Owl and the Purple Man are the antagonists. In this story, Daredevil credits Page with coining the phrase "The Man without Fear", and she also suggest to Daredevil he wear red instead of black and yellow.

Issue #26 (Dec. 2001) brought back Brian Michael Bendis, working this time with artist Alex Maleev, for a four-year-run that became one of the series' most acclaimed. Maleev's harsh and grainy look is in contrast to Quesada's more cartoony lines, and distinctively reads like a marriage of Frank Miller's film noir style and the pulp-magazine art of the 1920s and '30s. Developments in this run included the introduction of romantic interest and future wife Milla Donovan, the outing of Murdock's secret identity to the press, the reemergence of the Kingpin, and Daredevil's surrender to the FBI.

The impact of his expose as Daredevil continued to be used as a plot point by both Bendis and Writer Ed Brubaker and artist Michael Lark who became the new creative team with Daredevil #82 (Feb. 2006), no longer under the Marvel Knights imprint.

Ed Brubaker's first story arc created a new and mysterious character masquerading as Daredevil in Hell's Kitchen.^[29] Murdock later discovers the ersatz Daredevil is his own best friend, Hero for Hire Danny Rand, the superhero Iron Fist.^[30] Brubaker said,

"Yes, I'm relieved, but at the same time, it was always the plan to reveal it this issue, and it was never meant to be as big a deal as it ended up being. It was just one part of a much larger story, one that the next arc follows up on. This whole 'who's the other DD' mystery that cropped up the last few weeks and ran around the Internet was unplanned, and I thought it was really amusing to watch, though a little nerve-wracking at the same time. I'm just glad it wasn't the only secret we were sitting on."^[30]

Over the next couple of arcs, Brubaker would make use of older characters such as Mister Fear and the Enforcers and newer ones such as The Hood,^[31] and Lady Bullseye. During the Secret Invasion, Daredevil takes part in the fight against the Skrulls in New York,^[32] ultimately surviving it into the Dark Reign and becoming involved with Elektra once again.^{[volume & issue needed]}. With the August issue the series returns to its original numbering with issue #500 (after issue V2 #119).

[edit] Character attributes

[edit] Powers and abilities

Although blind, the character's remaining four senses function with high levels of superhuman accuracy and sensitivity, giving him abilities far beyond the limits of a sighted person. Due to his lack of sight, Daredevil developed a radar sense.^[33] This radar sense has a function similar to echolocation.^{[citation needed]} However, as Daredevil's other senses are stronger, they are also sensitive; his main weakness is his vulnerability to powerful sounds or odors that can be used to temporarily weaken his radar sense.^[34] This weakness is often used to immobilize Daredevil if he were bombarded by too much sound, which will cause him great pain and disorient him.^[35]

When Frank Miller expanded most of Daredevil's abilities, he attempted to make them "extraordinary enough to be exciting, but not on par with Superman", noting Superman's distinctly unbelievable powers.^[33] When Miller joined the title in 1979, the first thing he did to the character was "revamp" his radar sense and made it less distinct and more believable; he wanted Daredevil to have the "proximity" sense that most martial artists claim to have.^[33] Because of this, he created an ability for Daredevil to hear the Hulk's heartbeat four blocks away. Due to the characters' sensitive sense of touch, Daredevil can read by passing his fingers over the letters on a page.^[33] Daredevil has also commonly used his superhuman hearing to serve as a lie detector for interrogation by listening for changes in a person's heartbeat. However, this ability can be fooled if the other persons heart is not beating at a natural rate, such as if they have a pacemaker. ^[36]

Though he has no superhuman physical attributes beyond an enhanced sense of balance, Daredevil is a master of martial arts.^[37] Having been trained by Stick, Daredevil is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant. His typical moves are unique blends of the martial arts of Ninjutsu, Jujutsu, Judo and stick fighting combined with American-style boxing while making full use of his gymnastics capabilities.^[38]

Daredevil's signature weapon is his specially-designed billy club, which he created.^[34] Disguised as a blind man's cane in civilian garb, it is a multi-purpose weapon and tool that contains thirty feet of aircraft control cable connected to a case-hardened steel grapnel. Internal mechanisms allow the cable to be neatly wound and unwound, while a powerful spring launches the grapnel. The handle can be straightened for use when throwing. The club can also be split into two parts, one of which is a fighting baton, the other of which ends in a curved hook.^[2][34] On some occasions, his billy club can extend into a six foot bo-staff.

[edit] Other versions

In addition to his mainstream incarnation, Daredevil has had been depicted in other fictional universes, including Marvel 2099 and the Marvel Mangaverse.

[edit] Reception

Daredevil was named Empire's thirty-seventh greatest comic book character, citing him as "a compelling, layered and visually striking character".^[4] Empire praised Frank Miller's era, and also referenced Brian Michael Bendis, Jeph Loeb and Kevin Smith's tenures on the series.^[4]

[edit] Supporting characters

Throughout the core Daredevil series, many characters have had an influence in Matt Murdock's life. His father, "Battlin' Jack" Murdock instills in Matt the importance of education and nonviolence with the aim of seeing his son become a better man than himself.^[1] He always encouraged Matt to study, rather than fight like him. Jack would also forbade his son from undertaking any kind of physical training.^[39] It is his father's murder that prompts the super-powered character to charge into a life a superheroism fighting gangsters.^[39] His is trained by an old blind ninja master named Stick, and has served as Murdock's mentor following Murdock's childhood accident.^[40]

Matt Murdock's greatest friend is Foggy Nelson, his college roomate, sidekick and law partner.^[1] As a superhero, one of his best friends is the hero Spider-Man; with his ability to distinguish heartbeats, Murdock learned Spider-Man's identity,^[41] and subsequently revealed his,^[42] although due to the events of the One More Day storyline, Murdock no longer knows Spider-Man's identity. Iron Fist would also later become one of his greatest friends, and at one point took on the role of Daredevil himself.^[43] Jessica Jones, a former superhero turned private investigator acts as a bodyguard for Matt Murdock in his civilian life. Her husband, Luke Cage, is also Daredevil's friend.^[44] Ben Urich, a reporter for the Daily Bugle had later discovered Daredevil's identity and eventually becomes his friend as well.^[45]

Daredevil is known to have a convoluted and often tortured love life.^[46] Throughout the series, his girlfriends are often women who are traumatized, maimed or killed, a narrative aspect some media critics refer to as "Women in Refrigerators" syndrome.^[47] One of Daredevil's more notable love interests is Elektra, an assassin who would later be killed.^[48] In the 2000s, Murdock marries a woman named Milla Donovan, although one of Daredevil's enemies drives her to insanity.

Typhoid Mary is an assassin for the Kingpin with an identity disorder. Maya Lopez, a deaf woman who was taken under care of the Kingpin and fell in love with Matthew Murdock. Bullseye — Daredevil's deadliest enemy, a frequent assassin for the Kingpin. He killed the first two loves of Murdock's life: Elektra and Karen Page. Electro — Primarily a Spider-Man foe, he was nevertheless the first supervillain Daredevil faced (Daredevil #2, June 1964). Kingpin— Criminal mastermind and Daredevil's arch-nemesis. He has long known Daredevil's secret identity, and used this information to try to destroy Murdock's life. Lady Bullseye - member of the Hand. She was "rescued" by Bullseye when she and other women were captured to be slaves. She began special training using his name to honor him. The Punisher — Vigilante Frank Castle, one of Daredevil's most prolific antagonists and at times reluctant ally.

[edit] In other media

[edit] Television

Daredevil makes his first animated television appearance in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode, "Attack of the Arachnoid", voiced by Frank Welker.^[49] The character would later appear in the 1990s Fantastic Four episode, "And a Blind Man Shall Lead Them", voiced by Bill Smitrovich^[50] and the Spider-Man: The Animated Series double episode "Framed"/"The Man Without Fear", voiced by Edward Albert.^[49] In each of his appearances, Daredevil is designed in a different costume and style, with only the "Framed"/"The Man Without Fear" depicting the character in his traditionally dark red costume.^[49]

In 2008, it was revealed that Marvel had originally planned on broadcasting a cartoon series based on Daredevil, featuring a guide dog named "Lightning the Super-Dog".^[51] The series was to air the same time Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends was still being broadcast, nearly thirty years before.^[51] Television writer Mark Evanier had pitched the idea ABC, which was reluctant to air the series. Evanier wrote out a pilot that did not include Lightning, and ABC was ready to buy the series.^[51] A short time later, however, a Marvel executive had "said the wrong thing" to an ABC executive, which supposedly prompted the ABC executive to give the time slot to another project he preferred. NBC later considered the show, but didn't follow through with it.^[51]

[edit] Film

Daredevil appears in the 1989 television movie The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, portrayed by Rex Smith. While remaining fairly true to the source material of the Daredevil comic books, the biggest departure was that Daredevil's traditional red attire, complete with horns, was replaced with a black ninja-like outfit.^[52]

In 2003, 20th Century Fox released Daredevil, a film centered on the character written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Actor Ben Affleck starred as the titular character. As a childhood fan of Daredevil,^[53] Affleck made sure he had read every issue of Daredevil, commenting that it was about taking what he knew as a fan and faithfully getting it on the screen. He stated he didn't want anyone else taking the role as he was afraid they would "go out and do it different from the comic and screw it up."^[54] Despite this, Vin Diesel and Colin Farrell were both (respectively) considered to portray Daredevil before him.^[55][56]

The film received mixed reviews from critics.^[57] Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 44% of critics gave the film positive feedback, based on 201 reviews,^[57] with a 44% rating from selected "notable" critics.^[58]

[edit] Parodies

Personality Comics' Spoof Comics Presents #5 (October 1992) created a parody of the character entitled "Daredame, the Woman Without a Brassiere".^[59] In the 16-page "Origin of Daredame", a radioactive isotope hits "Pat Paddock" (the daughter of mud wrestler "Joltin' Jackie Paddock") in the chest while she saves a man crossing the street. Her bust enlarges hugely and develops a radar sense.^[59] A short time later, comic book writers Alan Moore, Mike Collins and Mark Farmer parodied Frank Miller's Daredevil stories in "Grit!", a short story in The Daredevils #8 featuring "Dourdevil".^[60] Elektra and Bullseye are also parodied as "Erektra and Pigseye".^[60]

The 2001 feature film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back includes a scene where Daredevil is knocked down by security guards.^[61] Director Kevin Smith was a writer for Daredevil in 1999.^[61] Daredevil appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Chirlaxx" voiced by Breckin Meyer. In a segment that parodies Double Dare with blind and deaf celebrities, he and blind musician Stevie Wonder compete against deaf actress Marlee Matlin and deaf/blind author Helen Keller.^[62]

[edit] Merchandise

[edit] Video games

Daredevil makes his first video game appearance as a cameo in Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety released in 1995.^[63] He would also make another cameo in the Punisher video game.^[64] The character later makes a more notable role as an alternate playable character in Spider-Man: Web of Fire released in 2000, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.^[65]

Daredevil's largest role was as the title character in the game based on the 2003 film. The Game Boy Advance game was released on February 14, 2003, and was created by Encore, a subsidiary of Navarre Corporation.^[66] Daredevil stars as a character in the 2005 Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects video game voiced by David Kaye.^[67] Daredevil appears as an unlockable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance voiced by Cam Clarke. He, like Black Panther, can be unlocked by collecting 5 of his action figures throughout the game. He has a special dialogue with Blade, Black Widow and Bullseye. A simulation disk has Daredevil protecting Elektra from Bullseye.^[68]

Daredevil: The Man Without Fear was a 3D title in development for the Xbox and PlayStation2, although it was later canceled in 2004.^[69][70]

Daredevil is scheduled to appear as a playable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2.^[71]

[edit] Toys

Daredevil is featured in the Marvel Legends (third series) toy line. The action figure was based on the film version Ben Affleck starred in.^[72] The Marvel Legends Showdown 1/18th scale line also featured Daredevil figures in both his red uniform and a chase version in his yellow-and-black uniform.^[73]

The "Spider-Man Classics" toy line (which was a precursor to Marvel Legends) also included a Daredevil figure, clad in his traditional red costume.^[74] The action figure resembles Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada's representation of Daredevil; it is derived from Quesada's stint as an artist on Daredevil.^[74] Acessories to the figure include the two billy clubs that the character uses. Unlike the mainstream comics, the clubs are white (rather than red). An expensive varient of the character also included him in his original yellow and black garb, released in the same series.^[74]

[edit] Awards

• Daredevil: The Man Without Fear: 1992 Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award — Favorite Limited Comic-Book Series
• Daredevil: Yellow: 2001 Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award — Favorite Limited Comic-Book Series

[edit] See also

• Bibliography of Daredevil titles
• Echolocation
• Ben Underwood

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Daredevil at the Grand Comics Database
• Daredevil at Marvel's official site
• Daredevil at ManWithoutFear, a fan site
• Daredevil at TheOtherMurdockPapers, a fan site
• Wolk, Douglas. "Secrets, lies — and lawyers!", Salon.com, January 5, 2006
• Marvel Toonzone: Daredevil
• Daredevil cover gallery

v • d • e Daredevil Creators Stan Lee and Bill Everett Supporting characters Black Widow • The Chaste • Milla Donovan • Echo • Elektra • Iron Fist • Jessica Jones • Franklin "Foggy" Nelson • Dakota North • Karen Page • Stick • Ben Urich • White Tiger Villains Bullet • Bullseye • Death-Stalker • Enforcers • Gladiator • The Hand • Jester • Kingpin • Kirigi • Lady Bullseye • Leap-Frog • Man-Bull • Matador • Mister Fear • Mr. Hyde • Mysterio • The Owl • Paladin • Purple Man • Stilt-Man • Typhoid Mary Films The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989) • Daredevil (2003) • Elektra (2005) Related articles List of characters • Daredevil: The Album • Elektra: The Album Television appearances "Framed" (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) • "The Man Without Fear" (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) Story arcs "Born Again" • "Guardian Devil"  • Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target • Daredevil: End of Days • Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra • Ultimate Elektra • "Without Fear" • "Return of the King"