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Essential Daredevil#1
Cover: Jack Kirby & John Romita
Essential Daredevil #1
“The Origin of Daredevil!”
writer Stan Lee · artist Bill Everett · inker Steve Ditko · letterer Sam Rosen · letterer Artie Simek · cover Jack Kirby, John Romita
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Cast · 2 characters
Full credits
writer Stan Lee
artist Bill Everett
inker Steve Ditko
letterer Sam Rosen
letterer Artie Simek
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover inks John Romita
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Matt Murdock saves a blind man from an oncoming truck but is struck blind himself by a radioactive canister during the rescue. The radioactivity heightens Matt's other senses and gives him an uncanny radar sense. Matt graduates college and begins practicing law with his college roommate Foggy. Matt's father, a boxer, is killed by the Fixer after he refuses to throw a fight. Matt designs a costume and a billy club (from his cane) and takes his derogatory childhood nickname "Daredevil." DD tracks down the Fixer and the man who shot his father.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).