Daredevil

D 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

The character originally appeared in Daredevil #1, which was published in April 1964. Daredevil was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, though character-design input derived from Jack Kirby. 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”.

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

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”.

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