Eightball

Eightball is a minor villain who debuted during Ann Nocenti's celebrated Daredevil run, operating in the street-level criminal underworld that surrounds Matt Murdock's Hell's Kitchen.

Eightball rolled onto the Marvel scene in 1987, born from the sharp creative partnership of Ann Nocenti and Rick Leonardi in Daredevil #248 — a Copper Age debut that plants this character firmly in one of the most celebrated runs in that title's history. With a modest but meaningful footprint across Daredevil, Daredevil Annual, and Daredevil Visionaries, Eightball keeps genuinely distinguished company, sharing pages with Matt Murdock, Spider-Man, and Peter Parker. A niche find for the dedicated Daredevil completist, this is exactly the kind of street-level curio that makes digging through the Nocenti era such a rewarding treasure hunt.