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Lester

Lester

367 appearances · Bronze Age · 1979–2026 · 6 key issues
Who is Lester?

A natural-born marksman with a pathological love of killing, the man known only as Lester became the mercenary assassin Bullseye, whose uncanny ability to turn virtually any object into a deadly projectile made him one of Marvel's most lethal hired killers and a perennial nemesis of Daredevil.

Few characters in Marvel's Bronze Age catalog have proven as enduringly magnetic as Lester, who first stalked onto the page in Daredevil #159 in 1979 — a debut shaped by the legendary creative partnership of Roger McKenzie and a young Frank Miller, right at the dawn of Miller's era-defining run. Over nearly five decades of publication, Lester has racked up 312 catalog appearances and six key issues, a testament to a character who clearly resonates deeply with readers and storytellers alike. The company Lester keeps is nothing short of Marvel's A-list — sharing pages with Daredevil, Matt Murdock, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and the deadly Bullseye across titles like Daredevil, Dark Avengers, and The Amazing Spider-Man. If you're a collector tracing the pulse of Bronze Age Marvel into the modern era, Lester is a name you'll encounter again and again, always at the center of the action.

Identity

Real name. Lester (surname unrevealed; has used the alias Benjamin Poindexter)

Powers. No superhuman powers; peerless marksman/aim who can turn any object into a lethal projectile, elite hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, high pain tolerance. Later had adamantium grafted to portions of his skeleton.

Affiliations. Thunderbolts; Dark Avengers (impersonated Hawkeye under Norman Osborn); Assassins Guild; frequent Kingpin operative

★ First appearance
Daredevil #159
Jul 1979

Trivia

  • Marvel leaned hard into the irony of hero branding when it slotted Lester/Bullseye into the "Hawkeye" role inside Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers, a calculated identity twist that weaponized the costume as much as the man wearing it.youtube.com
  • Brian Michael Bendis has written more of Lester's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 32 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years — 1979–2023

Daredevil #159 1979
Daredevil #159
Daredevil #191 1983
Daredevil #191
Alpha Flight #34 1986
Alpha Flight #34
Captain America #372 1990
Captain America #372
Daredevil #5 1999
Daredevil #5
Deadpool #36 2000
Deadpool #36
Daredevil: The Target #1 2003
Daredevil: The Target #1
Dark Avengers #1 2009
Dark Avengers #1
Siege: X-Men #[nn] 2010
Siege: X-Men #[nn]
Essential Daredevil #6 2013
Essential Daredevil #6
Valkyrie: Jane Foster #1 2019
Valkyrie: Jane Foster #1
Deadpool by Joe Kelly: The Complete Collection #2 2020
Deadpool by Joe Kelly: The Complete Collection #2
Edge of Spider-Verse #3 2023
Edge of Spider-Verse #3

Appearances (1–150 of 367, oldest first)

Spécial Strange (1975)
#24
The Daredevils (1982)
Alpha Flight (1983)
#34
Elektra Lives Again (1990)
Elektra Saga (1990)
#3
Daredevil: Marked for Death (1990)
Captain America (1968)
The Marvel Masterpieces Collection (1993)
#3
Marvels: Portraits (1995)
#3
Elektra (1996)
#2
Daredevil Gangwar (1992)
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999)
#6
Daredevil Visionaries (1999)
Mutant X (1998)
#12
Deadpool (1997)
Marvel Knights (1999)
Gambit (1999)
Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller (2000)
Gambit 2000 (2000)
Daredevil: The Target (2003)
#1
Marvel Méga Hors Série (1997)
#16
Daredevil : L'intégrale (2003)
Marvel Heroes (2001)
#29
Agent X (2002)
#15
Daredevil vs. Bullseye (2004)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Daredevil 2004 (2004)
Elektra: The Movie (2005)
#1
What If Karen Page Had Lived? (2005)
#1
Marvel Méga (1997)
#23
Civil War (2006)
Wisdom (2007)
#2
Ultimate Fantastic Four (2004)
#38
The Amazing Spider-Man (1999)
Daredevil: The Devil, Inside and Out (2006)
#2
Thunderbolts (2006)
Civil War Chronicles (2007)
What If? Annihilation (2008)
#1
House of M: Avengers (2008)
Daredevil: Hell to Pay (2007)
#2
Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson (2008)
#1
Moon Knight (2006)
Secret Invasion (2009)
New Avengers (2005)
Dark Avengers (2009)
Punisher (2009)
#1
Ms. Marvel (2006)
#35
Marvels: Eye of the Camera (2009)
#4
Thor (2007)
Dark Reign: Elektra (2009)
Incredible Hercules (2008)
Dark Reign: The Cabal (2009)
#1
Dark Reign: Hawkeye (2009)
Spider-Man: New Ways to Die (2009)