Cover: Ron Garney

Daredevil #1

Feb 2016 · Marvel · 3.99 USD

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About this Issue

Daredevil #1 (2016) launched the fifth volume of Daredevil as part of Marvel's All-New, All-Different initiative, resetting the character's status quo in ways that reverberated through street-level Marvel storytelling for years. The issue formally introduced Blindspot (Sam Chung) to readers of the ongoing series — a Chinese-American undocumented immigrant whose layered backstory brought rare immigration and identity themes to a Daredevil book — and debuted the villain Tenfingers as the opening-arc antagonist. Writer Charles Soule, himself a practicing attorney, restored Matt Murdock's secret identity and repositioned him as an Assistant District Attorney, a legal-procedural twist that gave the run its own distinct voice apart from the Mark Waid era that preceded it. The Soule/Garney run that this issue kicked off directly inspired the storytelling and visual language of the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again, cementing the issue's place as a creative touchstone for the character's modern era.

writer Charles Soule · artist, inker Ron Garney · colorist Matt Milla · letterer Clayton Cowles · cover Ron Garney

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History

The series was launched under Marvel's All-New, All-Different branding, a line-wide relaunch that followed Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars. Writer Charles Soule — chosen in part because of his real-world legal background — succeeded the highly regarded Mark Waid/Chris Samnee run and immediately pivoted the book toward a grittier, more grounded register that Soule has described as consciously channeling the tone Frank Miller established decades earlier. Artist Ron Garney, known for prior acclaimed runs on Captain America and for collaborating with Jason Aaron on Wolverine, designed Daredevil's new black-primary costume for the series and brought an atmospheric, shadow-heavy visual sensibility drawn from his earlier work on the Icon miniseries Men of Wrath. The issue went on sale December 2, 2015 (carrying a 2016 cover date), with a wide array of variant covers including editions by Joe Quesada, Tim Sale, Alex Maleev, and John Tyler Christopher.

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First issue of Daredevil vol. 5 (the fifth overall Daredevil series), launched as part of Marvel's All-New, All-Different initiative.
Written by Charles Soule with art and cover by Ron Garney; colors by Matt Milla. Soule is a former practicing attorney, lending the book's legal-procedural dimension authentic grounding.
First cover appearance of Blindspot (Sam Chung), a Chinese-American undocumented immigrant and self-taught inventor who built a battery-powered invisibility suit; his absolute first appearance was in All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One #1 (Dec. 2015), which served as a direct prologue to this series.
First appearance of Tenfingers, a rogue ex-member of the Hand who grafted extra fingers from slain ninjas onto his own hands and used stolen mystical powers to run the Church of the Sheltering Hands crime organization in Chinatown.
Reestablishes Matt Murdock's secret identity (previously public knowledge during the Waid run) and repositions him as an Assistant District Attorney for New York City rather than a defense attorney.
Debuts Daredevil's black-primary costume (red accents, altered 'DD' logo), designed by Ron Garney — a distinct suit from the earlier Shadowland black costume and the one most directly associated with the Soule run.
The opening story arc, 'Chinatown,' collected in the trade Daredevil: Back in Black Vol. 1, was later cited as a primary creative influence on the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again.
The full Soule run — beginning with this issue — was collected in a Daredevil by Charles Soule Omnibus and repackaged in digest-format trades in 2025-2026 as renewed interest followed the Born Again television series.