Essential Daredevil #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis thick black-and-white trade paperback collects the earliest adventures of Matt Murdock, the blind lawyer who fights crime as Daredevil. It reprints the first 25 issues of his original series from the 1960s, showcasing his origin and early battles against foes like the Owl and the Purple Man. As part of Marvel's Essential line, it offers a budget-friendly way to experience the Man Without Fear's formative years in dense, value-packed format.
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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.
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