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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published April 1964
Frequency bimonthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters Daredevil; Fixer; Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; Spider-Man; Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch; Thing
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Bill Everett
Notes Heroes on the cover (other than DD) do not appear in the issue.
Reprinted in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1975 series) #nn; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #17; in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics Revised Edition (Marvel, 1997 series) #nn; in Fantastic Firsts (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #22 (September 1969); in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black & white reprint]; in Incredibile Devil, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #1; in Marvel Mini Comic Book Daredevil #1 (Marvel, 2003 series) #nn

23 page Daredevil story "The Origin of Daredevil"

Characters FEATURE: Daredevil [Matthew Michael Murdock]; GUESTS: Battling Jack Murdock (1st; DD's father; Death); Franklin "Foggy" Nelson (1st); Karen Page (1st); VILLAINS: The Fixer (1st; Death); Slade
Synopsis 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.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett; Steve Ditko; Sol Brodsky
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Cover of Amazing Spider-Man #1 is re-printed on the splash page.
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes Special (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (October 1966); in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1975 series) #nn; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #17; in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics Revised Edition (Marvel, 1997 series) #nn; in Fantastic Firsts (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn]; in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002); in Incredibile Devil, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #1; in Marvel Mini Comic Book Daredevil #1 (Marvel, 2003 series) #nn