Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

Daredevil is a superhero published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, Daredevil first debuted in in Daredevil #1 (April 1964). However, it would really be Frank Miller's acclaimed run on the series that would cement the character as an enduring and influential Marvel character. Matt Murdock was encouraged to pursue a higher education by his father, a boxer named "Battling Jack" Murdock, who loves his son despite his rough upbringing and encourages him to to become a doctor or a lawyer. This led the neighborhood kids to taunt Matt by ironically nicknaming him "Daredevil". Matt vigorously trained in his father's gym in secret to take out his frustrations. After saving an old man from an incoming truck, Matt was struck with radioactive chemicals that blinded him, but also amplified his remaining senses beyond normal human ability, and gives him a "radar sense" that formed a mental picture of his surroundings. Jack Murdock returns to boxing under the Fixer, a well-known mobster and the only one willing to hire the aged boxer, in order to support his kid. He is assassinated by one of the Fixer's men after he refuses to throw a fight after discovering that Matt was is in the crowd. Matt gets around his pledge to his father not to use violence by assuming a new persona that allows him to employ physical force. Matt confronted his father's murderers as the superhero Daredevil, dressed in a yellow and black suit created from his father's boxing robes. He chased down and confronted the Fixer, who pulled a gun on Matt. Before he could fire it, the Fixer suffered from a heart attack and died. Matt Murdock works as a lawyer in his civilian identity, and his supporting characters include his partner Foggy Nelson and secretary Karen Page, who would end up being killed by the villain Bullseye. His rogues gallery includes the Kingpin, Bullseye, the Owl, Purple Man, and the Hand.