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Daredevil

Cover of Amazing Spider-Man #1 is re-printed on the splash page.  Art credits from Mark Evanier via the Comic Book Resources Classic Comics Forum (16 Feb 2002).

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.

Inker: Sol Brodsky; Inker: Steve Ditko; Inker: Bill Everett; Penciller: Bill Everett; Penciller: Jack Kirby; Writer: Stan Lee; Letterer: Sam Rosen;