Daredevil (Matt Murdock) is a ctional character appearing in American comic books published

by Marvel Comics. Daredevil was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an
unspeci ed amount of input from Jack Kirby.[6] The character rst appeared in Daredevil #1 (April
1964). Writer/artist Frank Miller's in uential tenure on the title in the early 1980s cemented the
character as a popular and in uential part of the Marvel Universe. Daredevil is commonly known
by such epithets as "Hornhead",[7] "The Man Without Fear"[8] and "The Devil of Hell's Kitchen".[9]

Daredevil's origins stem from a childhood car accident that gave him special abilities. While
growing up in the historically gritty or crime-ridden working class Irish-American neighborhood of
Hell's Kitchen in New York City, Matt Murdock is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from
an out-of-control truck after he pushes a man out of the path of the oncoming vehicle. While he can
no longer see, his exposure to the radioactive material heightens his remaining senses beyond
normal human ability, and gives him a "radar sense." His father, a boxer named Jack Murdock, is a
single man raising his now blind son, who despite his rough upbringing, unconditionally loves his
son and tries to teach him to form a better life for himself. Jack is later killed by gangsters after
refusing to throw a ght, leaving Matt an orphan. In order to protect himself, Matt began training to
hone his physical abilities and superhuman senses under the tutelage of a mysterious blind stranger
named Stick, eventually becoming a highly skilled and expert martial artist.

Some years later, after graduating from law school with high grades, Matt seeks out the criminal
element in Hell's Kitchen and starts his crime- ghting activities. Matt targets the local gangsters
who murdered his father and succeeds in bringing them to justice. Eventually, donning a costumed
attire modeled after a devil, Matt took up a dual life of ghting against the criminal underworld in
New York City as the masked vigilante Daredevil, which put him in con ict with many super-
villains, including his arch-enemies Bullseye and the Kingpin.[10] He also becomes a skilled and
respected lawyer after graduating from Columbia Law School with his best friend and roommate,
Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, with whom he becomes law partners, forming the law rm Nelson &
Murdock. After pretending to have a sighted identical twin brother named Mike Murdock, who
Matt would claim was Daredevil whenever his identity was made public knowledge, and
occasionally impersonate, Mike is brought into existence following an encounter with a reality-
warping mutant, before cementing his existence alongside Matt in history with a magic spell.

Daredevil has since appeared in various forms of media, including several animated series, video
games and merchandise. The character was rst portrayed in live action by Rex Smith in the 1989
television lm The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, and then by Ben Af eck in the 2003 lm Daredevil.
Charlie Cox portrays the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise,
appearing thus far in the Marvel Television series Daredevil (2015–2018), the miniseries The
Defenders (2017), the Marvel Studios lm Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), the upcoming
Disney+ television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022),[11] Echo (2023), and the upcoming
Disney+ revival Daredevil: Born Again (2024).[12]
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