Welcome to the 50th Anniversary issue of In this issue you will find three stories: Daredevil! The first is by Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez Newly appointed Daredevil Editor, Ellie Pyle, who are part of the current Daredevil creative here, and I’m going to be honest, writing an team. Mark took a suggestion (might have intro to a milestone as your second issue is been a dare) from former Daredevil editor pretty terrifying. So I’m going to use what Stephen Wacker to spend this milestone I’ve learned from Matt Murdock and just jump looking forward instead of back and set the in face first! issue on Matt Murdock’s 50th birthday. It draws from a lot of what is going on in the Back in the spring of 1964*, The Man Without current series right now though (Including Fear (created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett Matt’s recent move to San Francisco!) and with some help from Jack Kirby) burst into includes many clues about where stories Mark Fogwell’s gym and onto the stands, becoming is just starting now might end up. the world’s first blind super hero! As a kid, Matt Murdock saved an older man from being The second story is by Brian Michael Bendis hit by a truck but a cylinder of radioactive and Alex Maleev whose four year run remains chemicals fell off the truck, hit Matt in the one of the most acclaimed in the book’s face and blinded him! Though Matt’s sight history. Where this story falls in relation to would never return, he soon discovered that that run or other possible futures remains up his other senses had become hypersensitive to you. to compensate. He could tell if someone was lying by listening to their heartbeat, read by Finally, we have a flashback to the madcap feeling the indentations a pen made in paper, Gene Colan days when Matt Murdock tried identify people by smell, and his sight was to hide his secret identify by inventing a twin replaced by a kind of radar sense that let him brother for himself named Mike. It’s written perceive the world around him 360 degrees and drawn by former Daredevil writer Karl at a time. Matt was raised in Hell’s Kitchen, Kesel and inked by Tom Palmer who inked NYC by an aging prize fighter father who Daredevil over Gene years ago. wanted his son to grow up to be a lawyer. After Matt’s father was killed by the mobsters It would be impossible to encapsulate every he had unknowingly been working for, Matt kind of Daredevil story in one 40 page issue, adopted the costumed identity of Daredevil but these stories are an excellent sampling of to avenge his father’s death and protect Hell’s where the character has been and where he Kitchen. He became a lawyer by day, and a might one day be. super hero by night. So you should start reading! Matt Murdock has been through a lot since then. In the 80s Frank Miller added new Said with a smile, levels to Daredevil’s origin by introducing the Hand, a mysterious organization of ninjas who Ellie Pyle had trained Daredevil and his star-crossed Daredevil Editor love, Elektra. During Miller’s run a book that had once been a swashbuckling adventure *Daredevil fun fact: Tom Brevoort says that with hilarious hijinks (see Mike Murdock, Daredevil #1 was running so late that Stan had below) became a brilliant, noir crime book to create the Avengers just to fill a hole in the with a mystical edge. And it really speaks to publishing schedule. No issue of Daredevil has ever the enduring nature of this character that both run late since… (They can’t hear my heartbeat on of those styles continue to work, and some paper right?) stories have even landed nicely in between.

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PRESENTING A VERY SPECIAL LOOK AT THE FUTURE TO COMMEMORATE DAREDEVIL’S FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY: THE KING IN RED MARK WAID & JAVIER RODRIGUEZ STORYTELLERS ALVARO LOPEZ INKS JAVIER RODRIGUEZ COLORS VC’S JOE CARAMAGNA LETTERER PAOLO RIVERA COVER MARCOS MARTIN and SAMNEE & RODRIGUEZ VARIANT COVER ELLIE PYLE EDITOR AXEL ALONSO EDITOR IN CHIEF JOE QUESADA CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER DAN BUCKLEY PUBLISHER ALAN FINE EXEC. PRODUCER WITH GRATITUDE TO STAN LEE & BILL EVERETT, KARL KESEL, TOM PEYER, AND STEPHEN WACKER