DAREDEVIL'S MOTHER WAS PRESUMED DEAD — SHE WAS A NUN WHO NURSED HIM BACK FROM RUIN!
Daredevil #227–233 (1986), Born Again by Frank Miller: Margaret 'Sister Maggie' Murdock — who fled Jack and infant Matt amid postpartum depression, entered a convent while Jack claimed she had died — nurses her broken son back to health after the Kingpin's destruction of his life.
READ THE FULL FACT →DAREDEVIL'S FIRST SUIT WAS YELLOW — SEWN FROM HIS MURDERED FATHER'S BOXING ROBE!
Daredevil #1 (1964) by Stan Lee and Bill Everett: Matt Murdock debuts in yellow, black and red; Daredevil: Yellow (2001) by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale reveals the suit was hand-sewn from his father Jack's boxing robe, gloves and boots; the all-red suit follows in Daredevil #7 (1965).
READ THE FULL FACT →THE BEYONDER GAVE DAREDEVIL HIS SIGHT BACK — AND MATT THREATENED TO SUE HIM TO TAKE IT AWAY!
Daredevil Vol. 1 #223 (1985), a Secret Wars II tie-in: the Beyonder retains Nelson & Murdock to buy the Earth legally and restores Matt Murdock's sight as part of the fee; after one day of seeing, Matt refuses the case and the gift, threatening to sue until the Beyonder makes him blind again.
READ THE FULL FACT →DAREDEVIL WENT TO PRISON — WHILE IRON FIST WORE THE DAREDEVIL SUIT ON THE STREETS!
Daredevil Vol. 2 #82–87 (2006), 'The Devil in Cell Block D' by Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark: after his identity is exposed, Matt Murdock is arrested and held at Ryker's Island while Danny Rand (Iron Fist) patrols as Daredevil — the Daredevil later seen in Civil War — amid a prison riot targeting Matt and the Kingpin.
READ THE FULL FACT →MATT MURDOCK BECAME THE KINGPIN'S DEPUTY MAYOR — THEN TOOK THE KINGPIN'S JOB!
Charles Soule's "Mayor Fisk" arc, Daredevil #595–600 (2017–2018): newly elected Mayor Wilson Fisk names Matt Murdock his deputy mayor; when the Hand leaves Fisk comatose in #600, Murdock becomes acting Mayor of New York, continuing into "Mayor Murdock" (#601–605).
READ THE FULL FACT →NAMOR HIRED MATT MURDOCK TO SUE THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE!
Daredevil #7 (April 1965), Stan Lee & Wally Wood: Namor hires Nelson & Murdock, rampages, loses nothing but gains respect — and Daredevil debuts the all-red costume.
READ THE FULL FACT →DAREDEVIL BECAME LEADER OF THE HAND — THEN HIS FRIENDS HAD TO FIGHT HIM!
Shadowland #1–5 (2010), Andy Diggle & Billy Tan: the fortress-prison, the Bullseye duel, the Beast's possession, and Iron Fist's exorcism.
READ THE FULL FACT →DAREDEVIL HAD A TWIN BROTHER WHO NEVER EXISTED!
Daredevil #24–25 (1967): the Mike Murdock invention; Daredevil #41–42 (1969): the fake funeral. (He'd get resurrected — for real — in Daredevil #606, 2018.)
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