Daredevil Fact — October 24, 2026

Today's Fact

Verified against three independent sources. Issues cited below.

DAREDEVIL WENT TO PRISON — WHILE IRON FIST WORE THE DAREDEVIL SUIT ON THE STREETS!

The Featured Fact

Matt Murdock went to prison as Matt Murdock. After his double life was exposed and the FBI arrested him, in 'The Devil in Cell Block D,' Daredevil Vol. 2 #82–87 (2006), by Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark, Matt is sent to Ryker's Island to await trial — locked in with criminals he helped put there, including the Kingpin, and forbidden by his own legal strategy from fighting like Daredevil.

So Hell's Kitchen got a substitute Devil. At Matt's request, Danny Rand — Iron Fist — put on the Daredevil costume and patrolled in his place, both to protect the neighbourhood and to sow doubt. That is also why the 'Daredevil' who confronts Iron Man in Civil War is actually Danny Rand, not Matt.

Inside, the arc turned brutal: Foggy Nelson was apparently murdered visiting the prison, a riot was engineered to kill both Murdock and Wilson Fisk, and Matt was forced into uneasy combat alongside Fisk and even Bullseye. Matt eventually escaped and fled to Europe to hunt the conspiracy behind his exposure.

Why It's Obscure

Daredevil has faked deaths and identities before. Doing time in Ryker's while another hero literally wore his suit in a major crossover is the version even Civil War readers mostly missed.

2006

Brubaker jumps straight in — Ed Brubaker opened his run by putting Matt in prison in Daredevil #82 (2006), building on the exposed-identity cliffhanger from Bendis.

RYKER'S

A senses nightmare. The noise and stench of prison are torture to senses as heightened as Matt's — a cruelty writers stressed throughout the arc.

THE OTHER DD

Check Civil War again. The Daredevil captured by pro-registration forces in Civil War is Danny Rand in the suit — a crossover detail hidden in plain sight.

THE RIOT

Enemies as allies. The riot forced Matt, the Kingpin and Bullseye onto the same side of a fight — the arc's most quoted team-up.

Gallery

Comic cover art of Daredevil — no AI imagery, nothing mislabeled.

Daredevil comic cover art — **Daredevil, The Man Without Fear**Comic cover art of Daredevil — the costume Danny Rand wore on the streets while its real owner sat in a Ryker's cell.

Daredevil comic cover — **Daredevil In Red**Comic cover art of Daredevil in his all-red suit — two men wore it at once in 2006, one in Hell's Kitchen and one in prison clothes.

Sources

Every claim above is verified against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Marvel Superhero Sent to Prison — SlashFilmCorroborates Brubaker's six-part 'The Devil in Cell Block D' opening with Matt in prison, Iron Fist crime-fighting in a Daredevil costume to give him an alibi, and enemies inside trying to kill him.
7 Moments From 'The Devil in Cell Block D' — ComicBookMovieDetails the prison riot aimed at Daredevil and the Kingpin and confirms the other Daredevil on the streets is revealed to be Danny Rand, the Iron Fist.