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Title: DAREDEVIL No. 1
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Publisher:Marvel [Indicia: Olympia Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: April, 1964
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CGC certified: Fine (6.0). Cream to off-white pages. Cover: Jack Kirby and Bill Everett. Script: Stan Lee. Art: Bill Everett (with assists by Steve Ditko and Sol Brodsky). Origin and 1st appearance: Daredevil. Spider-Man & Fantastic Four cover appearances. GPAnalysis: A 6.0 sold for $6962 in November 2021.

Daredevil's debut marks the last great character launch of Marvel's foundational creative explosion (1961-1964), and one of the most significant character introductions of the Silver Age. Bill Everett's artwork, with Kirby input and Ditko assistance, is intriguingly out-of-step with the other Marvel mags of the day, harkening to the gloomy atmospherics of Everett's Atlas-era horror and crime stories. Even the cut-and-paste cover design invokes the try-anything, beat-the-deadline aesthetics of the pre-Code years. Several key elements of the character's mythos are introduced here (grim urban setting, Noir-ish visuals, emphasis on street-level crimefighting), only to be largely forgotten until Frank Miller revitalized the book starting with issue #158.

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