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    As a child, Matt Murdock was blinded by radioactive waste while trying to save an elderly stranger about to get hit by a truck carrying the dangerous material. In turn, his other senses were heightened to superhuman sharpness and he gained a form of "radar sense". By day, he is a successful trial lawyer; but by night, he guards Hell's Kitchen as Daredevil: the Man Without Fear.

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    Frank Miller for me. Love the stuff he wrote in the early 80s.
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    #2  Edited By kneel before doom

    Frank Miller

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    #3  Edited By castleking

    no fair. i was gonna say that exact thing. one of us must be psychic or share similar brainwaves  :)
     
    @kev17 said:

    " Frank Miller for me. Love the stuff he wrote in the early 80s. "

    @kneel before doom said:
    " Frank Miller "
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    i really wanna read man without fear and born again. off topic,  but i wanna read sin city as well haha miller is the man
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    #5  Edited By kneel before doom
    @kev17 said:
    " i really wanna read man without fear and born again. off topic,  but i wanna read sin city as well haha miller is the man "
    Just buy Daredevil Legends if you want to read those
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    @kneel before doom:
     Thanks ill keep a look out for them.
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    #7  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator

    Brubaker.Although Miller created most of the biggest impact on his storyline..Brubaker really defined DD.He kept his showings on a consistent level.He made DD look human.He wasn't fighting Gods,Unlimited Class characters,Powerful demons and a whole host of characters he really has no business fighting and especially not winning.He made DD's villains a match for him so that it really seemed as if DD had his work cut out for him with each battle.I think DD's writing has always been good though even the PIS stuff.Every street leveler needs that stuff once in a while.

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    #8  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    Volume 1: Miller. Volume 2: Bendis.
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    #9  Edited By Agent Buttons
    @kneel before doom said:
    "Frank Miller "
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    #10  Edited By UnsolvedParadox

    Ed Brubaker so far, but I haven't read any of Andy Diggle's run at this point.

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    #11  Edited By Dreadmaster

    Ed Brubaker but then again his run is the only one i read. >_> besides Diggles three issues.

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    #12  Edited By dane

    Frank Miller, but the Bendis and Brubaker runs were awesome.

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    Frank Miller and Kevin Smith

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    #14  Edited By Superguy0009e

    i only read mark waid, but damn is he good

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    #15  Edited By yumyumbubblegum

    Brain Michael Bendis (before he got greedy). I think it was during his run that we got to see Matt ram Wilson Fisk with a car, while battering him in Hell's Kitchen. I hate how the current Daredevil doesn't have the same dark and gritty vibe it used to have.

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    #16  Edited By krilling

    Miller gots my props for giving DD new life. He kind of recreated the character.
    But my personal favorite run is Brubaker's.

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    #17  Edited By DarkChris

    Thankfully, DD is one of those characters who are not the main characters in big events, or he doesn't appear to 4 titles in a month, but he had some great runs. Miller, Bendis, Brubaker and now Waid.

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    #18  Edited By Video_Martian

    Mark Waid (so far)

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    #19  Edited By RainEffect

    Brubaker. <3

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    #20  Edited By daredevil21134

    Frank Miller

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    #21  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    Miller, Bendis, Brubaker and Nocenti.
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    #22  Edited By edge0076

    In the order they worked on the character: Miller, Bendis, and Brubaker. Each had moments which surpassed the others, but overall, I think Miller (quite obviously) did more for the character than either of the other two writers, Bendis took it and ran with is, laying the groundwork for Bru, who (amazingly enough) upped the grit factor and actually had Matt serve time in prison while later reincorporating something that was long absent from the book...NINJAS!!!

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    #23  Edited By TrueIlluminatus
    @RainEffect said:
    Brubaker. <3
    Exemplary taste, you have.
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    #24  Edited By Deranged Midget

    Miller and Waid.

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    #25  Edited By Dreadmaster

    Still Brubaker

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    #26  Edited By daredevil21134

    Miller

    Bendis

    Brubaker

    Nocenti

    Chichester

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    #27  Edited By the_tree

    Of the few I've read Miller, Waid, and Loeb.

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    #28  Edited By TDK_1997

    Bendis,Brubaker,Miller.

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    #29  Edited By GuanXe

    Bendis, dont kill me :D

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    Miller & Bendis!

    I am also enjoying Waid's current run, despite it not being so dark. I think that it's a nice change.

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    #31  Edited By daredevil21134

    @GuanXe said:

    Bendis, dont kill me :D

    His run was awsome

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    Miller is my favorite Daredevil writer, but I like Bendis a lot too.

    On a side note, my least favorite is Kevin Smith. The first arc of volume 2 was a bad imitation of Born Again.

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    @gotwillpower said:

    Miller is my favorite Daredevil writer, but I like Bendis a lot too.

    On a side note, my least favorite is Kevin Smith. The first arc of volume 2 was a bad imitation of Born Again.

    It has nothing to do with Born Again and didn't try to beanything like that. It was not the story it was telling. It ended an era in Daredevils life. It also had a subplot but wasn't real real the same as born again. It has more hoomage to Kraven Last Hunt than Born Again.

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    @tupiaz said:

    @gotwillpower said:

    Miller is my favorite Daredevil writer, but I like Bendis a lot too.

    On a side note, my least favorite is Kevin Smith. The first arc of volume 2 was a bad imitation of Born Again.

    It has nothing to do with Born Again and didn't try to beanything like that. It was not the story it was telling. It ended an era in Daredevils life. It also had a subplot but wasn't real real the same as born again. It has more hoomage to Kraven Last Hunt than Born Again.

    I kind of agree but I still enjoyed it.Denny O'neal to me is another underrated Daredevil writer though

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    @daredevil21134: Yeah I did enjoy the Crossbow and Gael story. The hole Irish and British storyline was interesting especially because Matt Murdock is Irish-American. However it is probably a too hot a potato that Marvel dare to deal with it again. It could more easily go under the radar in the 80's than now.

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    @tupiaz said:

    @daredevil21134: Yeah I did enjoy the Crossbow and Gael story. The hole Irish and British storyline was interesting especially because Matt Murdock is Irish-American. However it is probably a too hot a potato that Marvel dare to deal with it again. It could more easily go under the radar in the 80's than now.

    It was awsome

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    No one comes close to Frank Miller but if were not gonna count him then id say Brian Michael Bendis

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    Miller

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    I love Bendis, Miller, Waid and Brubaker, all for different reasons.

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    Miller.

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    Bendis.

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    Miller has to sit atop that stack; in a very real way, he's the fellow who invented Daredevil. Stan and Wild Bill Everett had created DD but had no idea what to do with him. For about 15 years, the book was a poor man's Spider-Man without a soul, with no core, featuring stories that were all over the board. Because every kind of story was, at some point, tried, some of those stories and story elements inevitably suggested the book's potential. It was Miller who first saw that potential in the DD concept. He was the one who picked up the pulp/noir tone and spirit inherent in the origin and assembled all those disparate elements, added to the origin, created the character we've known as DD ever since (or at least up until Waid).

    Beyond Miller, Bendis probably belongs in the #2 slot--his DD material belongs right up there with Miller's among the greatest achievements in comics in general--but DD, from Miller forward, was blessed with several great creators. It became a book that often brought out the best in its writers.

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    Miller has to sit atop that stack; in a very real way, he's the fellow who invented Daredevil. Stan and Wild Bill Everett had created DD but had no idea what to do with him. For about 15 years, the book was a poor man's Spider-Man without a soul, with no core, featuring stories that were all over the board. Because every kind of story was, at some point, tried, some of those stories and story elements inevitably suggested the book's potential. It was Miller who first saw that potential in the DD concept. He was the one who picked up the pulp/noir tone and spirit inherent in the origin and assembled all those disparate elements, added to the origin, created the character we've known as DD ever since (or at least up until Waid).

    Beyond Miller, Bendis probably belongs in the #2 slot--his DD material belongs right up there with Miller's among the greatest achievements in comics in general--but DD, from Miller forward, was blessed with several great creators. It became a book that often brought out the best in its writers.

    Yes sir!!! Waid is overrated garbage but I think i've already said that before lol

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    Miller has to sit atop that stack; in a very real way, he's the fellow who invented Daredevil. Stan and Wild Bill Everett had created DD but had no idea what to do with him. For about 15 years, the book was a poor man's Spider-Man without a soul, with no core, featuring stories that were all over the board. Because every kind of story was, at some point, tried, some of those stories and story elements inevitably suggested the book's potential. It was Miller who first saw that potential in the DD concept. He was the one who picked up the pulp/noir tone and spirit inherent in the origin and assembled all those disparate elements, added to the origin, created the character we've known as DD ever since (or at least up until Waid).

    Bullseye was by Marv Wolfman and was changed ver little. Miller only moved Kingpin from Spider-man to Daredevil, The Owl, Mister Fear and Purple man was created by Stan lee. Typhoid Mary was created after Miller by by Ann Nocenti. DD was before Miller different from Spider-man both in character and in stories for instance the pulp science fiction in the early 70's. Yes, both Spider-man and Daredevil where both light headed and made a lot of jokes but no so close that it has been made up to be.

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    @tupiaz said:
    @jriddle73 said:

    Miller has to sit atop that stack; in a very real way, he's the fellow who invented Daredevil. Stan and Wild Bill Everett had created DD but had no idea what to do with him. For about 15 years, the book was a poor man's Spider-Man without a soul, with no core, featuring stories that were all over the board. Because every kind of story was, at some point, tried, some of those stories and story elements inevitably suggested the book's potential. It was Miller who first saw that potential in the DD concept. He was the one who picked up the pulp/noir tone and spirit inherent in the origin and assembled all those disparate elements, added to the origin, created the character we've known as DD ever since (or at least up until Waid).

    Bullseye was by Marv Wolfman and was changed ver little. Miller only moved Kingpin from Spider-man to Daredevil, The Owl, Mister Fear and Purple man was created by Stan lee. Typhoid Mary was created after Miller by by Ann Nocenti. DD was before Miller different from Spider-man both in character and in stories for instance the pulp science fiction in the early 70's. Yes, both Spider-man and Daredevil where both light headed and made a lot of jokes but no so close that it has been made up to be.

    In short, exactly what I said. It's impossible to overstate the extent to which DD was a poor man's Spider-Man. The "poor man's" part is just as important as the "Spider-Man" part. Spidey was A-list, whereas DD was strictly B-list and was treated as such. Both DD and Spider-Man were written as wisecracking, masked crimebusters who swung through the city on wires. DD's powers, which should have been something that made him unique, were usually just treated as a sort of spider-sense. Matt's forever-frustrated romantic entanglement with Karen Page, which went on for years, was lifted straight from Spider-Man--the Daredevil identity always being the thing that came between them (it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of the dialogue was directly lifted). While Spider-Man Annual #1 featured the Sinister Six, a team of Spider-Man's old foes banded together to take down the hero, Daredevil Annual #1 featured the Emissaries of Evil, a team of DD's old foes banded together to take down the hero (and Electro was on both teams). And so on. This continued well into the '70s. Drawing out the seemingly infinite parallels between the books would make for an interesting essay in itself.

    At the same time, Daredevil was, as I said, a book without a soul. Though the character was, conceptually speaking, very strong, the book itself was all over the board in its first 15 or so years. Stan used it to goof off and set the precedent for those who followed. In one issue, DD would be battling very recognizable street-level hoods; in the next, he was rocketing into space; in one, he'd be in some vaguely Germanic nation battling a dictator who dressed as a Medieval knight; in another, he'd be tackling the Ani-Men; in one, he'd be battling alien invaders, in another, he'd be entertaining U.S. troops abroad as part of a USO show. He'd decide he was going to give up being Daredevil then, a few issues later, he'd decide he wanted to give up being Matt Murdock. The book had no unique character. It was painfully obvious from the beginning that no one involved really had any idea what to do with it, and when it comes to the creative juice, DD was mostly just getting the leftovers after the better books had been put to bed.

    Miller didn't just recognize the tone that worked and draw together the disparate elements that had made up the better part of Daredevil, he reworked the book and the origin, brought to it a level of storytelling that had never even been approached in its pages and made DD an A-list character.

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    @jriddle73 said:

    In short, exactly what I said. It's impossible to overstate the extent to which DD was a poor man's Spider-Man. The "poor man's" part is just as important as the "Spider-Man" part. Spidey was A-list, whereas DD was strictly B-list and was treated as such. Both DD and Spider-Man were written as wisecracking, masked crimebusters who swung through the city on wires. DD's powers, which should have been something that made him unique, were usually just treated as a sort of spider-sense. Matt's forever-frustrated romantic entanglement with Karen Page, which went on for years, was lifted straight from Spider-Man--the Daredevil identity always being the thing that came between them (it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of the dialogue was directly lifted). While Spider-Man Annual #1 featured the Sinister Six, a team of Spider-Man's old foes banded together to take down the hero, Daredevil Annual #1 featured the Emissaries of Evil, a team of DD's old foes banded together to take down the hero (and Electro was on both teams). And so on. This continued well into the '70s. Drawing out the seemingly infinite parallels between the books would make for an interesting essay in itself.

    At the same time, Daredevil was, as I said, a book without a soul. Though the character was, conceptually speaking, very strong, the book itself was all over the board in its first 15 or so years. Stan used it to goof off and set the precedent for those who followed. In one issue, DD would be battling very recognizable street-level hoods; in the next, he was rocketing into space; in one, he'd be in some vaguely Germanic nation battling a dictator who dressed as a Medieval knight; in another, he'd be tackling the Ani-Men; in one, he'd be battling alien invaders, in another, he'd be entertaining U.S. troops abroad as part of a USO show. He'd decide he was going to give up being Daredevil then, a few issues later, he'd decide he wanted to give up being Matt Murdock. The book had no unique character. It was painfully obvious from the beginning that no one involved really had any idea what to do with it, and when it comes to the creative juice, DD was mostly just getting the leftovers after the better books had been put to bed.

    Miller didn't just recognize the tone that worked and draw together the disparate elements that had made up the better part of Daredevil, he reworked the book and the origin, brought to it a level of storytelling that had never even been approached in its pages and made DD an A-list character.

    Electro was in the 60 both a Daredevil and Spider-man foe. It is just recent times that have made him a Spider-man only villain. Electro was the first super villain Daredevil fought way back in Daredevil vol 1 issue 2 (issue 1 had fixer as villain). The wisecracking style was a style used by many characters in the 60's. Given up Matt Murdock was a big theme doing Stans run. The whole Mike Murdock was something that didn't happen in Spider-man and was unique for the Daredevil series. The only reason it was giving up was it made to much continuity and back the you wanted short one-two issues stories.

    A never said DD wasn't struggling as a character that he don't have a problem with good villains because he didn't have that many created back in the day. However many of the unique characters he has today was created back when Stan was a writer.

    A never said that Miller didn't rewrap the Daredevil into what he is to day. But that he didn't have a different feel is wrong. Many people struggle to do him right and did a lot of things with him. Which today gives the opportunity to take Daredevil in many different directions if the writers wanted to for instance have Mark Waid taken DD back to SF another take on DD there was done before Miller. Even though Chichester used the ninja mythos he also gave it a more science fiction feel to it which was also done doing the 70's. Many writers have tried and have done unique things with Daredevil they just didn't worked that well.

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    #47  Edited By PatMcgroin

    Bendis is great, but nothing beats Miller.

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    Bendis is great, but nothing beats Miller.

    yes sir

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    Bendis, But Miller is the forefather.

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    Miller>Waid>>>Bendis>>Brubaker

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