Real
Name: Matt Murdock DAREDEVIL
Real
Name: Matt Murdock
Identity/Class: Extradimensional/alternate reality (Earth-58914) human mutate
Occupation: Lawyer
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Lightning, Foggy Nelson, Karen Page
Enemies: None
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Manhattan, NYC
First Appearance: Comics Feature#33 (January-February 1985)
Powers/Abilities: Daredevil is blind but all his other senses are heightened to superhuman levels. He navigates via a radar sense, and is a world class acrobat and hand to hand fighter. He wielded a billy club.
Height:
Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Black
History:
(Comics Feature#33) - Blind lawyer Matt Murdock
was secretly the vigilante Daredevil, fighting crime alongside his guide
dog, Lightning.
Comments: Created by Mark Evanier, based on the character created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett.
"In the summer of 1980, Marvel
Entertainment Group President James E. Galton and Marvel Comics
Publisher Stan Lee,...traveled west from their New York corporate
headquarters to establish an animation studio in Los Angeles. In
conjunction with the Emmy and Oscar-award winning animator David H.
Depatie and his longtime production associate Lee Gunther, Galton and
Lee formed Marvel Productions, Ltd.... The primary reason why Lee and
Galton wanted to start a production company was that they had been
repeatedly disappointed with the ways in which other producers had
portrayed the Marvel Comics characters in cartoons, live-action TV and
feature films, and they felt they could do a more accurate job of
bringing their characters to the large and small screen." - Robert
Strauss, Comics Feature#33
If the idea of Marvel setting up a Marvel
studio to make movies around their characters so they could do a more
better and (generally) more faithful versions of them sounds familiar,
then it should, because that's basically the story of how we've ended up
with the MCU. Naturally, Stan Lee had the idea decades earlier, though
with far more mixed results, not least because while they developed
ideas, they were then still trying to get other studios to buy them and
pay to turn the ideas into finished products. They had numerous
live-action movies in early stages of development - Captain America,
Doctor Strange, Fantastic Four, Roger Corman's Spider-Man and X-Men are
mentioned in Strauss' article in Comics Feature - but the only one
mentioned that actually made it to the screen during the lifetime of
Marvel Productions was...Howard the Duck. They also got ABC sold on a
live-action Daredevil series to the point where a pilot script was
completed, but it was in animation that they had the most success, both
with Marvel characters (1981's Spider-Man, Spider-Man and His Amazing
Friends, 1982's Incredible Hulk, and later Pryde of the X-Men) and
developing cartoons on behalf of others (Dungeons and Dragons, G.I. Joe,
Transformers, etc.). However, more successful doesn't mean completely
successful, and there were still a lot of ideas that never made it
beyond the development stage. There's not a ton of information available
on most of these, but the article in Comics Feature#33 did at least
provide concept art for a few, and snippets have emerged over the years
from those who were involved in the development stage.
Mark Evanier on the Daredevil cartoon:
I wrote the bible
and pilot and pilot for that Daredevil cartoon series...or rather, I
should say I wrote a bible and pilot for it. Others had done several
of each and ABC wasn't happy with any of the approaches. I was hired
to take over and much of what I did involved throwing out concepts and
alterations that others (including Stan Lee) had done to the basic
premise. By that point, there were a lot of characters and gimmicks a
lot less faithful to the premise than any superdog. I basically turned
it back into the version of Daredevil drawn by Wally Wood. Matt
Murdock did have the seeing-eye dog, which was not an illogical thing
for a blind guy to have, and the dog sometimes aided him a la Lassie
but wasn't any sort of superdog.
ABC agreed to buy the series and it was even announced in the Hollywood trade papers...but then a gent who worked for Marvel said the wrong thing to a top exec at ABC who, I suspect, was looking for an excuse to not buy the show and to give the time slot to another project that he preferred. Whatever the reason, we woke up one morning to find that Daredevil was off the schedule, never to return. My agent and I had a brief argument with Marvel over a bonus I was to receive if the series was picked up...and they finally paid it to me because they had to admit the series was picked up. It was just dropped again.
I think NBC later considered the show but networks generally don't like picking up things that their competitors have passed on.
Profile by Loki.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Daredevil is an alternate reality counterpart to :
Foggy Nelson and Karen Page were Matt Murdock's friends, but had no clue that he was secretly Daredevil.
Comments: I'm assuming from the artwork that these
two are Foggy and Karen, but they aren't actually named. While I'm all
but certain on Foggy's identification, there is a possibility that
rather than Karen Page it might be one of the other women in Matt and
Foggy's lives, such as Heather Glenn.
--Comics Feature#33
images: (without ads)
Comics Feature#33, p49, pan1 (main image)
Comics Feature#33, p49, pan2 (Matt Murdock with
Lightning by his feet)
Comics Feature#33, p49, pan2 (Foggy and Karen)
Appearances:
Comics Feature#33 (January-February
1985) - credits unknown
First Posted: 08/27/2021
Last updated: 08/27/2021
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