| Daredevil | |
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Real Name |
Bart Hill |
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First Appearance |
Silver Streak Comics #6 (Sept. 1940) |
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Original Publisher |
Lev Gleason |
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Created by |
Jack Binder & Don Rico |
Origin
In the character's first appearance, his origin was said to have been told to the artist of the story by someone named "Captain Cook..."
The story was that, as a child, Bart Hill was witness to his parents' brutal murder. The murderer also branded Bart with a hot iron, leaving a boomerang-shaped scar on the left side of his chest. This traumatic experience left the boy mute. He trained his entire life in the art of the boomerang, eventually becoming a master boomerang marksman. He then donned a costume and took to the streets as the vigilante crime-fighter known as Daredevil.
However... It appears Captain Cook lied for Bart Hill/Daredevil's second appearance showed him able to speak and it was later revealed that his parents were killed while in Australia with Bart then raised by a tribe of aborigines who taught him the art of using boomerangs. As an adult, he returned to the U.S. and fought crime as Daredevil.
Public Domain Appearances
- Silver Streak Comics #6-17
- Daredevil Battles Hitler
- Daredevil Comics #2-69
Notes
- Strangely enough, Silver Streak Comics was also the comic where Dynamo Hill, whose real name was also Bart Hill, first appeared.
- The character, renamed Death Defying 'Devil, appears in Dynamite Entertainment's Project Superpowers.
- Daredevil, renamed Daring Devil, is played by Matt Roeling in the Legacy of the Masque web series.
- Bart Hill/Daredevil, renamed Doubledare, is played by Andre Givogue in the 2010 film, Avenging Force: The Scarab.
original costume