Daredevil (Lev Gleason Publications)
Daredevil is a fictional superhero created by Jack Binder, who starred in comics from Lev Gleason Publications during the 1930s–1940s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books before being retroactively established into the Image Universe by Image Comics in the 1990s as its first character. The character is unrelated to Marvel Comics' Daredevil, and recent renditions of the character have often renamed him to avoid confusion and potential lawsuits.
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Daredevil, from the cover of Daredevil Comics #5 (November 1941), art by Charles Biro. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Lev Gleason Publications AC Comics Image Comics Dynamite Entertainment |
| First appearance | Silver Streak #6 (September 1940) |
| Created by | Jack Binder (writer-artist) Don Rico Revamped by Jack Cole |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Bart Hill Bill Hart |
| Team affiliations | Little Wise Guys (AC Comics) Sentinels of Justice |
| Notable aliases | The Dynamic Daredevil, Reddevil, Doubledare, Death-Defying 'Devil |
| Abilities | Highly athletic Superior reflexes Skilled acrobat, boxer and martial artist Expert boomerang marksman |
As a child, Bart Hill had been rendered mute by the shock of seeing his father murdered and himself being branded with a hot iron. Orphaned, he grew up to become a boomerang marksman, in homage to the boomerang-shaped scar left on his chest. Like Batman, introduced a year earlier, he took up a costume to wage vigilante vengeance.
Editor Jack Cole, who would create the classic Plastic Man a year later, revamped the character in the next issue as Bill Hart, pitting him against Silver Streak's lead character, the villainous Claw, for a five-issue battle that made Daredevil a star.