Daredevil (Lev Gleason Publications)
Daredevil is a fictional character created by Lev Gleason Publications in 1940.
First Origin
(Silver Streak #6)
As a boy Bart Hill witnesses his parents murdered. The killers then branded Bart with a hot iron living a scar in the shape of a boomerang. The experience was so traumatic it left him mute. He would spend the rest of his life training and mastering the boomerang and adopting the costume identity of Daredevil and vowing to evil in all it's forms.
Created by Jack Binder and Jack Cole.
Second Origin
(Daredevil #1)
His origin was changed from his previous one. In this new origin his parents were murdered in Australia and was raised by an aborigine tribe where he trained to master the boomerang. When his training was complete he returned to the United States to battle crime. He would later team up with the Silver Streak and a group of kids called the Little Wise Guys and do battle with the super-villain The Claw during World War II. They also retconed him being mute.
Little Wise Guys
The Wise Guys were a group of orphans and runaways who met Daredevil and helped him fight a German-American cult led by the Wizard. The Wise Guys members were Meatball, Jock, Scarecrow and Peewee who became Daredevils sidekicks. Sadly in issue #15 Meatball would die from pneumonia while fighting a malicious gang of kids called the Steamrollers. He would later be replaced by a bald kid named Curly who was a former member of the Steamrollers. When not helping Daredevil they would go on there own adventure's. First appeared in Daredevil #13.
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