Abandoned by his mother, Matt Murdock was raised by his father, boxer
"Battling Jack" Murdock, in Hell's Kitchen. Realizing that rules were
needed to prevent people from behaving badly, young Matt decided to
study law; however, when he saved a man from an oncoming truck, it
spilled a radioactive cargo that rendered Matt blind while enhancing his
remaining senses. Under the harsh tutelage of blind martial arts master
Stick, Matt mastered his heightened senses and became a formidable
fighter. He also attended Columbia University Law School alongside his
best friend, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson; but before Matt earned his Juris Doctorate degree, his father was murdered by agents of the Fixer
(Roscoe Sweeny) for refusing to throw a fight. Enraged when the legal
system failed to bring the Fixer to justice, Matt donned a costume made
from his father's boxing robe and went into action as "Daredevil,"
savagely beating his father's killers and frightening the Fixer himself
to death.
Establishing a small New York law firm with Foggy, Matt vowed to serve
the law as Matt Murdock and to fight evils beyond the law's reach as
Daredevil. Over the years, he has fought many super-criminals, including
Mister Fear,
Stilt-Man, Gladiator, Purple Man and Jester (Jonathan Powers), as well as crime lords such as the Kingpin and the Owl. He has loved and fought alongside both the Black Widow and Elektra.
Although Daredevil and the Punisher
both fight crime, they often clash over the Punisher's lethal tactics.
During an early encounter, Daredevil shot the Punisher to prevent him
from killing drug-dealer Peter "Hogman" Grunter. Since then, Daredevil
has worked with the Punisher when necessary, but has also attempted to
bring him to justice. Daredevil formed the "Marvel Knights" to apprehend the Punisher, who escaped police custody thereafter. Later, Daredevil teamed with Spider-Man and Wolverine in a failed attempt to take down the Punisher, who told Daredevil that the only way to stop him was to kill him.
Recently, Daredevil's secret identity was exposed by a tabloid and he
definitively defeated the Kingpin in public, declaring himself New
York's new kingpin. To avoid disbarment, Murdock has been forced to
publicly and legally deny his dual identity, though the public remains
unconvinced. He was incarcerated by the FBI which had been publicly
embarrassed by Murdock and placed in a population comprised of many of
his enemies in the hope that Murdock would be killed while in prison.
Murdock, aided by the Punisher, escaped shortly thereafter. More on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/universe/Daredevil_(Matthew_Murdock)#ixzz38zGvODF1
