Daredevil #53
(June 1969)

Marvel, 1964 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1969-04-10
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A. by World Color Press, Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1969 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

...In the Beginning! (Table of Contents)

Daredevil / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gene Colan
Inks
George Klein
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen

Genre
superhero
Characters
Daredevil [Matt Murdock]
Reprints

As It Was in the Beginning... (Table of Contents: 1)

Daredevil / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas (credited); Stan Lee (credited) (see notes)
Pencils
Gene Colan (credited)
Inks
George Klein (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Daredevil [Matt Murdock] (Origin retold, w/ Stan Lee's original dialogue from issue #1); Battling Jack Murdock (flashback); Foggy Nelson (flashback); Karen Page (flashback); Fixer (villain, flashback); Slade (villain, flashback)
Synopsis
Daredevil thinks back on his origins.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

In the letters page of Daredevil #58 Roy Thomas explains that this origin story using much of the original dialogue from Daredevil #1 had been commissioned when Stan Lee was still scripting the comic. Roy added a new splash page and an extra page at the end of the story to tie it into present continuity.

A Sagacious Smattering of Space-Wasting Small-Talk! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Let's Level with Daredevil / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas
Pencils
Gene Colan (illustration)
Inks
George Klein (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Smilin' Stan, Magnificent! Sensational!
Genre
adventure

Indexer Notes

Letters of Comment from Bill Dygert, Cheryl Yielding, and H. Rosenzweig. Includes an image from an earlier issue.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ...In the Beginning!
    Daredevil
  2. 1. As It Was in the Beginning...
    Daredevil
  3. 2. A Sagacious Smattering of Space-Wasting Small-Talk!
    Bullpen Bulletins
  4. 3. ["Dear Smilin' Stan, Magnificent! Sensational!"]
    Let's Level with Daredevil
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Chris Boyko
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore