Pre-Code Classics: Daredevil Comics HC (2024 PS Artbooks) comic books 2024

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "September 1940-December 1941/July 1941!" Collects Silver Streak Comics (1939-1946) #6-17 and Daredevil Comics (1941-1949 Lev Gleason) [Daredevil Battles Hitler] #1. Cover by Jack Cole. Daredevil is a fictional superhero created by Jack Binder. 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... 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. Lev Gleason launched Daredevil's own comic with Daredevil Battles Hitler #1 (July 1941), in which Daredevil and other Silver Streak heroes fought the German chancellor. It was written and partially drawn by Charles Biro, who in his 16-year run would make the character one of the most acclaimed of the Golden Age. Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.