Set Description:
Synopsis: This is a complete set of all 162 books with a minimum grade of 9.6. All books are unrestored and not qualified. The set consists of 149 9.8s, and 13 9.6s. Of the 162 books, 152 of our books are highest graded examples with seven of those books, down from a high of ten a couple of years ago, single highest graded copies.
Highlights of the set are our #1 9.6 and our #7 9.6, which comes from the Pacific Coast Collection.
Background: Daredevil was created by Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input from Jack Kirby. He first appeared April 1964 in Daredevil #1 after the 1963 Marvel entrants of Avengers and X-Men. Writer/artist Frank Miller's influential tenure on the title in the early 1980s cemented the character as a popular and influential part of the Marvel Universe.
Daredevil is the alias of Matthew Michael "Matt" Murdock, a blind lawyer. While growing up in Hell's Kitchen in New York City, Matt is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from an out-of-control truck after he pushes a man out of the path of the oncoming vehicle. While he loses his sight in the accident, his exposure to the radioactive material heightens his remaining senses beyond normal human ability, and gives him a "radar sense." His father, a boxer named Jack Murdock, is a single man raising his now blind son, who despite his rough upbringing, unconditionally loves his son and tries to teach him to form a better life for himself. Jack is later killed by gangsters after refusing to throw a fight, leaving Matt an orphan. To protect himself, Matt began training to hone his physical abilities and superhuman senses under the tutelage of a mysterious blind stranger named Stick, eventually becoming a highly skilled and expert martial artist.
Some years later, after graduating from law school with high grades, Matt seeks out the criminal element in Hell's Kitchen and starts his crime-fighting activities. Matt targets the local gangsters who murdered his father and succeeds in bringing them to justice. Eventually, donning a costumed attire modeled after a devil, Matt took up a dual life of fighting against the criminal underworld in New York City as the masked vigilante Daredevil, which put him in conflict with many super-villains, including his arch-enemies Bullseye and the Kingpin. He also becomes a skilled and respected lawyer after graduating from Columbia Law School with his best friend and roommate, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, with whom he becomes law partners, forming the law firm Nelson & Murdock.
Daredevil has appeared in various forms of media, including several animated series, video games and merchandise. The character was first portrayed in live action by Rex Smith in the 1989 television film The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, and then by Ben Affleck in the 2003 film Daredevil. Charlie Cox portrays the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, appearing thus far in the Marvel Television series Daredevil (2015–2018), the miniseries The Defenders (2017), the Marvel Studios film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and the Disney Plus television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, while being set to appear in the upcoming series Echo (2023), and Daredevil: Born Again (2024).
Our Collection: I can remember buying a copy of Daredevil #1 at the local drugstore in Oxford, MS. I still own a number of raw copies from those days and Daredevil was one of the 12 titles I started collecting again in the early 2000s. It is without doubt the easiest 60s Marvel title to collect, although a couple of issues, #1 and #7, have doubled in value or more over the past couple of years. It’s also somewhat of a strange set, as most 9.6s are relatively inexpensive, while 9.8s can be ridiculously pricey, which I guess signifies a thin market comprised of high-end collectors.
We started collecting these books in CGC holders in about 2005. Other than looking for a better copy of Annual #3, this set is basically done and upgrades are not a high priority. All 162 books are pictured and described below.
Current Stats:
162/162 Books
149 9.8s-147 Highest Graded
13 9.6s-4 Highest Graded
112 WP
45 OW/W
5 OW
7 Single Highest Graded
152 Highest Graded
10 Second Highest Graded
49 Pedigrees
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