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Foggy: "I mean, I love [Matt] like a brother and it's like he's part of my family, but...but my family's pretty messed up!" Daredevil vol. 1 #354 by Karl Kesel, Cary Nord, Christie Scheele, Matt Ryan, Ul Higgins, and Jim Novak

Matt: "Foggy, I love you like a brother...but I'm starting to love you like my brother, the wild #$@%-up who ruins everything he touches!" Daredevil vol. 6 #24 by Chip Zdarsky, Mike Hawthorne, J.P. Mayer, Mattia Iacono, and Clayton Cowles

I'm obsessed with this parallel.

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How old is Matt at the start of his career as Daredevil?

    Somewhere in his early-mid 20s. It’s tough to pinpoint his exact age because superhero comics tend to be vague regarding details like that, and also because Stan Lee apparently forgot about law school while writing Daredevil #1. Matt and Foggy meet while attending some form of higher education, they graduate, and then they instantly start their law practice. Later writers have not done anything to clear this up. Loeb claims it was law school. Miller claims it was undergrad. Waid claims it was law school. Kelly claims it was undergrad. (I wish I were kidding.) But it’s during this unspecified period of Matt’s education, not long before graduation, that Jack Murdock is killed, and then shortly after graduation Matt becomes Daredevil to get justice for his murder. 

Foggy: “You’ve gotta snap out of it, Matt! Pull yourself together, fella! That’s what your dad would have wanted! We’ll be graduating soon, and my dad’s setting me up in a law office! I want you to join me, Matt… as my partner!”

Professor: “Matthew Murdock, I am especially proud to congratulate you for being chosen class valedictorian! You have proven that an alert mind and a strong will can conquer any obstacles!”

Matt: “Thank you, sir!”

Matt: “[…] I’ll never be able to concentrate on my law work until Dad’s murderer is finally brought to justice! But years ago I promised Dad that Matt Murdock would use his head… never become a fighter… never depend on my strength, the way Dad did! I can’t break that promise I made! And yet, with my agility, my extra-sharp senses, there’s so much I could do! I can’t let all my powers go to waste! Wait! I have it! I’ll see to it that Matt Murdock never does resort to force… but somebody else will…! Somebody totally different from Matt Murdock… All I need are some old shirts which I can stitch together!”

Daredevil vol. 1 #1 by Stan Lee and Bill Everett

    (Please ignore him identifying colors by touch. Fortunately, he can’t do that anymore.)

    If it was undergraduate school, Matt was 21, and if it was law school, he was somewhat older. Since it makes more sense to assume the narrative just… glossed over the distinction between the two, rather than positing that he didn’t attend one or the other at all, logic would suggest he was most likely around 24-25. 

    However! Daredevil #1 also tells us that Matt was eight years old in 1950, and #53 (a later retelling of his origin) specifies that he became Daredevil in 1964, thus making him 22. In #82, he says that he has been Daredevil for four years, so we can assume at that point he was 26. (I’m sorry, bear with me. I’m on a roll. I’m gonna keep going.) But in #3 we are told that Matt lost his sight when he was fifteen, and in #76 he claims that he has been blind for fifteen years, thus making him 30 years old at that point. And then, all the way in #226 he says he still isn’t 30 yet. And that’s not even getting into the Man Without Fear continuity, which several writers (including our current guy, Chip Zdarsky) have tried to cram into 616 continuity, in which Matt became Daredevil during high school!

    The point I’m trying to make here is that because of the continuity inconsistencies inherent in long-term superhero comics, as well as the sliding timescale, pinpointing actual character ages is usually futile. For me, 24-25 makes the most sense, even if it isn’t explicitly backed up by the source material, but you are welcome to draw your own conclusions!   

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Skottie Young's "Big Marvel" variant cover for Daredevil volume 8 #10

#Skottie Young #Daredevil #Matt Murdock #Ten years of Skottie Young variants! Phew! I feel old.

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DAREDEVIL (1998) #100

Writer Ed Brubaker | Artist Lee Bermejo

#bullseye #daredevil #matt murdock #wilson fisk #kingpin

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Back with the only Valentines 💘

#daredevil #matt murdock #elektra #happy valentines

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Daredevil (1964) #31 | Stan Lee & Gene Colan

#dd: volume 1 #daredevil #daredevil (1964) #stan lee #gene colan #foggy nelson #matt murdock

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hell's kitchen is where I was born and born again

#daredevil #matt murdock #earth 616 #psd credit is in source link #I just love the way he curls in more and more until he lies flat and is reborn

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group therapy session with the worst people you've met (yourself)

#Daredevil #Matt Murdock #Mattea Murdock #Matt Murderdock #Daredevil Noir #Dare the Terminator #Deerdevil #I like to think 1602 Matt isn't there because he's perfectly well-adjusted and doesn't need therapy. Which is true.

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Whilce Portacio - Daredevil

#daredevil #whilce portacio

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That's what Foggy Nelson called them, guess it was true.

#elektra natchios #matt murdock #daredevil #mattelektra

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Daredevil (1964) #29 | Stan Lee & Gene Colan

#daredevil #daredevil (1964) #dd: volume 1 #stan lee #foggy nelson #matt murdock #gene colan #issue: v1.29

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Daredevil #4

TBH i think this might be my favourite Daredevil look.

#elektra #daredevil #matt murdock

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Daredevil #5 - "Introductory Rites V" (2024)

written by Saladin Ahmed art by Farid Karami & Jesus Aburtov

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The devils in those Murdock boys…

Binge watched season one and half of season 2 of Daredevil with my dad over the Holidays and drew this bad boy on my flights home. Still gotta finish the whole Zdarsky comic run 😅

#daredevil #daredevil fanart #matt murdock

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Matt Murdock in Daredevil: Yellow

[ID: Four comic edits of Matt Murdock with black and gold backgrounds. 1: A close-up of Matt in his yellow and red Daredevil suit from the shoulders up. His head is turned to the left. 2: Matt is in his casual clothes looking off to the right. 3: Matt is in his casual clothes looking forward with a serious expression. 4: Matt is in his yellow and red Daredevil suit. His baton is in his left hand and he’s looking forward. End ID.]

#matt murdock #daredevil #daredevil yellow

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part 3

#matt murdock #earth 65 #matt murderdock #murderdock

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one of my favorite ships <3

#matt murdock #elektra natchios #mattelektra #daredevil