A copy of Daredevil No. 1 with a Stan Lee autograph.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of two notable comic book events.
At Marvel, February was the debut of blind lawyer Matt Murdock, one of the last characters introduced in Marvel's initial phase. Despite being sightless, Matt could function as Daredevil thanks to his other heightened senses.
The title had been scheduled to come out in 1963 but was delayed. The original artist was Bill Everett, who had created the Sub-Mariner in 1939.
Everett needed some uncredited help from artist Steve Ditko to finish the first story. Marvel stalwart Jack Kirby penciled the cover with Everett inking. Kirby would end up drawing the first five Daredevil covers.
Other artists (Joe Orlando and Vince Colletta in issues 2-4 and Wally Wood in issues 5-6) did the rest of the 1964 DD stories. Wood redesigned Daredevil's costume at the start of 1965.
More recently, Daredevil appeared in a Netflix series and a Disney + series is in production. Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) had a cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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Carmine Infantino's cover to Detective Comics No. 327 in 1964, which introduced the "New Look" Batman
The sales of DC's Batman were struggling in the 1960s. The character's basic look hadn't changed since the 1940s. The title was running mostly science fiction stories.
Editor Julius Schwartz commissioned writer John Broome and artist Carmine Infantino for a major update in 1964. Infantino supplied a more realistic-looking, less-cartoonish Batman. The science fiction aliens were gone and Batman was more of a detective again. This became known as the "New Look" Batman.
The moves worked. This version was not the dark Batman that would be seen in later years. Traditional Batman foes such as the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler and Catwoman remained. But Batman's popularity did recover.
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