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A smart, meticulous look into the compelling and original storyline of Daredevil: Born Again, its gorgeous and unique artwork, and its overall influence in the decades since its release. A smart, meticulous look into the compelling and original storyline of Daredevil: Born Again, its gorgeous and unique artwork, and its overall influence in the decades since its release.
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In Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil: Born Again, the comic's titular hero has his life destroyed after his most menacing enemy learns his real identity. His attempts to rebuild his life and sanity result in one of the most gripping and impactful super hero storylines of all time.
Released in 1986, the storyline is an extraordinary exploration of what happens when a hero's identity is revealed, and his personal life completely annihilated. We see Daredevil reduced to the lowest depths in the character's history, but we also follow his painstaking path toward redemption.
This entry in MARVEL AGE OF COMICS explores Daredevil: Born Again's gorgeous and unique artwork, the lasting impact of its story and art, and how it forever changed the ways super hero characters and their secret identities have functioned.
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Introduction: Born Under a Bad Sign
1. Fallen Devil
2. The Creative Team Dynamic
3. Born Again
4. "A Man Without Hope is a Man Without Fear"
5. Broken Down and Rebuilt
6. The Marketplace
7. Born Again and Again
8. Conclusions, Impact, and Lasting Resonance
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Chris Ryall boasts a prolific career in comics as writer, editor, publisher, and historian. Currently the co-founder of Image Comics, Syzygy Publishing, and Editor-at-Large at Abrams ComicArts, Ryall is also the former Chief Creative Officer at IDW Publishing. His co-creations include of Zombies vs Robots, Onyx, Groom Lake, The Hollows, and Dreamweaver. He was an executive producer on Netflix's Locke & Key. His most recent releases include The Mighty Marvel Calendar Book, Origins of Marvel Comics: The Deluxe Edition, and Dread the Halls. Other 2025 releases include the graphic novel Megalopolis with co-writer Francis Ford Coppola and Son of Origins of Marvel Comics: The Deluxe Edition.
