As created in 1964 by Bill Everett, Jack Kirby, and Stan Lee, Marvel’s Daredevil was a blind Irish American lawyer named Matthew Murdock, who moonlights as a vigilante named Daredevil – but aside from leading some of Marvel’s most critically-acclaimed comics, the hero does something more valuable than most Marvel characters, offering an illuminating look into contemporary socio-political problems  – whether or not they are actually discussed upfront in his comics. 

Idealism is inherent to the superhero genre. When originally imagining larger-than-life figures representing good and evil and everything in between, American comic book creators in the 20th century envisioned a world where costumed figures were champions of their own cause; for every evil in society, there was a vigilante willing to take a stand against it. Through reading the adventures of characters like Captain America, the X-Men, Spider-Man, and more, comic book readers could