A page from DAREDEVIL #190 with layouts by Frank Miller and full art by Klaus Janson.

Here’s a page from DAREDEVIL #1 by Bill Everett with some uncredited help from Steve Ditko and Sol Brodsky.

As this page clearly shows, at least on the early portion of this job, Everett lettered the story himself, and then for some reason Stan had the job relettered—presumably because he felt that Everett’s lettering style was too far afield from the look of the rest of the line. In the first caption and the thought balloon in the third panel, teh replacement lettering patches have been lost over the years, revealing Everett’s lettering underneath. Same copy, just different lettering.

A few border notes from Everett remain at the top of the page:

ENVIOUSLY WATCHES SCHOOL TEAM PRACTICE

UNCONSCIOUSLY BEGINS TO RESENT PROMISE TO DAD

The final page of DAREDEVIL #4 by Joe Orlando and Vince Colletta.

Joe only did a few jobs for Marvel. Years later, he told me that the reason was that he wound up doing far too many corrections, as Stan would change his mind or want the story to go in a different direction after pages had been drawn. The Marvel approach of Plot-Art-Dialogue wasn’t for everyone.

Here’s the style guide that Wally Wood worked up for Matt Murdock when he took over illustrating DAREDEVIL. He did one of these for all of the major characters in the series, and specialized ones on all of Daredevil’s specialized equipment and effects as well.

Here’s an unprinted page by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson from the two-part angel dust story that was originally intended for DAREDEVIL #167 and #168, and which was rejected by the comics code. The story eventually saw print, retooled, as DAREDEVIL #183 & #184, but this page fell by the wayside.

A page from DAREDEVIL #14 featuring the savage Ka-Zar. Art by John Romita and Frank Giacoia.

Splash page from DAREDEVIL #6 by Wally Wood. I have no idea why the note at the top asks:

LETTERER: DON’T PUT IN DIALOGUE BALLOON POINTERS, PLEASE!

as there’s no dialogue balloons on this page. Could be that Wood turned this story in just broken down, and Stan wanted to be able to adjust and fine-tune the balloon tail placement once Wood had finished the drawings in ink.

Here’s Wally Wood’s initial page breakdown for this page from DAREDEVIL #9, along with the actual finished page. Bob Powell may have helped with the penciling on this one.

Here’s Jack Kirby’s compositional sketch for the 1960s Daredevil T-Shirt design.

Wally Wood’s cover sketch for the cover to DAREDEVIL #8. To this day, cover concepts are worked out in sketch form like this before an artist works a piece all the way to completion.