Jack Murdock (comics)
| Jack Murdock | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daredevil #1 (April 1964) |
| Created by |
Stan Lee (writer) Bill Everett (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Full name | Jonathan Murdock |
| Species | Human |
| Place of origin | Earth |
| Partnerships | Maggie Murdock |
| Notable aliases | Jack Murdock, Battlin Jack, The Devil, Kid Murdock, |
| Abilities |
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Jack Murdock is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the father of Matt Murdock known as the superhero Daredevil and the ex-husband of Maggie Murdock.
Jack Murdock first appeared in Daredevil #1 and was created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett
Born Jonathan Murdock, he went by Jack for short, and lived an average life in New York. He eventually met and fell in love with a woman named Maggie Grace, which led to the birth of a son, Matt. Although their life was good together, Maggie eventually divorced him, and went on to join a convent, becoming a nun.
Jack didn't want Matt growing up hating his mother for leaving them and decided to tell him she died when he was little, from then on Jack raised Matt as a single parent by becoming a boxer and doing the best he could to support him.
As time went by Jack found it hard to support his son on boxing alone and ended up going to a local mobster named Roscoe Sweeney, known as the "Fixer" because he fixed boxing matches to make money off of them. Jack made an agreement with him, Jack would be one of his enforcers' and in return Sweeney would fix his fights so that Jack would win and make more money.
While roughing up someone for money to give to the Fixer, Matt accidentally saw Jack and fled from the scene' being shocked from what he saw. At the same time' Matt got into a car accident, when he saved an old blind man from getting hit by a truck carrying radioactive chemicals.
Matt became blind by the chemicals himself and developed superhuman-senses. Heartbroken by what he put his son through, Jack vowed to never work for the Fixer again and helped Matt adjust to his blindness unaware of his powers.
Matt soon entered college and law school, studying to become a lawyer, while Jack continued to be a boxer. Unfortunately Jack soon became involved with Roscoe Sweeney again when he returned into town; Sweeney revealed that Jack actually still worked for him' by showing him that all the fights he won over the years were the result of Sweeney fixing his matches so that Jack would win and he could make more money off him in return.
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