Meet the hero who used the title daredevil before matt murdock and fought the axis powers
In the character's first appearance, his origin was said to have been told to the artist of the story by someone named "Captain Cook..."
The story was that, as a child, Bart Hill was witness to his parents' brutal murder. The murderer also branded Bart with a hot iron, leaving a boomerang-shaped scar on the left side of his chest. This traumatic experience left the boy mute. He trained his entire life in the art of the boomerang, eventually becoming a master boomerang marksman. He then donned a costume and took to the streets as the vigilante crime-fighter known as Daredevil. In addition to his boomerang, Daredevil was a master acrobat and possessed a fighter plane called the Airdevil that first appeared in Silver Streak Comics #8.
However... It appears Captain Cook lied, for Bart Hill/Daredevil's second appearance showed him able to speak and it was later revealed that his parents were killed while in Australia, with Bart then raised by a tribe of aborigines who taught him the art of using boomerangs. As an adult, he returned to the U.S. and fought crime as Daredevil.
He now lies in the public domain, allowing anyone to use him. Many publishers have featured him over the years, such as Dynamite Entertainment in Project Superpowers, which was published during a period overlapping with The Boys. We all know which one ended up dominating that era. He has also appeared in Image Comics’ Savage Dragon, and even Marvel Comics has paid homage to him.