Talk:Leon VS Frank/@comment-26333134-20180508144429/@comment-26333134-20180508180900

^Early on, I was too lmao. He's essentially the first character who, back in the 40ies, took the name of Daredevil. His name was Bart Hill. At that time, he sold no less than the Batman and Detective Comics magazines, and he was pretty popular. However, with the super-heroes crysis near the end of 50ies, he was forgotten, and his publisher failed, and the rights of the character fell in the Public Domain. That's why Marvel was able to utilize the name for the Silver Age version of the character (the Daredevil we all know); they've been kind enough to contact the original writer and publisher to communicate them the creation of a new version of the character tho, receiving their blessing as an answer. Today, many other versions (with different names tho, for trademark reasons) of the character exists under many others publishers.