Marvel Reveals The Full ‘Daredevil’ #1 Variant Cover Line-Up And An Important Change

by Tony Thornley

On April 1st, the Man Without Fear returns to comics, and he’s bringing some incredible variant covers with him in Daredevil #1.

Coming from creators Stephanie Phillips and Lee Garbett, Daredevil #1 will see Matt facing new challenges. There will be a new job, a new villain and more. It’s one of the biggest shifts in Matt’s life ever.

To go with the launch, Marvel will be continuing their popular True Believers blind bag program. With that, the issue is actually being delayed a week. As announced by Phillips on her social media, the delay is to fix the issue that saw Ultimate Endgame #1’s True Believers blind bags ship with extensive damages.

Marvel also revealed the variant covers that will be included in the blind bags as well as an lettered first look preview.

The solicitation reads:

Hell’s Kitchen is full of secrets — but no secret stays buried for long! As a fearsome new super villain named Omen has targeted Matt Murdock, it will be his alter-ego Daredevil who takes the hits! But beware! This mysterious new player isn’t all that they appear — a secret Daredevil will have to learn quickly as he scrambles to settle into a life and status-quo we’ve never seen him in before!

“Lee and I are longtime fans of the character, so you’re absolutely going to get familiar faces and elements of the character that made us fall in love with him,” Phillips told Marvel.com in a recent interview. “But we’re also setting up a new status quo, new characters, and a new entryway for readers to fall in love with Daredevil alongside us. We’re not ignoring any of the previous stories, but we get to start readers off fresh and really develop something that is uniquely ours.”

The revealed covers include a main cover by series artist Lee Garbett and variant covers by Rose Besch, Alex Maleev, Gabriele Dell’Otto, Joe Quesada, Greg Land, Peach Momoko, and Dan Panosian. A special Bicentennial Calendar Hidden Gem Cover by Sal Buscema, a Marvel Television Variant Cover spotlighting Muse by Marvel Studios Visual Development artist Jackson Sze, and a Foil Variant Cover by Ryan Stegman are also available. Fans can also purchase a blank variant cover. Any of these covers can be found in a True Believers blind bag, which can also contain special exclusive covers including a Marvel Rivals Variant Cover by NetEase Games and surprise original sketch covers just like the ones fans have discovering this past week in Ultimate Endgame #1’s True Believers Blind Bags.