Everett co-created the character behind Daredevil, drawing the first issue and establishing the visual identity of a hero whose blindness is compensated by heightened remaining senses. The concept has proved durable enough to sustain six decades of comics, animation and live action without its central premise being altered.
He was an American comics artist active from the earliest years of the medium, and he had already created an amphibious antihero for a different publisher decades before this character. Pulp adventure fiction and newspaper strip illustration shaped his line, and he worked through the periods when the industry nearly collapsed and then rebuilt itself.
Recurring subjects: outsiders defined by a physical difference, water and the sea as recurring visual motifs, and heroes with a genuine grievance against the world they protect. His draughtsmanship favoured fluid movement and dramatic silhouette, and his character designs were built to read instantly on a newsstand.
Two characters he created remain central to a major publisher's catalogue, one of them among the oldest continuously published superheroes in the medium. His work is studied as part of the foundational period of American comics, and the vigilante he designed has since anchored one of the most acclaimed superhero television series made.
For readers interested in where these characters actually come from. Suited to anyone approaching the television adaptation who wants the source, and to those curious about the earliest decades of American comics.
