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Well Marv Wolfman did create Bullseye. I would love to see Greg Rucka doing Daredevil.

He hasn't gotten to many over the years. He has mainly been released in his ongoing series and many of the series don't stand to well on their own. Not because they directly tie in to other stuff but they a connected to the mythos that they don't work to well without knowing other parts of the story.

There are some here are does you can read more or less without any problems:
Like I said before Redemption is a great one and the best stand Alone story I can think off. All you need to know is that Matt Murdock here has been outed (that is a theme happening to him a lot) and he is dealing with that. There is only one panel referring to this event so it is nothing major. Daredevil: Father is written by and drawn by Joe Quesada (he also draw Kevin Smith's Guardian Devil). It takes place roughly doing the same time as Redemption (People now MM is DD). That is if you would consider it canon (I don't think it official is) and it has some rather controversial ideas about Matt Murdock's father Battlin' Jack Murdock (I wont spoil it). I quite like it I think it can be written on is own terms and maybe it wont stroke you the wrong ways as it could do if you know more about Jack Murdock (I do believe some here wasn't so favourable for it for those reasons can't remember who though). Speaking of Jack Murdock we have Battlin' Jack Murdock by Zeb Well and Carmine Di Giandomenico which I like however it is one big love letter for the Frank Miller era so it should be read in that perspective. It can be written without haven read Frank Miller's books I guess. I just don't know who well it works on it self since I had read Frank Miller's DD before I read and kind of hard to take that out when you read the story. Daredevil Noir can be read on its own. i wasn't too blow away with it but it was ok. As the titles says it is set in a Noir setting (like it happened for other characters as well like Spider-man and Iron Man (written by then pretty unknown writer named Scott Snyder). Anyway Daredevil Noir is written by Alexander Irvine (more known for his novel than for his comics) and deals with Daredevil set in the 1930' and therefore don't fit in the main universe. It is an Elseworld story if you like even though that term is only used by DC.Parts of a Whole is written by David Mack and was first published in the main series however I think this can be read fairly easy on its own. Matt meets a new girl at the same time a assassin named Echo is hired to kill Matt by the Kingpin. Vision Quest is also written by David Mack and explains more about Echo however it also deals with events in Parts of Whole.

Things you can read right away:
Even though Daredevil Ninja is written by legendary Daredevil writer Brian Michael Bendis you should stay away from it. It is not that good (apparently Bendis was not satisfied with the storytelling in the drawings and need to redo some of his storytelling to make it fit the storytelling). It also deals with events after Guardian Devil so not really a stand alone series it was however published as a miniseries. However Yellow is a great miniseries but you shouldn't read either until you have read Guardian Devil because it takes place after does events.

Books I haven't read yet:
There is Dark Knights which I still haven't gotten around to read yet (I have it though). It seems like a story you can read without any problems. Daredevil End of Days I haven't read either both works more or less as an alternative ending for Bendis run (Daredevil is Killed and Ben Ulrich wants to figure out who killed him). The graphic novel Black Widow/Daredevil: Abattoir which should be quite good written by Jim Starlin (Most known for his Captain Marvel stuff and Batman: Cult and Death in the Family). However it is sadly OOP and goes for a high value online.

There has also been some team up minis
I haven't read any of them and they are all OOP: They are The Evil Men do, Spider-man/Daredevil Paul Jenkins and Daredevil/Punisher by David Lapham (probably best known for his work with Crossed at Avatar).

You can get a I believe a full list of DD trades and stories/characters that are relevant for DD here.

@testament: Exactly he was doing the flick with the tongue. Sad to here he passed away. Do you remember his name? Didn't think it was too confusing. However I did read it in a danish trade (or rather miniseries) where it was released with some back story about for instance Karen Page.

Since Bendis run leads into Brubaker's run you should read Bendis run first. I would read Guardian Devil before I read Bendis run though. Guardian Devil deals with some of the things in Born Again. After Brubaker I would trace down some Ann Nocenti or Chichester. You could also pick up Battlin Jack Murdock which is more or less a story with full of homage to Frank Miller's run. Daredevil Redemption is another great solo story.

MWF is the best place to start it is Daredevil's Year One book. It was released after Born Again but takes place before it. Born Again takes place after Frank Millers first run so chronological it is Man without Fear, Frank Miller vol 1-3 (vol 3 also has Love and War) and last Born Again. I would read Born Again first though simply because it is a better story and cheaper to get. I did a blog about the different DD origins a couple of years ago you can check it out here.

Frank Miller and Klaus Janson vol. 1-3 collects the entire Frank Miller run.

John Romita Jr did the art for The Man Without Fear and David Mazzucchelli did the art for Born Again. So therefor it is "only" collecting Frank Miller's First run. You wont even get the good Love and War Graphic novel he did with Bill Sienkiewicz. You will however get that if you by the 3 trade paperback volumes.

@daredevil21134: That is true I forgot about that. I remember seeing a documentary about a black blind kid who had some kind of radar. This was first discovered when they drove in a Taxa in New York (I think they were going to see a doctor about his blindness). It was rather interesting however I can't remember the name. It is probably ten years since I saw it I think it was rather new at the time.

I don't know who familiar people are with costume action figures however I stumple over these which i though was rather nice. Especially since there is no official Masked Marauder figures.

When did the Matt Murdock chronicles go offline. I think I vaguely remember the author saying he was talking the sit down within a month some time back but don't recall when. It was IMO a real great blog with reviews of all DD issue From Stan Lee all the way up to and with Kevin Smith.

@grenadeflow: He only wrote to fill in issue this one (which in a dollar bin ten or something years ago because I thought it was written by Nocenti). It is a fine little story read better and read worse.

I like this panel where DD just wants to fight some crooks he can projecting his anger on:

The other issue he wrote was 224. Which I haven't read.

BTW when DD aren't using his stick. His is driving a Taxa. The story is from DD vol. 1 #246 written by Jim Oswley (now Christopher Priest).

It is also one of the weirder ones.

Vinnie Jones is tougher than Brick so this isn't a problem.