Appearing in "Purple, Part 1"
Featured Characters:
- Matt Murdock (Main story and flashback) (As Daredevil in flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Catholic Church
- Kirsten McDuffie (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Typhoid Mary (Mary Walker) (Only in flashback)
- Tombstone's Gang (Only in flashback)
- Tombstone (Lonnie Lincoln) (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed others (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Foggy Nelson (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Stark Industries (Mentioned)
- Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Mentioned)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Punisher (Frank Castle) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- SFFD (Only in flashback)
- God (Yahweh) (Mentioned)
- NYPD (Only in flashback)
- District Attorney Ben Hochberg (First appearance chronologically) (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Only in flashback)
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) (Only in flashback)
- Emma Frost (Only in flashback)
- Son of Satan (Daimon Hellstrom) (Only in flashback)
- Mephisto (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Purple Children (Only in flashback)
- Shallah (Only in flashback)
- Joe (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Mutants (Only in flashback)
- Zenn-Lavians (Only in flashback)
- Human-Demon Hybrids (Only in flashback)
- Demons (Referenced)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- Midtown (Main story and flashback)
- Hell's Kitchen
- Park Avenue (Only in flashback)
- Waldorf Astoria New York (Only in flashback)
- Lexington Avenue (Only in flashback)
- Chrysler Building (Only in flashback)(Cameo)
- Shuko (Mentioned)
- Harlem (Only in flashback)
- Chinatown (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan Criminal Court (Only in flashback)
- New York County District Attorney's Office (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan Criminal Court (Only in flashback)
- Greenwich Village (Only in flashback)
- Bleecker Street (Only in flashback)
- Sanctum Sanctorum (Only in flashback)
- Bleecker Street (Only in flashback)
- Midtown (Main story and flashback)
- LaGuardia Airport, East Elmhurst, Queens (Mentioned)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- California (Only in flashback)
- San Francisco (Only in flashback)
- San Francisco Bay (Only in flashback)
- Golden Gate Bridge (Only in flashback)(Cameo)
- Alcatraz Island (Only in flashback)(Cameo)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- Moon, Earth Orbit (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Sun (Mentioned)
Items:
- Daredevil's Billy Club (Only in flashback)
- Iron Man Armor Model 37 (Bleeding Edge Armor) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Punisher's Suit (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Punisher's Arsenal (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Daredevil's Suit (Only in flashback)
- Cloak of Levitation (Only in flashback)
- Eye of Agamotto (Only in flashback)
- Power Cosmic (Only in flashback)
Vehicles:
- Silver Surfer's Surfboard (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "Purple, Part 1"
Matt Murdock in a confessional booth tells the priest the story of how he had previously been outed as Daredevil but then regained his secret identity. Life had been going pretty good in San Francisco, until one night Typhoid Mary attacked him in bed with his girlfriend.Matt defeated her but their apartment burned due to a fire she started. Afterwards they return to NYC, where Matt is treated like a celebrity and hounded by photographers. Matt swings around as Daredevil, reacquainting himself with the city, when he hears a cry for help and investigates.
He finds Tombstone and his gang about to kill a man. DD defeats them and the cops arrive to arrest Tombstone, but DD feels there is something off. The next day he learns that Tombstone plans to sue him for assault. The DA says it’s best if he stays out of it, both as DD and as Matt Murdock.
Daredevil broods, realizing he could do more good when his identity was still secret. Looking for a way to make everyone forget the truth about himself, he visits various powerful beings, including Dr Strange, Silver Surfer, Emma Frost, and Daimon Hellstrom, but none can help him. He and Christie go back to San Francisco and rent a new apartment, when the Purple Children show up at his door.
Solicit Synopsis
NEW ARC! “PURPLE” STARTS HERE!
• The question everyone has been asking…
• What price did Matt Murdock pay to make his identity secret again?
• And who got left behind in the process?