Has Daredevil been a member of a Super Group?

Avengers, FF, etc. Has Daredevil joined even briefly? Seem to remember that he played around with the FF back in the 70's or is my memory faulty?

Have there been any heroes never to team up with anyone? He might be it as his appearance with the FF was, I dont know, sort of weird.

<< Subject: Has Daredevil been a member of a Super Group?

Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2003 6:58 PM

Avengers, FF, etc. Has Daredevil joined even briefly? Seem to remember that he played around with the FF back in the 70's or is my memory faulty?

Have there been any heroes never to team up with anyone? He might be it as his appearance with the FF was, I dont know, sort of weird.

skyking >>

Well, anyone who worked with the Defenders usually became a Defender. I think that applies with Daredevil who worked with them a couple of times.

He was picked as a member of the Defenders in Giant Sized Defenders #3, and actually ended up saving the earth. The Grandmaster was going to claim the planet as his own and DD challenged him to gamble for it via a coin flip. The Grandmaster went along with it, and DD was able to tell, via heightened senses, how the coin came up, thus saving the earth.

The first incarnation of Marvel Knights was arguably a team. Maybe the second group isn't quite yet, but I figure between the two, it should count.

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DD made a couple of appearances with the FF. Around #40 he ran interference for a then powerless FF into a Dr. Doom controlled Baxter Building. Around #73, in a crossover with a just finished story in his own title, the FF thought Dr. Doom had switched bodies with him (actually, he had, but by this point the two DDs were back in their own bodies) and Matt needed help from Thor and Spider-Man to keep the FF from pulping him.

Circa Avengers #111 he was invited to join them, as was the Black Widow for the second time. He declined for the usual reason of groups making things complicated for his senses (not that he told the Avengers that), but Natasha joined. And then left an issue later.

Other than that, the Defenders and Marvel Knights as others have mentioned were pretty much it.

He was asked to join the Avengers once, but declined. I think he helped out the Defenders (and can be considered a member).

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It reminds me of the old argument as to whether or not Heroes for Hire (or Captain America and the Falcon for that matter) could be considered a superteam even though they only had two members (four if you include the Daughters of the Dragon). As the title of Daredevil for a while was actually changed for a while in the early seventies to Daredevil and the Black Widow, I would argue that they qualified as a superteam all by themselves.

A better example, to my mind, would have been Marvel Team Up Annual #4 starring Spiderman, Daredevil, Moonknight, Powerman and Iron Fist. I figure if Marvel Knights counts as a superteam then you have to include that team up too. In fact, you could easily argue that this was the original Marvel Knights line up.

He was sort of a member of the Defenders for maybe a single adventure.

At the risk of starting the mother of all flame wars, DD was not considered a Defender, at least not by the then-current regime at Marvel. While the old MU handbook entry for the Defenders left them an out by saying that 'virtually anyone who worked with the Defenders could be considered a Defender,' it defined the 'official' team, up to and including the lineup when the book was revamped, as:

Doctor Strange Sub-Mariner Hulk Silver Surfer Valkyrie Nighthawk Son of Satan Red Guardian II Clea Hellcat Devil-Slayer Gargoyle Beast Overmind Angel Iceman Moondragon

He also palled around with the Avengers for a while, but I'm not so sure that he was an official member.

Same with the Defenders.

Didn't it also list Andromeda, Cloud, Interloper and Manslaughter?