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Regarding how to kind of put things in order, let me tell you how I find stuff on the mobile or tablet app for MU.

I go to Browse, then Series, then search Daredevil in the search bar (you can also find him under the Characters option).

From there you should see:

Daredevil: 1964-1998

Places to start there include:

Issue #1 forward, which starts at the very, very beginning and is not recommended - it's super cheesy and not at all what you'll be used to coming from the show.

Frank Miller's infamous run, which begins with issue #168 and continues through to issue #191. This arc introduces Elektra and heavily features the assassin Bullseye, so if you're interested in where the show will go with Elektra in the upcoming season, it's interesting. It's also problematic in it's treatment of women because it was written in the 80's and it's Frank Miller, so YMMV there.

The return of Frank Miller and his infamous arc Born Again, which starts at issue #227 and continues through to issue #233. This is the arc you may have heard of where Kingpin finds out that Daredevil is Matt and takes him apart. It features the return of Karen Page and is even more problematic than Miller's earlier run on Daredevil, so again it's a personal thing as to whether you can ignore that or not and still enjoy it.

I personally skipped everything else in this section when I started reading, but some people will read right through from Miller if they're digging it. If you go from Miller's initial run to Born Again, you're not missing much.

There's also Daredevil: 1998-2011 which is my recommendation of where to start and my fave.

Starting points there include:

Issue #1, which is the beginning of Kevin Smith's run on the title. This was kind of not great for me - Quesada's art is awful - but it is the arc in which Karen Page dies, so you may want to read it to better understand that and for chronology reasons later.

My full wholehearted recommendation for where to start, which is Brian Michael Bendis' run which starts with issue #26 and runs through all the way to issue #81. This is the arc where Matt's secret identity is revealed to the world. Amazing Foggy interactions and depth of characterization there, and just a total win from beginning to end.

Brubaker's run which begins at issue #82 and runs through to almost the end of that section with issue #119 is also great, but you really shouldn't start there if you haven't read Bendis' run or you'll have difficulty following it. After that, they renumber themselves to original numbering and it skips from 119 to 500 (don't worry - Marvel Unlimited isn't cheating you out of 479 issues of the comic!) and that leads into Diggle's run which gets into an arc called Shadowland. Don't start there either.

And finally, there's a section called Daredevil: 2011-2014. This is Mark Waid's run, and as the other anons have pointed out it is an absolutely fantastic place to start. It continues into the section called 2014-Present and ended very recently.

The rest in the Daredevil category are all either limited series or one-offs, some of which can be very fun to read on their own with no other knowledge necessary and others of which are part of larger arcs. Of those, here's the ones I recommend that you can easily just read on their own whenever:

Daredevil Vs. Punisher, which will obviously prep you for Frank's appearance in Season 2

Daredevil: Dark Knights, which is a set of three stories that are all independent of one another and are just basically some stand-alone Daredevil adventures that are fun

Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, which is another Frank Miller story, and actually the one that inspired many things in Season 1 of the show. It introduces Stick.

Daredevil: Yellow, which is a throwback story that explores the early 60's era of Daredevil and retells it - it's vintage, very different from the show, but still really fun.

Sooooo... to put that in chronological order for you the way that I initially read it:

Daredevil 1964-1998 Issues #168-191 (Miller)

Daredevil 1964-1998 Issues #227-233 (Miller)

Daredevil: The Man Without Fear (Miller)

Black hole because the 90's were very terrible for comics, trust me on this

Daredevil: 1998-2011 Issues #1-8 (Smith)

There is an arc between #8 and #26 that features Echo that is interesting if you're reading chronologically

Daredevil: 1998-2011 Issues #26-81 (Bendis)

Daredevil: 1998-2011 Issues #82-119 (Brubaker) which you will absolutely want to continue with based on where Bendis' run leaves off)

Diggle's run then continues, and this leads into a separate crossover event called Shadowland that heavily features Matt

Daredevil: 2011-2014 (Waid)

Daredevil: 2014-Present (Waid)

Daredevil: Dark Nights fits in somewhere during Waid's run, while Daredevil vs. Punisher is set during Bendis' era but they don't really "fit in" chronologically.

So that's my really long-winded explanation of where to start with Daredevil in the comics. Take it all with a grain of salt.

TL;DR Start with Bendis' run beginning with Volume 2, Issue #26 and just go from there.

OP- omg thank you so much! that was so helpful :D

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