Daredevil Vol. 2 #1

In November 1998, Marvel launched Daredevil Vol. 2 #1, featuring Matt Murdock as the Man Without Fear. Written by film director Kevin Smith, penciled by Joe Quesada, and inked by Jimmy Palmiotti, it was the opening title of the Marvel Knights imprint and the start of the eight-issue "Guardian Devil" arc. In this issue, Matt Murdock receives a farewell letter from his lover Karen Page, learning that she has decided to leave New York and search for herself alone. Troubled, he hears a commotion in the street while at confession: a young woman clutching an infant flees desperately after her parents have just been murdered. Matt becomes Daredevil and stops the pursuing car, but fails to find the mother and child. The young woman then walks straight into the law office shared by Matt and Foggy Nelson, claiming the child was conceived by the Holy Spirit and that a vision told her Matt is Daredevil and the child's guardian. She entrusts the baby to Matt and leaves. After this scene, the question of whether the child is the Savior or the Antichrist gradually draws Matt into a series of crises, thoroughly opening up his Catholic questioning of faith, duty, and guilt. This volume is Vol. 2 #1, the opening of the entire "Guardian Devil" story and the groundwork for the later turning point in Karen Page's fate in the Daredevil series.