Daredevil Vol. 3 #7

This volume is issue #7 of Daredevil Vol. 3, the 2011 relaunch, written by Mark Waid with line art by Paolo Rivera, inks by Joe Rivera, colors by Javier Rodriguez, and published by Marvel on December 21, 2011. The story takes place around the Christmas holidays: Matt Murdock honors a volunteer commitment by accompanying a group of children from a school for the blind on a bus trip out of the city. The bus overturns after hitting a deer, the driver is killed, and Matt injures his ankle. To lead the children out of the snowbound Catskills, he puts on his Daredevil costume as a guide, but the heavy snowfall severely disrupts the radar sense on which he depends to 'see' the world. These children are precisely the ones most afraid of leaving school and entering the 'real world'; panic, cold, and injury repeatedly undermine Matt's leadership, and when he collapses in the chaos, the children instead band together to save him. Told through minimal dialogue and panels rich in negative space, the issue portrays 'a hero's helplessness' and is one of the most acclaimed single issues of Waid's run, winning the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue. This is issue #7 of the series, corresponding to legacy numbering Daredevil #519.