For a lot of TV fans, it won’t be the Marvel logo that draws but the participation of Drew Goddard, one of the best TV creators of the last two decades, as evidenced by his work on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Angel”, and “LOST”. Hardcore fans of those shows need only know that he wrote “Conversations with Dead People” and “The Man from Tallahassee” to put him on the TV writer version of Mt. Rushmore. Goddard wrote the first two episodes of “Daredevil” and then had to jet to work on “Sinister Six,” but he poured the foundation for the show and then passed it on to Steven S. DeKnight, a fellow graduate of the Whedon-verse and acclaimed writer from “Buffy”, “Angel”, and “Dollhouse”, as well as the creator of the “Spartacus” series on Starz. These are talented TV creators and the pedigree shows right from the opening scenes.

Much like Bruce Wayne, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) is merely a man who has turned tragedy into something that pushes him to be better than the average man. There are no superpowered heroes or villains in “Daredevil”—just men more driven to polar extremes of good or evil than anyone you know. Murdock was blinded by a car accident when he was a child, which enhanced his other senses, allowing him to “see” the world around him in a way that most people can’t. He can hear raised heartbeats, smell specific colognes down the hall to know someone is coming, etc. Murdock also became an attorney, opening a small practice with friend Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson). He defends the needy during the day and serves as their vigilante at night, dressed in all-black, dispensing justice by breaking bones.

In the premiere, Murdock and Nelson get handed a unique case in the story of Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll of “True Blood”), a woman found covered in blood next to a dead man, professing her innocence. She went out with a guy, had a drink, and the next thing she remembers is being arrested. What happened? It turns out that Page was working at a major corporation and uncovered some, shall we say, improprieties in the bookkeeping. Her story connects Murdock and Nelson to the criminal enterprises of the one and only Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), a man whose name isn’t even allowed to be spoken by his underlings and who Marvel fans will know better as Kingpin. She also crosses paths with an investigative journalist played by the great Vondie Curtis-Hall, who recognizes that Page doesn’t fully grasp the dangerous world in which she now treads.