Wacky power #6 – bending steel
Okay, some people are going to hate me for this, but… having a heightened sense of touch does not allow you to bend steel unless you also have superhuman strength. Daredevil does not. I think he actually only did this a few times, but I know it’s one of those abilities that people consider to...
A History of the Radar Sense – Prologue
Anyone who knows me in DD-related circles is well aware of my fascination with Matt’s senses. Understanding his heightened senses is one thing – these should work like the ordinary senses of hearing, smell, touch and taste (though no one really cares that much about taste) with the exception of being heightened to levels far...
Wacky power #5 – Doctor, will my internal antenna give me a brain tumor?
This is one of the wackiest of them all. This is ability is wacky to the point of later having been outright denied in other sources. Early on in the history of the comic, Daredevil’s radar sense was often depicted as a kind of internal, all-purpose radiation/radio signal detecting device rather than as the simple,...
Wacky power #4 – Daredevil, art scholar?
Okay, time for one of those wacky powers again! This is from issue #235, written by Danny Fingeroth (his only work on the title) and pencilled by Steve Ditko. What we have here is Daredevil busting some arts thieves, and determining that they have stolen a genuine Picasso! Now how does he do this, you...
Wacky power #3 – may I read your aura?
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the word sense (noun) is defined as follows: “Mechanism by which information is received about one’s external or internal environment. Stimuli received by nerves, in some cases through specialized organs with receptor cells sensitive to one type of stimulus, are converted into impulses that travel to specialized areas of the...
