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...
Wacky power #2 – Daredevil lands a rocket
Well, this is not so much an example of a wacky power as just a case of Daredevil using his powers in wacky ways. You see, in Dardevil #2, our favorite hero finds himself in a bit of a predicament. Having been sent into space by Electro while unconscious, he has to figure out a...
Wacky power #1 – sensing the microvoltage of the human brain
This series of posts will be looking at some of Daredevil’s more questionable – or downright wacky – abilities. We’ll start with the power that often gets listed on various sites (such as Marvel’s character wiki), but has never actually, to my knowledge, been seen in the pages of Daredevil: being able to sense the...
