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...
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 #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...
