Daredevil Science

January 6, 2009

Hearing heartbeats

People who know me from my posts on the ManWithoutFear.com message board are probably well aware of my interest in superhero science (now why does […]

December 6, 2008

The truth behind those super-powered taste buds

News flash everyone, I'm not the only geek with an unhealthy interest in making comic book science make sense. I just came across this blog […]

November 23, 2008

A history of the radar sense #3

Well, it's time for part three of my insane quest to chronicle the radar sense. Why the radar sense, one might ask? Well, it's the […]

October 28, 2008

Wacky power #15 – Heat sensing and the groovy stuff you can do with it

Here's an example from Daredevil #131, by Marv Wolfman and Bob Brown (with Klaus Janson on inks), of Daredevil doing something he's presumably quite good […]

July 24, 2008

Wacky power #14 – Discerning photographs

I have a couple of panels ready for this post and the distantly related "seeing goof" I'll get to next, so I thought I'd just […]

July 23, 2008

Wacky power #13 – X-ray vision

I'll be the first to admit that I don't like Daredevil's radar sense penetrating solid objects. Now, don't get me wrong, if we are in […]

July 13, 2008

Wacky power #12 – Daredevil lands the Avenger’s Quinjet

The careful observer may remember one of the very first posts in this series, in which Daredevil lands a rocket guided only by his uncanny […]

June 19, 2008

Wacky power #11 – Reading computer screens… by touch

Since this one came up in the comments section of a previous post, and I've been thinking of posting it for a while, I decided […]

May 31, 2008

A history of the radar sense #2

Well, it's been a while since the first installment of this series, that looks at how Daredevil's consistently hard to pin down radar sense has […]

May 14, 2008

Wacky power #10 – Daredevil: paleobotanist

Here is another panel from Daredevil #12, suggested a while back by fellow DD fan Francesco (*waves*). This panel is funny for a couple of […]

May 14, 2008

Wacky power #9 – What time is it really?

Well, I thought I'd get back to posting again with a couple of wacky power posts, just to warm up. This one, from Daredevil #12 […]

April 30, 2008

Daredevil senses and alien space craft in Daredevil #28

Wacky power #8 – Daredevil “senses” something (again)

Yes, another unscheduled post that I just had to write. Before getting to the wacky power of the day, I also thought I'd mention that […]

April 14, 2008

Stan Lee at the 2014 Phoenix Comiccon. Photo by: Gage Skidmore

Stan Lee on “superhero science”

Well, anyone who knows me knows my fascination with "superhero science." Rather than bore anyone with my random speculations, let's take a look at an […]

April 12, 2008

Matt is about to meet the Matador at a party.

A history of the radar sense #1 – From the origin through the early “power upgrade”

As promised - though a little late - here's the first of many looks at the portrayal of the radar sense. The "prologue" to this […]

March 26, 2008

Matt speedreading at the office.

Wacky power #7 – Speedreading

Okay, you know all those websites that supposedly teach you how to read at incredible speed? They usually focus on things like cutting down on […]

March 25, 2008

Matt bending bars of steel.

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 […]

March 20, 2008

Matt picks up a radio transmission while on a boat.

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 […]

March 16, 2008

Daredevil grabs the robbers' haul and uncovers a painting

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 […]

March 9, 2008

Panel from Daredevil #4, by Stan Lee and Joe Orlando

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. […]

March 4, 2008

Daredevil lands a rocket, from Daredevil #2 by Stan Lee and Joe Orlando

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 […]

March 1, 2008

Wacky power #1 – sensing the microvoltage of the human brain

We'll start with the power that you often find on various lists, but has never, to my knowledge, been seen in the pages of Daredevil. […]