Daredevil Can Officially Tell Different Colors by Touch

Daredevil Can Officially Tell Different Colors by Touch

Daredevil’s most popular trait is his blindness. In older Marvel Comics, it reveals Matt is able to sense colors due to his sensitive touch.

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Daredevil Can Officially Tell Different Colors by Touch

In the 1960s, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby decided to grant the superheroes of Marvel Comics human problems; it probably doesn’t get much more human than the life of Matthew Murdock, AKA Daredevil. At a young age, Matt saves the life of an older man from a truck of toxic waste. The vehicle crashes and spills waste on Matt’s eyes. Although this accident causes his blindness, his four remaining senses give him other ways to see.

Daredevil #1, by Lee, Kirby, and Bill Everett, is both Matt Murdock’s origin and first appearance. Matt explains his unique abilities in narration. Foggy Nelson, his friend, and future law partner asks how he performs so well in school after the accident. Matt tells him that “it all seems to come easy” to him now. His thoughts further explain that he can hear heartbeats, recognize anyone by smelling their perfumes and odors, taste how many grains of salt are in food, and feel how many bullets there are in a revolver due to its weight. In a few panels, Lee even reveals Matt can distinguish colors apart purely by touch.

When Matt finally decides to become a crimefighter, he makes his first costume. As he stitches the yellow fabric together, he states that “each colored fabric has a different feel.” Because Daredevil #1 is his very first appearance, it means The Man Without Fear has always had this ability. In Daredevil #339, by Dan G. Chichester and Alexander Jubran, Daredevil tells Ben Urich about his sensitive fingertips. He can sense a photograph of Urich and his wife purely by touching it. According to an article from “The Other Murdock Papers” (a fan organization dedicated to all things Daredevil), Matt’s explanation to sense light with his fingertips from Daredevil #339 actually does make sense. On the other hand, Stan Lee’s explanation in Daredevil #1 isn’t scientifically accurate; unless, of course, the toxic waste that blinded Matt had some strange, inexplicable quality.

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At first, readers might think Daredevil’s powers are logical. Some colors indeed absorb more heat than others. However, “The Other Murdock Papers” article debunks Stan Lee’s narrative inventions. Blind and color-blind people use light-based devices to distinguish color in real life; these devices are notorious for faulty results. Recent technological advances allow color-blind people to use cutting-edge eyewear, like EnChroma sunglasses, to enhance the outcome for red-green colorblindness. These lenses have nothing to do with sensitive touch or temperature, though.

Although Daredevil has an everchanging set of sensual abilities, there has always been some sense of superhuman quality to his powers. This fluctuation isn’t necessarily a bad thing. After all, Matt Murdock lives in a universe where heroes of Asgard battle firey demons. It’s alright for Marvel Comics to grant supernatural qualities to the toxic waste that blinded Daredevil.

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