He dwells in a world of eternal night --
but the blackness is filled with sounds and scents, tastes and textures
most men cannot perceive. Although attorney Matt Murdock is blind, his
other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. He stalks the
streets at night, a relentless avenger of justice: Daredevil, the Man
Without Fear! His fingers can feel the faint impressions of ink on a
printed page, allowing him to read by touch. The rest of his skin is
equally sensitive, enabling him to perceive minute changes in the
temperature and pressure of the surrounding atmosphere. Daredevil can
identify individuals by smell alone, no matter how they might try to
camouflage their natural odor. He can hear a person's heartbeat at a
distance of 20 feet, tell whether someone is lying by listening to changes
in the heart's rhythm and identify people by the specific patterns of
their heartbeats. Also, Daredevil developed the ability to sense the
proximity and arrangement of objects as a result of the mutagenic effects
of his exposure to the same radiation that heightened his senses.
