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[kecorvallis]

I was wondering about the specifics of Daredevil's Billy Club. It seems like it is more than just a Billy Club, and I was wondering what the specs were on it. What is it made of? How does it work? Are there variations?

[Falloutboy]

I too was wondering this, it seems to bounce off of things, sometimes hitting more than one thing, right back into DD's hand?

[Teklock]

I suck at good explanations, but here's what I can tell you.

Basicly, it's weighted and balanced perfectly so that it can perfectly nail objects and effectively go in the direction that DD aims it for. It also probably helps that DD can aim is good enough to get it to hit at angles so it'll veer off in another direction.

Think of it as pool. You know how expert pool players can do trick shots by bouncing the balls into the sides at a certain direction and cause them to go toward whatever hole their aiming for? Same concept. If he bounces it directly off of something it'll come directly back toward him, if he hits it at a certain angle, it'll bounce off and go into another direction. If he's, say, in an alley-way or room, he can bounce it at an angle to where it'll hit one wall, then bounce off another wall or object and return to him. But yes, think of pool. I imagine he learned such presision from a certain blind pool shark that taught him how to hone his senses. XD

Er..as for the specifics of the club: The implement separates into two parts: The straight portion contains a metal shaft and can be used as a weighted fighting baton, while the other section incorporates a grappling hook and cable mechanism that Daredevil uses to traverse the city skyline.

[emmie]

Hi, i don't know if i'll just add to your confusion on how it works, but in the special #1 (Gene Colan and Frank Giacoia) there's a blueprint for it, an explanation of how it works, this is what it says:

It can separate in the middle, there's a spring relese button which straightens the cane handle that's 'section A' of the divided cane and in 'section B' there's a release button to release the chord and if you press the button again the chord hooks to make a 'roof catching hook'. He sums it up by saying 'section A used for throwing, section B used for swinging'

Though if i remember rightly in one of the early issues, he also fitted the club with a little microphone, though i can't even remember why!
Hope this helped just even a little. x em

[Dash]

In reality, it doesn't work.

I mean come on, at one point they added "food capsules" to a good portion of the club.

But it goes to say, you basically have to be Daredevil to build it.

[Knatty Dreadnok]

[digodiego]

A little bit late, sorry =S
I think that since the 2nd volume, DD's club is not as the Gene Colan times. It can also be separated in two parts but those parts are joined with the cable so if DD throws one section, it continues joined with the otherone. The same when he swings above the city. Not as his first clubs where each part was used with a purpose independently of the other part.
But nowadays It seems that those two parts can be totally separated when DD fights so, there might be some mechanism to release the cable and free the clubs!
I think they need to create a mini-issue explaining briefly DD's powers and club! as in the old times!

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[Darkdevil]

I've been catching up on some Silver Age DD. What Matt does with the billy club in #4 is beyond belief yet supremely funny.

In dealing with the Purple Man, Matt hides a secret spy tape recorder in the handle, modifies the club to shoot out a roll of chemically-treated foil paper (to ensnare Killgrave and nullify his power) but most incredibly, takes the club, cracks it in half, and throws it as a boomerang to knock a gun out of a felon's hand!


Forget Cap's Shield, I want DD's Billy Club!

[thOmAsles]

My 2nd favorite character is daredevil with his weapon billy club.
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