Ophthalmologist Dr. Engstrom tended to Reardon, performing an experimental procedure that connected his optic nerves to the sensory cells in his fingertips and enabled him to see through them.

He then goes to apply for a job as an air marshal, which he passes with his talents and starts making plans to have his revenge on Batman.

[5] When incarcerated at Gotham State Penitentiary, Readon was kept in a jail cell, where the correction officers had his hands locked in a special opaque box to restrict his vision.

[6] During the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" storyline, Ten-Eyed Man was killed by Anti-Monitor's shadow demons before eventually being resurrected by the Psycho-Pirate.

In this new timeline, Ten-Eyed Man first appears among the inmates at Arkham Asylum who attack Batwing and Jim Corrigan.

[10] Ten-Eyed Man later kidnapped a girl named Jade who was under Killer Croc's protection and plans to sacrifice her to find out the doom that is coming for him.

[11] Batman, Jason Bard, and Killer Croc work to stop Ten-Eyed Man before he can sacrifice Jade so that he can open an inter-dimensional portal.

Unable to make out what caused the hole, Ten-Eyed Man knocks out Pete with a spell from his finger and heads to the hospital.

Back in the present, Ten-Eyed Man relates his story to Commissioner Renee Montoya, who has the guard give him a pizza.

[15][16] Ten-Eyed Man can see through optic nerves in his fingertips, giving him a complete 360 view and limited periscopic vision.

As a side-effect of his optic nerves being in his fingertips, Ten-Eyed Man's hands are sensitive and vulnerable to any kind of excessive force.