5 Fun Facts About Doctor Mid-Nite

#1--Doctor Mid-Nite was pretty buff:

(Sub-fact: 1940's criminals could tell your measurements just by looking at you)

#2--Charles McNider had some odd personal habits:

(Sub-fact: Charles McNider had surprisingly little sense of privacy or shame)

#3--Despite his uncanny vision, Doctor Mid-Nite apparently had crappy reflexes:

Unable to dodge a gun thrown at him from 20 feet away?

(Sub-fact: Doctor Mid-Nite is terribly unclear on the concept of pretending to not be able to see in order to preserve his secret identity)

#4--Doctor Mid-Nite is a master of ventriloquism and puppetry:




(Sub-fact: 1940s criminals were terribly, terribly stupid)

#5--Charles McNider is a master of hypnotism:

(Sub-fact: again, 1940s criminals are stupider than Jupiter)

BONUS FACT: If you throw poker chips at a criminal, they go completely blind:


(Sub-fact: The noise from sweeping stacks of poker chips off of a counter is "BRROOMM," and of course that bears NO relation whatsoever to the fact that the story was written by John Broome)

From All-American Comics # 88 (1947), as reprinted in 100-Page Super Spectacular #20 (1973)