(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)
Before this, the only Fun Fact I knew about Dr. Mid-Nite was his tenuous grasp on proper spelling.
ReplyDeletePicking on a blind man's spelling? That's cold, bro...
ReplyDeleteHe wasn't born blind!
ReplyDeleteNo, but he did take a hand grenade to the face--that had to have damaged the spelling lobe of his brain!
ReplyDeleteOkay, hiring a blind lawyer (Matt Murdock): plausible.
ReplyDeleteBut going to a blind doctor? Who the hell are McNider's patients?
Mark--
ReplyDeleteA) This particular story said that now he was a writer of detective stories...I'm not sure if this was consistent canon (Golden Age, you know), but I imagine he mostly retired from medicine, but was available for consults (with everyone amazed how well the "blind" doctor was able to do)
B) Of course, he could still be a doctor to the super-hero community (at least those who knew his secret ID)...