Golden Age Dr. Mid-Nite (Charles McNider) appreciation (2019)

[MajorHoy]

NOTE: This thread is to serve as continuation of the previous Golden Age Dr. Mid-Nite (Charles McNider) appreciation thread, which can be found at

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ciation-thread

from the previous version (originally created 01-23-2018):

(from All-American Comics #24, cover-dated March 1941)

The original Dr. Mid-Nite (note the spelling) first appeared as a feature in All-American Comics #25 (April 1941), a book that already was home to such features as

* Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
* The Atom (Al Pratt)
* Scribbly and the Red Tornado (Ma Hunkle)
* Hop Harrigan
NOTE: both Scribbly and Hop Harrigan had been features in the book since back in issue #1, cover-dated April 1939

He was a character who was blinded, but then gained special vision abilities as a result. (Mind you, this was more than twenty years before Marvel's Matt Murdock saw the light of day, but almost two years after District Attorney Anthony Quinn (The Black Bat) had been blinded and later gained the ability to see at night in the pulp magazine Black Book Detective.)

From Dr. McNider's origin story:

to be continued . . .

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from the re-telling of Doctor Mid-Nite's origin in Secret Origins #20 (November 1987):

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Quite possibly my favorite Dr. Mid-Nite image, ever...

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A few more pages from the re-telling of Doctor Mid-Nite's origin, as presented in Secret Origins #20 (November 1987):

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from All-American Comics #26 (May 1941):

[signalman112]

Blind Justice: The Super Team up of Dr. Mid-Nite and Daredevil.


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[MajorHoy]

Blind Justice: The Super Team up of Dr. Mid-Nite and Daredevil.

For anybody who wants the original source for this creative team-up that never actually happened, https://braveandboldlost.blogspot.co...daredevil.html

By the way, I found another made-up cover with these two:

with the Dr. Mid-Nite portion coming from the cover of Secret Origins #20



https://braveandboldlost.blogspot.co...in-second.html

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From the 1993 Skybox DC Cosmic Teams card set:

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This was also in the previous version of this thread:

from All-Star Squadron #48 (August 1985):

Dr. Mid-Nite was also included on a beautiful cover for Amazing World of DC Comics by Marshall Rogers published back in 1977.


full cover:

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from All-American Comics #27 (June 1941):

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from All-American Comics #28 (July 1941):

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from All-American Comics #29 (August 1941):

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from All-American Comics #30 (September 1941):