Some super-hero "doctors" were also MDs in their secret identities...
....such as this "creature of the night", who, sadly, never made it big, despite having a long life as a second-stringer!
Though the character retained his license and served as a consultant to other MDs, he wasn't permitted to perform surgery.
(He occasionally did so in emergencies, as you've seen above!)
Note: While Charles McNider's costumed persona was comics' first blind super-hero (beating Marvel's Daredevil out by 23 years), he wasn't the first blind super-hero!
(A pulp magazine character called the Black Bat preceded him by a couple of years)
Dr Mid-Nite had a long run as a back-up feature in DC's All-American Comics, as well as being a member of comics' first super-hero team, the Justice Society of America.
But when superheroes (except for Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and a couple of others) faded out after World War II, his strip was one of the casualties.
Then came the 1960s, with both the Batman and James Bond fads in full-swing, Mid-Nite was revived with the rest of the Justice Society...albeit with a whole new modus operandi and lots of medical-oriented gimmicks...
The good Doctor eventually went back to his nighttime activities and blackout bombs.
Charles McNider was killed during the "Zero Hour" event which ran through all of DC Comics in 1986.
But the Dr Mid-Nite name has been continued by two other characters in DC Comics, both of whom are MDs rendered blind by villains!
Plus, the good doctor appeared on the recent Stargirl TV series, both as Charles McNider in flashbacks to the Golden Age, and Beth Chapel, who, in the present, finds his helmet (which contains an AI progammed with McNider's brain patterns) and goggles which have heads-up displays!
If readers ask for them, I'll do additional posts...
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Interesting that the whole story comes down to "turn off the device and reboot", which was all-but unknown back in 1963!
