#doctor midnite

[splooosh]

“Spectacular Interdimensional Struggle”

Mike Sekowsky

[usedgingertwinkhole]

No Hank listed because Hank isn't a JSA member he just fucks them

[dcdreamblog]

Outside of their formation and disbanding, what were some of the JSA's big events that happened in their original tenure?

"Hey Sid, can you fit the entire breadth of your discipline into a blog post?"

I stared at this one, for DAYS, could not think for the life of me how on earth you expected me to tackle that bomb on wheels. Best I can tell, or at least best I can imagine actually being workable in DOING is that you're asking me for a basic primer timeline of the team's wartime history. Which I can do because I happen to know that timeline inside, outside and backwards.

December, 1940. The Justice Society is assembled after a battle with Valkyries summoned via Hitler's Spear of Destiny overwhelms The Flash and Green Lantern, leading to their near execution. The tide is turned when Dr. Fate and Spectre teleport in with fellow heroes in tow and the Nazi's experimental "Amerikabomber" and its infantry "Murder Machine" are destroyed. (Founding Membership: Atom, Sandman, Hourman, Flash, Green Lantern, Dr. Fate, The Spectre, Hawkman,)

January, 1941. The Society establishes its first headquarters via a secretly rented hotel floor in Civic City.

April, 1941. The Justice Society is officially granted FBI security clearance and tasked with breaking up the "Greyshirts" a pro Axis militia across the United States.

July, 1941. The Justice Society faces their first masked criminal. A rather unremarkable kingpin by the name of Mr. X.

September, 1941. The Flash takes a step back from active duty and releases his role as chairman. Johnny Thunder is inducted into active membership.

December 1941. The Pearl Harbor attacks lead to the foundation of the All Star Squadron, which the Justice Society is officially folded into as a member organization. Renamed by executive order to "The Justice Battalion" but the name is mostly unused in contemporary and even less in historical sources.

January, 1942. Doctor Midnite and Starman are offered full membership in the Justice Society. Green Lantern relinquishes chairmanship and active membership to further focus his efforts in Gotham. Hawkman takes the chairman position which he will hold for the rest of team's original tenure.

February, 1942. Hourman takes a leave of absence, the first time medical problems have been caused by his dependence on Miraclo.

March, 1942. The Justice Society makes their first international debut as they expose and defeat Axis influence across central and south america.

At some point following this, The Sandman changes costumes and adopts his young ward Sandy who begins attending Society meetings as an associate member.

June, 1942. Wonder Woman is officially granted membership. She is listed as the team's "secretary" on government documents due to the Society's membership technically being a military organization at this point in time.

July, 1942. Concerned at the hold the ancient spirit Nabu was taking on his actions, Kent Nelson stop wearing the Helmet of Nabu and enchants a half helm for himself, limiting his powers but allowing him to continue as Dr. Fate

August, 1942. The Society is the first to clash with the Japanese saboteur organization known as the Black Dragon Society. Whose membership includes the later infamous Dragon King.

February, 1943. The Society first run afoul of Henry King Sr. known as Brainwave. Wonder Woman assembles the team's female allies to assist, this "Girl's Corp" is never recorded as an official organization but is kept on call when needed.

June, 1944. The Sandman and Dr. Fate step back from active membership in the JSA and stop regularly attending meetings. Although they remain on call with the organization.

December, 1944. The Society's membership is officially trimmed from 9 members to 7 where it will remain for the rest of the war. They face the first criminal to call himself Psycho-Pirate.

March, 1945. Wildcat and Mr. Terrific are granted full membership in the Justice Society. Replacing The Spectre and Starman who step back from active membership.

May, 1945. V-E day, the Axis powers in Europe are officially disbanded and the influence of the Spear of Destiny is lifted from the continent.

June, 1945. The Flash and Green Lantern resume active membership following the end of the war in Europe and the abating of sabotage attempts on their home cities.

August 1945. VJ day, the Japanese empire surrenders unconditionally, ending WWII in its entirety. The wartime clearances, laws and expectations governing the membership and organization are dissolved. Wonder Woman is "granted full membership" at last.

April, 1947. The Justice Society first meets and faces off against The Wizard.

June, 1947. The Justice Society first meets and defeats Per Degaton

November, 1947. The Justice Society meets possibly the greatest challenge of their carrer to that point. The Injustice Society of the World! Made up of The Gambler, Vandal Savage, Brainwave, The Wizard, Per Degaton and The Thinker.

January, 1948. The original Black Canary, after assisting on a case, is granted provisional membership.

April, 1948. Johnny Thunder steps back from active membership, his seat is opened to Black Canary who is granted full membership.

July, 1948. A second Injustice Society assembles, this time made up of Harlequin, Fiddler, Icicle, Huntress, Wizard and Sportsmaster.

October, 1948. The JSA moves their headquarters from their Civic City hotel floor to their currently standing Brownstone in Gotham City. The reason as to why is unknown for many years but eventually revealed to be that the JSA no longer fully trusted the government and thus wanted a base that they could monitor, defend and own themselves.

April 1949. Doris Lee-Knight, the wife of Ted Knight AKA Starman, is murdered by Starman's nemesis The Mist. This, combined with mental stresses caused by his participation in the Manhattan Project causes a mental break in Knight who commits himself to psychiatric care.

June, 1949. The Atom makes his first public appearance in his 2nd costume.

August, 1950. The Atom makes his first public display of superhuman strength, gained from a near lethal dose of radiation from the reluctant villain Cyclotron.

March, 1951. The last public case of the JSA sees them rescuing a quartet of kidnapped detectives.

April, 1951. the House Unamerican Activities Committee brings a case against the Justice Society, demanding they unveil their identities and officially become organs of the US government. The Justice Society disavows this ruling, vanishing from the courtroom and going into hiding for the following decades. The Justice Society is disbanded by the Keane Act, passed the following December on the same day as the Society's original foundation.

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PIETER CROSS/DR. MID-NITE & MICHAEL HOLT/MR. TERRIFIC in JSA (199)

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justice society of america (2022-2024) variant covers by tony harris

[nitpickrider]

Oh no, no, no Lex. Forget the Superman family. Doctor Midnite is coming out of retirement to break you in half for stealing his gimmick Action Comics 286

[cosmicmordecai]

Justice Society of the past, present, future, and beyond.

[ufonaut]

He killed my team in seconds, but this time it’s different. I’m not supposed to be here, so I don’t think he can “see” what I’m going to do... and I think he’s gone after Doctor Fate first because he can’t see what you’re going to do either, thanks to your helmet.

Justice Society of America (2022) #4

[cryptocollectibles]

Doctor Mid-Nite #1 (1999) by DC Comics

Written by Matt Wagner, drawn by John K Snyder III.

[lord-of-leeches]

[splooosh]

“nobody knows”

Rags Morales

[usedgingertwinkhole]

Okay the main reason that you should read Infinity Inc. Do you like cute college students who are fun together? Do you like found family? Do you like your favorite characters being friends forever and nothing bad happening to them at all? 

Well TOO BAD! If you read Infinity Inc. your favorite character has a 92% chance of either dying or going evil! You will love these stupid children and you will be so upset that DC refuses to have an actual full Infinity Inc. Reunion and instead decides that every few years former members should attempt to murder each other. 

For characters you have: Boy with daddy issues, other boy with daddy issues, gay angry boy with daddy issues, (unfortunately not canon gay yet) boy with EVIL daddy issues, and 7’6” himbo. It’s just... daddy issues all the way down. Also sexist 1940s man who is incredibly annoying. Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, or Jade, who you should all know, and frankly I think if your only exposure to Jen is Kyle Green Lantern you should be OBLIGATED to read Infinity Inc. I have seen some awful stuff flung around about her by Kyle fans. “Jade is only important to comics to tie Kyle to Alan and since she can’t do that properly she might as well stay dead” and that’s just what I’m willing to quote. 

Read Jennie-Lynn RIGHT NOW to properly appreciate her or learn to keep her name out of your mouth. I say while shipping her other ex with her dad and her brother. 

Lyta Trevor who has been through so much and deserves so much more than being hated because of Sandman, you do not know Lyta and you have not read her struggles, how dare you, I am assigning you the homework of Read Infinity Inc. or shut up. 

Okay that is the big sexisms it’s time to get to the big homophobias, or both. Hey remember how the mini series that Beth and Yolanda were killed off in either heavily implied that they were dating or ramped up the sexual tension so much that it seems that they are. I think you should read Infinity Inc. and join me in demanding that Geoff Johns brings back that relationship. Yeah it would be cute. 

Read Infinity Inc. now to fall in love with the cutest college age idiots you’ve ever read, ship a ship that is definitely considered problematic now (it’s Hank and Todd I don’t mean problematic problematic I mean, my god people are weird about non-canon gay ships involving canon gay characters, they just have a ridiculous amount of UST and you have to understand Hank was absolutely in love with both twins you have to you have to), be destroyed by the only death in the main series as you learn to care about them all, and also read further in the main characters lives and see the horrible shit they all but especially Hank gets subjected to... 

I forgot someone... 

MISTER BONES 

MOST IMPORTANTLY 

Infinity Inc. is the origin of this meme!

[dcdreamblog]

For the person who asked about Norwegian superheroes, I know the Dr. Mid-Nite here in Portsmouth is an immigrant from Norway. (I know this because when he saved my great aunt, another Norwegian immigrant, her concussion was making it difficult for her to remember English and it turned out they spoke the same dialect. Tante Inge has now passed on peacefully, but she always bragged about our hometown hero being from her country)

(Image of Doctor Midnite II, standing on the edge of a church at the center of Portsmouth City, OR which seems to be a central spot for his patrols) Correct! And what a wonderful story to share with us! Yes, the second Doctor Midnite is well known to be Norwegian, either a immigrant or simply a descendant. Of course no one knows his specific background due to his secret identity but his accent has been identified I'm told as being from the Vestland region.

I didn't bring him up during my discussion of Norwegian heroes because he doesn't fit the criteria I assumed the ask was made in. He doesn't operate IN Norway for the most part and his personal background is opaque so I can't and won't make any judgements as to the "intensity" of his Norwegian identity.

Portsmouth City is actually known for its rather large and robust Norwegian population, especially for a city so far west of the northern midwest where most Nordic Americans settled. It's also one of the pieces of general evidence given that he and the original Dr. Midnite, Charles McNider was American born and, more to the point, never married.

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PIETER CROSS/DR. MID-NITE & MICHAEL HOLT/MR. TERRIFIC in JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA (2006)

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Why They’re Late: Infinity Inc !

Made this a month ago, but forgot to post..

[nitpickrider]

Doc Midnite I could KISS you. A doctor in a superhero universe looking at an ill ally with mystical connections and saying, "You know what, it might just be magic." That is WAY rarer than it ought to be.