All-American Comics #25

DC ⋅ 1941
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Key Facts

1st appearance and origin of Dr. Mid-Nite, a surgeon who is blind in the light but can see perfectly in the dark

Hop Harrigan becomes Guardian Angel

Issue Details

Publisher

DC

Artist

Howard Purcell

Writer

Various Writers

Published

April 1941

Synopsis

A collection of comics and stories, including -- "Sabotage at the Steel Mills" , featuring the Green Lantern :   Irene Miller is assigned to do a story on sabotage at the Sterling Steel Mill.  Alan Scott doesn't want her handling the steel mill case alone, so he fakes illness in order to leave work early. He changes into Green Lantern and follows her to Sterling Steel. -- "The Hunt for Earl Evans" , featuring the Atom :   Al and Mary witness some criminals escaping from the Police, and Mary follows them in her own car. But when the crooks have a flat tire, they kidnap Mary and escape in her car. -- "How He Began" , featuring Doctor Mid-Nite , in his first appearance:   Blinded by a mobster's bomb, Dr. McNider gives up the practice of medicine to write articles for crime magazines. But a chance accident, with an owl crashing through the former doctor's window during the night, allows McNider to discover that he can see in the dark [as well as in the daylight with special infra-red goggles he creates], so he decides to adopt the secret identity of Dr. Mid-Nite to round up "Killer" and bring him to justice for his crimes. PLUS :  Hop Harrigan, Scribbly, Jimmy Stone, Adventures in the Unknown, and more!!

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