MIDNIGHTMIDNIGHT
Real Name: Dave Clark
Class: Human
Occupation: Radio announcer, mysteryman, former boxer
Group Affiliation: All-Star Squadron, Freedom Fighters
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: New York City, New York, 1940s era
First Appearance: Smash Comics #18 (Quality) (January, 1941)
Powers: Midnight was a good fighter and detective. He was armed with both conventional handguns and a vacuum-gun that shot a suction cup attached to a cord. Midnight wore a wrist radio to communicate with his allies.History: Dave Clark was a radio announcer for WXAM who filled-in one night for the narrator of "The Man Called Midnight" a serial about a crimefighter. That night Clark saw a building collapse and learned that the Carleton Construction Company used shoddy materials in the building's construction. Clark was inspired by the Midnight serial to take on the masked identity of Midnight and beat up Morris Carleton, owner of the construction company, until he confessed to his crime. Midnight went on to a successful career as a mysteryman.
Midnight joined the All-Star Squadron during WWII. Midnight and a group of other Squadron members later formed the Freedom Fighters.
(Who's Who Update '88 #2) - Sometime after the war Midnight's mysteryman career came to an end.
Comments: Created by Jack Cole.
In the pre-Crisis DC Universe Midnight lived on Earth 2, operated out of Big City (Who's Who Update '88 #2 established his post-Crisis base of operations as New York City) and may have been inspired to become Midnight after reading about the adventures of the Spirit (as theorized in Who's Who #15).
Midnight was originally published by Quality Comics, which DC obtained the rights to in 1956.
Midnight received profiles in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #15 and Who's Who Update '88 #2.
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