The Crime Doctor is the name of two fictional characters in the DC Comics universe. The first Crime Doctor first appeared in Detective Comics #77 (July 1943), and was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
The Crime Doctor is surgeon Matthew Thorne – originally named "Bradford Thorne". In post-Crisis continuity, it has been revealed he is the brother of the Gotham City gangster Rupert Thorne.
Thorne started out as a rogue physician in Gotham City, ...
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The Crime Doctor is the name of two fictional characters in the DC Comics universe. The first Crime Doctor first appeared in Detective Comics #77 (July 1943), and was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
The Crime Doctor is surgeon Matthew Thorne – originally named "Bradford Thorne". In post-Crisis continuity, it has been revealed he is the brother of the Gotham City gangster Rupert Thorne.
Thorne started out as a rogue physician in Gotham City, setting up an illegal clinic and treating criminals for money. He was stopped and apprehended time and again by the Batman.
For a while, it seemed that Thorne's mind had been destroyed due to mercury poisoning at the hands of the Sterling Silversmith, but Thorne later returned to his criminal career, his mind seemingly intact. The Crime Doctor usually never took part in physical battles against superheroes, but he was recruited by Lex Luthor and Brainiac into their supervillain army during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Initially, the Crime...
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