Doctors Bradford & Micheal Thorne were renowned surgeons of Gotham City with a curious addiction... to crime! As the Crime Doctors, both men twice matched wits with the Darknight Detectives, the Batmen, using tools such as their head reflectors and medicinal bag of gimmicks.
While the Earth-One Thorne crossed passes with the conniving Sterlng Silversmith, the Earth-Two version dealt with more common crooks. Both men not only treated the underworld by means of their "Crime Clinics”, they also participated in felonies themselves. Although it was simply for the thrill, not for the money.
During their second encounters with the Doctors, the Batmen found these threats eliminated. Bradford Thorne, the Earth-One Doctor, sustained brain damage (which meant that Batman's secret identity that Thorne discovered while treating as Bruce Wayne and later battling the Caped Crusader, was lost).
Michael Bradford, the Earth-Two Doctor, was shot by one of his henchmen for not having saved his wife. While he would not return, Bradford would be revived during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Whether he recovered from his head trauma or had been plucked from another time period is unknown. Regardless, that was his final appearance.
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