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Clifford DeVoe was a failed lawyer who bitterly ended his career in 1971. Realizing that many of the criminals he had encountered had the skills but not the brains to rule Gotham City's underworld, he started a new career as the brain behind small-time villains. As the Thinker, he was defeated by the Flash (Berry Allen), his most recurrent foe. He always sought out new scientific devices to use and his most important was the "Thinking Cap", a metal hat that could project mental force. The Thinker would use this device repeatedly over the years. In the 1980's, DeVoe accepted a mission with the Task Force X in exchange for a full pardon. Although he was seemingly killed by the Black Archer during this mission, he turned up alive soon after only to be dying from cancer due to the cap. His former foe, the Flash, attempted to save him with the Thinking Cap but DeVoe refused, preferring to rest in peace.

When the re-formed JLA moved into the New York City building in the year 2006, Dr. TO Morrow designed a computer system based on the original Thinker's "Thinking Cap" technology and modeled after his brain pattern. Not surprisingly, the system gained consciousness and took on a visual "hologram form". As the new Thinker, it joined Vandal Savage's modern Injustice Society, provided the villains with information about the JLA members, and turned the heroes' own HQ against them. He was defeated by the second Star-Spangled Kid and disappeared into cyberspace. He resurfaced in Keystone City to battle Wally West, the then-current Flash, in an attempt to control every brain in Keystone to increase his power.

Description
Clifford DeVoe was a failed lawyer who bitterly ended his career in 1971. Realizing that many of the criminals he had encountered had the skills but not the brains to rule Gotham City's underworld, he started a new career as the brain behind small-time villains. As the Thinker, he was defeated by the Flash (Berry Allen), his most recurrent foe. He always sought out new scientific devices to use and his most important was the "Thinking Cap", a metal hat that could project mental force. The Thinker would use this device repeatedly over the years. In the 1980's, DeVoe accepted a mission with the Task Force X in exchange for a full pardon. Although he was seemingly killed by the Black Archer during this mission, he turned up alive soon after only to be dying from cancer due to the cap. His former foe, the Flash, attempted to save him with the Thinking Cap but DeVoe refused, preferring to rest in peace.

When the re-formed JLA moved into the New York City building in the year 2006, Dr. TO Morrow designed a computer system based on the original Thinker's "Thinking Cap" technology and modeled after his brain pattern. Not surprisingly, the system gained consciousness and took on a visual "hologram form". As the new Thinker, it joined Vandal Savage's modern Injustice Society, provided the villains with information about the JLA members, and turned the heroes' own HQ against them. He was defeated by the second Star-Spangled Kid and disappeared into cyberspace. He resurfaced in Keystone City to battle Wally West, the then-current Flash, in an attempt to control every brain in Keystone to increase his power.