PORTER DEREK
Real Name: Porter Derek V
Identity/Class: Human
Occupation: Drug smuggler
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Harold, Christine Palmer
Known Relatives: Edna Porter (aunt), Derek Porter III (grandfather, deceased)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Sea Cliff Manor, Boston, Massachusetts
First Appearance: Night Nurse I#4 (May, 1973)
Powers/Abilities: Derek Porter was skilled at subterfuge.
Height: 6' (by approximation)
Weight: 170 lbs. (by approximation)
Eyes: Black
Hair: Brown/Reddish
History:
(Night Nurse I#4 (fb) - BTS) - Derek Porter was paralyzed in a boating accident, and was told by his doctors that he would never walk again. After several months he regained his ability to walk, but did not tell his Aunt Edna. Because his family's wealth had been all but depleted, Derek turned to drug smuggling. He spread horrible rumors about his home at Sea Cliff Manor to ward people away, while he used a nearby lighthouse to signal his contact's boat.
(Night Nurse I#4) - Aunt Edna hired nurse Christine Palmer to serve as Derek's physiotherapist, but he resisted her treatment, claiming that he could feel neither pleasure nor pain. Christine saw the lighthouse lit on her first evening and began to question Derek about it the following morning, but he flung himself from his chair to make her forget.
Christine saw the lights again on her second night, and saw Derek (disguised in a coat) signaling to them, but as she ventured out on her balcony, the railing broke and she barely kept from falling off the roof. Christine set out to investigate the next morning, but Derek did his best to convince her that her fears were for nothing.
On the third evening, Christine found a secret passage in Sea Cliff Manor's library which led out to the sea, and found Derek's shoes there, covered with mud. When she confronted him, he rose from the chair and revealed what he had been doing. Derek caught her and attempted to throw her off a cliff, but the butler, Harold, rolled Derek's wheelchair down the cliff at him; it struck Derek off the side of the cliff, and he died on the rocks below.
Comments: Created by Jean Thomas, Linda Fite (writers), Winslow Mortimer (pencils, inks).
Profile by Prime Eternal
CLARIFICATIONS:
Derek Porter has no known connections to
was the aunt of Derek, and hired Christine Palmer to serve as his nurse against his wishes. She suspected that Derek was behind the strange lights seen at Sea Cliff Manor, but was reluctant to become involved because Derek was the only family she had left.
--Night Nurse I#4
had served as the family butler for the Porters for several years. He attempted to send Christine Palmer away when she first arrived at Sea Cliff Manor, but Edna Porter kept him from succeeding. Christine suspected that Harold was behind the strange lights at Sea Cliff Manor, not realizing it was really Derek. Harold killed Derek by striking him off a cliff with his wheelchair.
--Night Nurse I#4
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Night Nurse I#4, p20, pan4 (main image)
Night Nurse I#4, p25, pan6 (assaulting Night Nurse)
Night Nurse I#4, p4, pan3 (Edna Porter)
Night Nurse I#4, p6, pan3 (Harold)
Appearances:
Night Nurse#4 (May, 1973) - Jean Thomas, Linda Fite (writers), Winslow Mortimer (pencils, inks), Roy Thomas (editor)
Last updated: 11/06/15
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