History:(Vault of Spiders I#1 /2 (fb) - BTS) - Doc Morbius learned of the recipe for a "miracle elixir" from an Apache shaman.
DOC MORBIUS
Earth-31913
Real Name: (first name unrevealed) Morbius
Identity/Class: Alternate reality
(Earth-31913) human mutate
Occupation: "Miracle elixir" salesman
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: The
Web-Slinger (Patrick O'Hara)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: The outskirts of the town Dead Tree, USA
First Appearance: Vault of Spiders I#1 (December, 2018)
Powers/Abilities: Doc Morbius was essentially
a living vampire, forced to drink blood to survive. As part of his
vampiric abilities, Doc Morbius was capable of placing others into a
hypnotic trance and he had sharp fangs and claws.
Doc Morbius was a skilled
scientist, having created an elixir capable of mutating others. He was
capable of transforming others into vampiric beings like himself but it
was unclear whether this transformation was the result of his chemical
elixir or his vampiric bite.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'10")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 170 lbs.)
Eyes: Red
Hair: Dark brown
History:
(Vault of Spiders I#1 /2 (fb) - BTS) - Doc Morbius learned of the
recipe for a "miracle elixir" from an Apache shaman.
(Vault of Spiders I#1 /2
(fb)) - Doc Morbius soon used the recipe to create a traveling medicine
show business to sell the elixir, employing trick shooter Patrick
O'Hara to spin yarns and entice customers into visiting the show. When
O'Hara expressed suspicions that the elixir was nothing more than snake
oil, Doc Morbius insisted the recipe was legitimate and that it could
help people change along with the changing times. Eventually, some of
Doc Morbius' elixir fell onto a spider that bit O'Hara, granting him
spider-like abilities that he used as the heroic outlaw Web-Slinger.
(Vault of Spiders I#1 / 2 (fb) - BTS) - Over time,
Doc Morbius began drinking his own elixir and it eventually transformed
him into a blood-sucking monster.
(Vault of Spiders I#1 /2) - When a man ran into a
saloon in the town of Dead Tree exclaiming how a wagon outside of town
was attacked and its people butchered, Patrick O'Hara, who happened to
be in the saloon, decided to investigate as the Web-Slinger, soon
tracking down the attacker as a mutated Doc Morbius. Busting in on Doc
Morbius and a trio of captured children, the Web-Slinger was told that
Morbius' business was none of the hero's concern but when the
Web-Slinger refused to leave without the children, Doc Morbius
unleashed a group of mutates against the gunslinger. The Web-Slinger
easily pinned the vampiric mutates with his web guns but Doc Morbius
tackled the Web-Slinger, exclaiming that the hero had no idea the agony
he was in. Web-Slinger knocked Doc Morbius away and both combatants got
back to their feet, at which point Doc Morbius tried to explain how he
needed the children's vitality to cure himself or risk becoming
something worse than he already was. A knocked over lantern soon set
Doc Morbius' chemicals ablaze and Doc Morbius realized the chemicals
would explode. Not wishing to be remembered as a monster, Doc Morbius
ordered the Web-Slinger to get the children and himself out of his lab
before it exploded. The Web-Slinger did as instructed and got the
children to safety mere moments before the lab exploded, apparently
killing Doc Morbius in the process.
Comments: Created by Cullen Bunn and Javier
Pulido.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-31913's Doc Morbius should be
distinguished from:
Appearances:
Vault of Spiders I#1 (December, 2018) - "The Web-Slinger" story -
Cullen Bunn (writer), Javier Pulido (pencils, inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
First posted: 10/29/2024
Last updated: 10/29/2024
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