(Morbius the Living Vampire#2 (fb) - BTS) - Butler was divorced from his wife.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#2 (fb) - BTS) - At some point Butler gained connections to the CIA.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#2) - Detective Butler and his partner were called to the murder scene of Dr. Langford and agents of Dr. Paine. He wasn't thrilled about the vampire killings and after looking at the photographs for awhile in his office reported the killings to the CIA, who called Stroud.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#3 (fb)) - Butler and his partner were called to the finding place of Dick Packer's corpse, which Morbius threw from the Daily Bugle building in front of Peter Parker. They recognized Parker's name as the photographer of many Spider-Man pictures. Peter left before they asked too many questions.
Butler took the vampire killing files from his office and handed it over to Stroud at a bar.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#10/2 (fb) - BTS) - Stroud had Butler paid by the CIA through one of his inside men.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#4) - Butler received a call from Stroud again to gain more info, but Butler didn't want to endanger his job again. His partner told him about a new victim shortly after. This victim was torn to pieces and partially eaten (by Basilisk). Butler and his partner arrived at the crime scene shortly after.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#6 - BTS) - Stroud called Butler, who told him about a benefactor paying for Martine Bancroft's funeral. He was asked to fax the info he had to Stroud and to destroy it afterward.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#8) - Butler and his partner accompanied a wounded murderer of three kids to St. Jude's Hospital. Butler didn't want to let him out of sight. Butler's partner saw Vic Slaughter in a bed nearby and thought he looked like another vampire killer victim. Butler heard Slaughter whisper Morbius and wondered where he had heard this name before. The killer Butler came with to the hospital died shortly after under the hands of Dr. Morgan Michaels and another doctor. Butler wanted to know if he had regained consciousness to tell who he was working for, but he didn't, meaning Butler and his partner wouldn't learn who he was working for. Butler then asked the doctors if the name Morbius meant anything to them and the second doctor (not Michaels, duh) told him that Morbius was once a famous scientist. The info helped Butler to remember Dr. Michael Morbius. Dr. Michaels walked away telling Butler that Morbius was supposedly dead.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#10/2) - Butler was angry on the phone because paperwork kept him off the street when CIA Agents Barrett and China visited his office to ask him about his connection to Simon Stroud. When Butler pretended to not even know Stroud, Barrett hit his head on a desk and told him Stroud's history with the CIA. They asked him to aid them in catching Stroud and Slaughter. Butler gave in when they threatened him.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#11/2) - Butler was with Barrett and China in his office when Stroud called him to inform Butler about Morbius' secret identity as Dr. Morgan Michaels at St. Jude's Hospital. Stroud set up a meeting with Butler at the office and Butler was late. They stormed Dr. Michaels' office where Barrett and China were already waiting for them with Michaels. Stroud took Butler hostage and shot Michaels. Outside the police had surrounded the building. Stroud shot three officers before Morbius came down from the sky to save Butler from Stroud. When Stroud was arrested Butler wondered if he wasn't insane and actually the only guy capable of taking down Morbius.
Comments: Created by Doug Moench (writer), George Tuska (pencils) & Vince Colletta (inks).
Unlike others Butler didn't know that Dr. Morgan Michaels was actually Michael Morbius or at least he didn't believe in it after learning it from Stroud because China and Barrett had convinced him that Stroud was just crazy.
Profile by Markus Raymond.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Detective Butler has no known connection to:
- Butler, Ultraverse, father of Flood @ Flood Relief
- Butler, robot created by Gabriel MacGregor @ Marvel Double Shot#4
- Butler, resurrected Civil War general @ Epic Anthology#1/3
- Harry Butler, US army colonel @ Ms. Marvel I#20
- Rena Butler, had portion of Azrael in her collarbone @ Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#19
- Travis Butler, Stilt-Man Gang member @ Punisher War Journal II#26
- any other character with a similar name
unidentified partner
(Morbius the Living Vampire#2) - He accompanied Detective Butler to the murder scene of Dr. Langford. He thought they had a pattern killer because there were three more victims in the burning building.
Back at the police station he arrested in a prostitute.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#3) - Butler and his partner were at the finding place of Dick Packer's corpse and ran into photographer Peter Parker. The partner knew Parker's work and asked him how he could always be so lucky. Parker rather left than to answer any further questions. Butler's partner told him not to leave town.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#4) - Butler's partner told him that they had another dead body. This time the victim was torn limb from limb and partially eaten. Shortly after they arrived at the crime scene. They were watched by the murderer himself, Wayne Gifford.
(Morbius the Living Vampire#8) - He and Butler brought the wounded murderer of three kids to St. Jude's Hospital. Butler's partner saw Vic Slaughter in a bed nearby and thought he looked like another vampire killer victim. Butler's partner stood by as Butler tried to figure out who Morbius, the man Slaughter was whispering about, was. The murderer died under the hands of Dr. Morgan Michaels and another doctor. Butler's partner told the doctors that they needed info from the murderer on his employees, who were flooding the streets with a drug called Jazz. Butler and his partner left after talking to the doctors about Morbius.
--Morbius the Living Vampire#2 (2-4, 8
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Appearances:
Morbius the Living Vampire#2-3 (October-November, 1992) - Len Kaminski (writer), Ron Wagner (pencils), Mike Witherby (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Morbius the Living Vampire#4 (December, 1992) - Len Kaminski (writer), Ron Garney (pencils), Mike Witherby (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Morbius the Living Vampire#6 (February, 1993) - Len Kaminski (writer), Ron Wagner (pencils), Mike Witherby (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Morbius the Living Vampire#8 (April, 1993) - Len Kaminski (writer), Ron Wagner (pencils), Mike Witherby (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Morbius the Living Vampire#10-11 (June-July, 1993) - Gregory Wright (writer), Isaac Cordova (pencils), Mike Witherby (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
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