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The Mortician

The Mortician

Porter Vito is a funerary agent who resurrects people from the dead. It it believed that he started practicing this because his own parents passed away. He uses zombie swarms as his defense.

Name:
The Mortician
Publisher:
Real name:
Porter Vito
Aliases:
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
  • Necromancy
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Origin

The Mortician is trying some reanimation techniques to raise his dead parents. When one of his zombies kills someone however, he feels remorse and gives up his plans.

Major Story Arcs

Gotham Knights: The Mortician

The origin of The Mortician

Detective Comics: Beneath the Mask

In Arkham Asylum, the Mortician is confronted with Jeremiah Arkham, who became an inmate.

Batman: The Dark Knight; Knight Terrors

The Mortician is one of several inmates in Arkham that break out while hyped up on an unknown toxin.

Vito also appears in Resurrection Man, again in the Arkham break out scene.

Issues

June 2002

July 2002

June 2010

November 2011

April 2012

September 2013

March 2014

April 2014

May 2014

June 2014

Volumes

1937

2000

2011

2013

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Enemies

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