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Dr. Dexter was a general practitioner/[2]doctor in Providence, Rhode Island.
After Robert Blake was exposed to the Shining Trapezohedron at the church of Federal Hill and was haunted by the Haunter of the Dark, he consulted Dr. Dexter and also him all about his ordeal. Dexter gave Blake sleeping pills but was unable to help him with the rest. When the Haunter finally left the church and slayed Blake, Dexter came home to find his dead body.[1]
After Blake's death, his friend Howard Phillips came to Dexter who admitted he believed the jewel was tied to Blake's death. Dexter broke into the church, stole the chest and jewel and threw it in the deepest channel of Narragansett Bay, strengthening the demon who escaped the bay and came to inhabit his body. Phillips kept on on his research, but was found dead three days later, presumably killed by the Haunter.
Possessed by Nyarlathotep Dr. Dexter, became an important government scientist, working on weapons that could destroy all of humanity.
Six years after Blake first entered the church, Blake's and Phillips' friend Edmund Fiske from Milwaukee (in the Service, then sick for a long while during those events) hired private detective Jonas Gores to locate Dexter. Gores dropped the case, refused to give Dexter's location and told Fiske to stop his search as well as Dexter was now an important government scientist, but Fiske knocked him out and took the address from his notes, as well as his gun. That night, two panthers broke loose from the circus. Fiske confronted Dexter/Nyarlathotep, but the demon used his death touch on him, before going to the garden to met with the docile panthers who recognized him despite his human form.[2]Notes
- Dr. Dexter was created by H.P. Lovecraft in his story "The Haunter in the Dark" (December, 1936), adapted in Journey Into Mystery (Vol. 2) #4 (April, 1973).
- In "The Shadow from the Steeple" (September, 1950), Robert Bloch named him "Ambrose Dexter". In the adaptation of that story in Journey Into Mystery (Vol. 2) #3 (February, 1973), Dexter's first name was never given.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Journey Into Mystery (Vol. 2) #4 ; The Haunter of the Dark
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Journey Into Mystery (Vol. 2) #5 ; The Shadow from the Steeple