| Then there is also this guy, Terry 13.
https:www.toonopedia.com/doc13.htm
DR. THIRTEEN, THE GHOST BREAKER
Medium: Comic Books
Published by: DC Comics
First Appeared: 1951
Creators: unknown writer and Leonard Starr, artist .
[ One of his stories was reprinted in Showcase #80 (January, 1969), which mainly served to re-introduce The Phantom Stranger, another '50s guy who dealt with spooks. When the Stranger got his own comic, Dr. Thirteen was revived in his back pages. They met on several occasions, in which Dr. Thirteen attempted to provide rational explanations for The Phantom Stranger himself.
Being thus incorporated into the DC Universe is what did Dr. Thirteen in, as far as being a credible hero goes. In the DC Universe, which contains Sargon the sorcerer, Dr. Occult, Etrigan the Demon and dozens if not hundreds more, not everything can be explained entirely in terms of the natural world. Anyone who refuses to turn loose of the idea that that they can tends to come off as not entirely sane and rational himself. But this is how Dr. Thirteen continued to be characterized, not just in his encounters with the Stranger, but even when, in the early 1980s, he briefly had a series in Ghosts (one of those supernatural/horror titles that don't usually have ongoing characters), and came face-to-face with The Spectre himself. In fact, "too rational to be quite sane" was how he was portrayed in a version published by DC's Vertigo imprint (Animal Man, Swamp Thing), which, like other Vertigo comics, was aimed at adults.
In 2005, DC published a mini-series about Zatanna, where the story called for an ongoing character to be snuffed in the first issue. Eliciting little fan interest these days, Dr. Thirteen, who didn't work very well in his surroundings anyway, was the winning candidate. Of course, death isn't always a permanent condition in comic books, but in his case the possibility of return raises an interesting question — if he comes back, will he disbelieve in himself? ]
https:leagueofcomicgeeks.com/character/18501/doctor-13#character-summary-copy
[Doctor 13 is a parapsychologist who investigates supernatural activity. In his original adventures he is a skeptic scientist, who exposes false superstition. He is later portrayed as an irrational skeptic, who denies that magic exists and tries to find scientific explanations instead. His wife is Marie Leeds, and his two daughters are Terri Thirteen and Traci Thirteen, the latter with the Asian sorceress Meihui Lan. He has also lead his own group called Team 13.]
Wonder what might happen if these two teamed up?
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