DEBORAH WALLACE	BIOGRAPHY
Created by Gardner Fox and Howard Purcell

PERSONAL DATA

Identity: Public
Occupation: Debutante, later a WAF nurse
Citizenship: American
Marital Status: Presumed single through 1944
Known Relatives: Deborah Wallace (ancestor, deceased)
Gender: Female
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown (often dyed blonde)
First Appearance: Sensation Comics #1 (January 1942)
Creators: Gardner Fox and Howard Purcell

HISTORY

In England, in the year 1700, the young Earl of Strethmere, Keith Everet, confronted highwaymen (a term for bandits) and as they fought, Everet was killed. Promising to remain on this plane of existence until reunited with his love, Deborah, he was confined to the halls of his castle as a spirit for the next 241 years. During that time, Everet communed with the ghosts and spirits of his ancestors, learning how to manipulate his ectoplasm that comprised his spirit body.

Fearing that he would spend all eternity in the castle, he was confronted with two Americans that took up residence in the castle. One was Deborah, a direct descendant and an exact double for his long-dead love, the other was Charles Collins, a pilot and her boyfriend. The two had come to England during the spring of 1941, to examine the castle that she had inherited. A small band of Nazi spies and saboteurs also wanted the castle to use as their base. Confronting the two Americans, the spies killed Collins and kidnapped Deborah. The ghostly Everett re-animated the body of Charles Collins and using his ghostly abilities, captured the spies. Using the ectoplasm, he converted Collins appearance to his own, thereby hiding his identity. Wanting to be free of the castle, and to win Deborah's hand, Keith Everet took up Charles Collins' identity and began to covertly fight crime back in the United States as The Grim Ghost.

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Deborah Wallace in chronological order click here