An Exhibition and the Character's First Novel Revive Dr. Mortis: the Icon of Chilean Terror Turns 80

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It was on a radio station in Punta Arenas, on a lost and cold night in 1945 when the character of Dr. Mortis first appeared. He had been created by writer and actor Juan Marino Cabello and began as a radio-theatre character. Originally, El Sinistero Doctor Mortis was going to last only 1 month, but it was such his popularity that he ended up expanding for decades through the waves of, first, Radio Army, and then Radio Portales de Santiago, where…