In the early 1940s, in Brazil, Doctor Voodoo was a young American physician named Hal Carey.
History
Starting in 1940, deep in the Brazilian jungle, a young American physician named Hal Carey carried on his late father's medical practice, among a head-hunting tribe of White Indians called the Blancas. Hal had grown up in the Brazilian jungles, and studied his father's medical texts and techniques.
Carey and his work were opposed by the tribe's traditional medicine charlatan Okoro. Carey was forced to flee deep into the rain forest, where he met and teamed up with a beautiful non-Blanca White girl, and her jaguar, Maxinya and Jappa respectively. These two could converse between themselves in a private language.
Okoro tried repeatedly to kill Carey, or to discredit his science, and failed. Finally, frustrated, Okoro called for trial by combat: the two would fight with big blades tied to their shoulders, elbows, and knees. Carey won, causing Okoro to beg for mercy. The enthusiastic white Indians proclaimed Hal their new king, or tried to, but he flatly declined the job. Still, his tribal nickname "Doctor Voodoo" did stick.
Later Dr. Carey set up a clinic, and Maxinya hired herself on as a nurse. She and Jappa the Jaguar begin teaching Hal how to speak Jaguar, and other animal tongues.[1]
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