The Unofficial Biography of...

Alter Ego: Keith Everet / Charles Collins
Occupation: Earl of Strethmere / pilot, later FBI agent
Marital Status: single through 1948
Known Relatives: unnamed ancestors / none
Group Affiliation: none
Base of Operations: Gotham City
Current Status: unknown
As Charles Collins:
Height: 5'11" Weight: 189 lbs.
Eye Color: blue Hair Color: brown
First Appearance: Sensation Comics# 1, January, 1942.

The Grim Ghost was Created by Gardner Fox and Howard Bender.

........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 until reunited with his love, Deborah, he was confined to the halls of his castle 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 decendant 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 sabateurs 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.
........Slowly learning of the new century and of all its trappings, Everet/Collins later joined the US Army Air Corps, and after the War, joined the FBI. It is not known what happened to the pair after 1949.

........As a spectre, The Grim Ghost had many abilities. He could animate and possess the dead body of Charles Collins, and possibly others. Manipulating his ectoplasmic essence, he could change his appearance, fly, go transpanrent or erethral and pass through solid objects. Everet was a master swordsman and a very good shot with a cap and ball pistol. As Collins, he relearned his piloting skills and became an above average pilot.