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Professor Bacterio
Eyes: Black
Hair: None
Race: Human
Occupation: Mad scientist
Legal status: Spanish citizen
Group affiliation: T.I.A. (Técnicos Investigación Aeroterráquea)
Story: Professor Bacterio is the mad scientist at T.I.A. He is always coming up with brilliant inventions for Mortadelo and Filemón, which are supposed to help them on their missions. They usually have some unforeseen effect, leading to disaster.
Continuity: Mortadelo y Filemón
Company: Editorial Bruguera
First app.: Comics: El Sulfato Atómico (1969)
Movies: La Gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (2003)
Creator(s): Francisco IbáñezCountry of origin: Spain
Background notes: No secret agent can do his job properly without gadgets, James Bond has Q, and Mortadelo and Filemón has Professor Bacterio. However where Q is a reasonable man who's gadgets work, Bacterio is a mad scientist who's gadgets rarely works as intented.
When Mortadelo y Filemón was transferred to Movies, the professor was played by Janfri Topera.