While the three roommates initially bicker amongst themselves, they soon bond over their shared loneliness, and become best friends. Originally, none of the three nurses then used "night nurse" as a label, though the "Next Issue" box in
Night Nurse #1 stated, "More true-to-life adventures of Linda Carter, Night Nurse!".
Linda Carter Linda Carter is the daughter of a doctor in
Allentown, New York. After moving to New York City and moving in with roommates Christine Palmer and Georgia Jenkins, she meets and falls in love with Marshall Michaels, a wealthy businessman. When he forces her to choose between marrying him or staying at Metro General as a nurse, she chooses her career. In the following two issues of the series, Linda demonstrates that her skills are not limited to nursing practice, as she performs detective work to help expose an incompetent surgeon and prevents a hitman from murdering a patient. By the time the series was canceled, she had started a budding romance with Dr. Jack Tryon, a young resident doctor. Palmer is the protagonist of
Night Nurse #4, with Carter making a one-panel cameo and Jenkins not appearing at all. Carter reappears in
Daredevil (vol. 2) #58 (May 2004), takes care of the seriously injured hero following his defeat by the
Yakuza. Having been rescued by a superhero and wanting to pay the superhuman community back by ministering to heroes' health, often
pro bono, she comes to provide off-the-record medical care for superheroes. Carter teams with
Doctor Strange in the five-issue
miniseries Doctor Strange: The Oath (December 2006-April 2007). By the end, Carter and Strange enter into a relationship, which later ends.
Georgia Jenkins Georgia Jenkins is an
African-American nurse who comes from an
inner city neighborhood, blocks away from Metro General Hospital. On her days off from work, she provides free medical care to the people on her old block. She discovers that her older brother Ben was conned into nearly blowing up the hospital generator. Even though Ben has a change of heart and is shot while trying to protect the nurses, Georgia finds out in issue #3 that Ben has been sentenced to 10-to-20 years in prison. She angrily compares the harshness of his sentence to the fact that powerful mob criminals walk around freely.
Christine Palmer Christine Palmer leaves her home in "an exclusive Midwestern suburb" against her father's wishes, intending to "make a new life without her father's money". In issue #2, her father comes to New York to try to convince her to return to her life as a debutante, threatening that "if you don't come home by Thanksgiving, then don't come home at all!". Though she considers his offer, she elects to stay in New York and becomes a surgical nurse for Dr. William Sutton. When Sutton's career ends in disaster, she leaves New York City and her friends behind, and travels the country, finding a job as a private nurse for a paraplegic at a spooky mansion. However, this particular position is short-lived and Palmer ends up returning to Metropolitan General Hospital. ==In other media==