Earthworm is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Herbert Hynde is a criminal who ran a baby-selling ring while operating as Earthworm until it attracted the attention of Huntress. Though the ring was shut down, Earthworm escaped into the sewers. [1]
During the "Underworld Unleashed" storyline, Earthworm sold his soul to Neron and gained a worm-like body that enables him to drill rapidly underground and control vermin. [2] He accompanied Blackguard of the 1,000 and Cheetah in attacking the Warriors bar before being defeated. [3]
Vincent Edge is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Vincent Edge is the father of Morgan Edge who took over Galaxy Communications when Morgan was recovering from a heart attack. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
During the "Reign of the Supermen" storyline, Vincent Edge attempts to force Superboy into signing a contract with Galaxy Communications. [9] [10] [11] [12] He is later killed by Moxie Mannheim's minion Noose. [13]
Ember is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Paul Dini and artist Stéphane Roux, she first appeared in Zatanna vol. 2 #1 (July 2010). The character is an unborn dragon gestating in the body of an unnamed human, and a servant of Brother Night.
Emperor Blackgate is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He appeared during "The New 52".
Ignatius Ogilvy is the son of a crook named Ed Ogilvy before he and his wife were killed during a negotiation. [15] Subsequently, Ignatius became a henchman of the Penguin. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] He later transforms into a monster using a chemical derived from the Man-Bat Serum, Bane's Venom, and Poison Ivy's plants before being defeated by Batman and imprisoned in Blackgate Penetentiary. [15] [23]
During the "Forever Evil" storyline, Emperor Blackgate joins the Secret Society of Super Villains before being defeated and re-imprisoned. [24] [25] [26] [27] [28]
Enforcer is the name of different characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Leroy Merkyn is a mercenary who worked for the 2000 Committee and fought Firestorm. [30]
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Mica Love is a mercenary who worked for the 2000 Committee. [30] She would also become an Enforcer when fighting Firestorm. [31]
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Joe Gardner is a clone of Guy Gardner who was created by the Draal. [32]
Eraser is the name of a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Leonard "Lenny" Fiasco was a low-grade student during his high school years and classmate of Bruce Wayne. After dropping out of school, Leonard became a masked criminal known as Eraser, who erased evidence from crime scenes for other criminals. [33] [34]
Eraser makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in The Lego Batman Movie as one of several villains recruited by the Joker to take part in his attack on Gotham City.[ citation needed ]
First appearance | Detective Comics #225 (November 1955) |
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Created by | Joseph Samachson (writer) Joe Certa (artist) |
Dr. Saul Erdel is a scientist in the DC Universe.
Dr. Saul Erdel was a brilliant scientist who created a transmitter to communicate with other worlds. When he sent a transmission to Mars, a beam of energy reached across the space-time continuum, grabbed hold of J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, and transported him to Earth. The shock of seeing the Green Martian caused Erdel to have a heart attack and die in J'onn's arms. [35]
His DC Rebirth version appeared in a flashback renamed Mark Saul Erdel. [36]
Sarah Essen | |
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Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Batman #405 (March 1987) |
Created by | Frank Miller David Mazzucchelli |
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Full name | Sarah Essen |
Team affiliations | Gotham City Police Department |
Sarah Essen, also as Sarah Essen Gordon, is a character in DC Comics.
Appearing in Batman #405, part of the Batman: Year One storyline, she is a detective partnered with then-lieutenant James Gordon. [38] A woman of German accent, her age is never revealed, but in Greg Rucka's novelization of "No Man's Land" storyline she is said to be 12 years younger than Gordon. Sarah's detective skills are shown during her attempts with Gordon to catch Batman, by guessing (correctly) that he is Bruce Wayne by virtue of his history and the money needed for Batman's arsenal. She and Gordon, who was married at the time, start a brief affair, but a corrupt Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb attempts to blackmail them; Gordon ends the affair and confesses his actions to his wife Barbara. Sarah leaves Gotham City for New York City soon afterwards. [39]
Sarah returns in Batman #458 (January 1991), where it is explained that she had married a New York cop who was killed during a drug bust. Gordon had long since divorced and the two begin a serious relationship, resulting in Gordon's proposing to her on a night when the police station is under attack by a trio of supervillains with electrical powers. The two get married in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Annual #2 (1992).
When James Gordon is demoted by Mayor Armand Krol in Batman #519, Sarah is given the job in his stead. Gordon later resigns from the Gotham City Police Department in the same issue. She takes on Gordon's collaboration with Batman and Robin, but does not like the job. Later, Sarah is fired from the GCPD by Krol, who is now "a lame duck" after recently losing in the mayoral election against Marion Grange. Essen is replaced as Commissioner by Andrew Howe, a close friend of Armand Krol. Grange later re-instates James Gordon as Commissioner and also re-hires and promotes Sarah to serve as liaison between the GCPD and the mayor's office. [40]
Sarah is murdered by the Joker in Detective Comics #741, at the end of the "No Man's Land" story arc. Her stepdaughter Barbara attends her funeral, feeling regret to call her as Sarah rather than Mom. [41]
In the Post- Infinite Crisis continuity (as seen in flashbacks in Detective Comics #875), Gordon and Essen were married much earlier, when Gordon was still a lieutenant, and she had a more active role in raising her stepdaughter.
In The New 52 -rebooted DC continuity, Sarah's marriage with James Gordon never took place, even after the DC Rebirth event, but she returned in "Infinite Frontier" relaunch.
Sarah Essen makes cameo appearances in The Dark Knight Returns .
Ron Evers | |
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Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Tales of the New Teen Titans #1 (June 1982) |
Created by | George Pérez Marv Wolfman |
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Full name | Ronald Evers |
Team affiliations | First Church of Anti-Technocracy |
Ron Evers is a character in DC Comics.
First appearing in Tales of the New Teen Titans #1, Ron Evers was the childhood friend of Victor Stone and grew up in the slums of New York City, which led him to become a criminal as an adult. He comes into conflict with Stone, who had since become Cyborg, and is presumed dead in their ensuing battle. However, he is rescued by S.T.A.R. Labs, transformed into a cyborg, and weaponized by the military. [47] Cyborg later removes Ron's cybernetic implants, after which he reforms and founds the Church of Anti-Technocracy, an anti-technology organization. [48] [49]
The Martian Manhunter is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Joseph Samachson and artist Joe Certa, the character first appeared in the story "The Manhunter from Mars" in Detective Comics #225. Martian Manhunter is one of the seven original members of the Justice League of America and one of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe.
James W. "Jim" Gordon Sr. is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, most commonly in association with the superhero Batman. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane as an ally of Batman, the character debuted in the first panel of Detective Comics #27, Batman's first appearance, making him the first Batman supporting character ever to be introduced.
Man-Bat is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Introduced in Detective Comics #400 as an enemy of the superhero Batman, the character belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery. Originally portrayed as a supervillain, later incarnations show the Man-Bat as a sympathetic villain or antihero.
Margaret Ellen Sawyer is a fictional character that appears in stories published by DC Comics, and has been a supporting character in both Superman and Batman comic books.
Samuel Emerson "Slam" Bradley is a fictional character that has appeared in various comic book series published by DC Comics. He is a private detective who exists in DC's main shared universe. The character concept was created by DC Comics founder Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and developed by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who both later became more well known as the co-creators of Superman. As one of the first ever DC characters, the character first appears in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the anthology title Detective Comics, being introduced in the first issue. He later commonly was associated with Batman and other spinoff Batman characters when revived.
Gillian B. Loeb is a fictional character in the DC Universe who serves as an enemy to Batman's ally James "Jim" Gordon in DC Comics publications.
Firefly is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by France Herron and Dick Sprang, he made his debut in Detective Comics #184. Initially portrayed as a criminal who utilized lighting effects to commit robberies, Firefly was later reimagined as a sociopathic pyromaniac with an obsessive compulsion to start fires following Crisis on Infinite Earths' reboot of the DC Universe in the 1980s. This darker depiction of the character has since endured as one of the superhero Batman's most recurring enemies and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his central rogues gallery.
"Batman: No Man's Land" is an American comic book crossover storyline that ran for almost all of 1999 through the Batman comic book titles published by DC Comics. The story architecture for "No Man's Land" and the outline of all the Batman continuity titles for 1999 were written by cartoonist Jordan B. Gorfinkel.
Rupert Thorne is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The character is a crime boss and enemy of Batman.
Caroline Keene "Carrie" Kelley is a superheroine from Frank Miller's graphic novels The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and its sequels The Dark Knight Strikes Again (2001–2002) and The Dark Knight III: The Master Race (2015–2017). She becomes the new Robin in The Dark Knight Returns when she saves Batman's life. Later in The Dark Knight Strikes Again, she adopts the identity Catgirl, and in The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, she adopts the identity Batwoman. She was the first full-time female Robin in the history of the Batman franchise, though Julie Madison had passed off as Robin for a brief time in a Bob Kane story published in Detective Comics #49 in March 1941.
"One Year Later" is a 2006 comic book storyline running through the books published by DC Comics. As the title suggests, it involves a narrative jump exactly one year into the future of the DC Universe following the events of the “Infinite Crisis” storyline, to explore major changes within the continuities of the many different comic books within the DC Comics range.
Magpie is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She was created by John Byrne, and first appeared in The Man of Steel #3.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are a duo of supervillains appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, primarily as enemies of Batman.
The Dollmaker is the name of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.