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Jane Doe (character)
Jane Doe is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in ''Arkham Asylum: Living Hell'' #1 and was created by Dan Slott and Ryan Sook. Doe has also appeared in other DC media, such as the fifth season of '' Gotham'', portrayed by Sarah Pidgeon, and '' Gotham Knights'', portrayed by Lindy Booth. Fictional character biography Jane Doe is introduced as a serial killer who observes her targets and then kills them before assuming their identity. She first appears disguised as Arkham Asylum therapist Dr. Anne Carver. When she was about to kill her latest patient Warren White, Batman showed up and exposed Jane Doe's identity while White found the real Dr. Carver's body. Guards arrived to contain the situation, but Batman told them to stay back while he spoke to Jane. Jane stated that she wanted to look into the madness of Arkham Asylum by posing as Dr. Carver, and that by compiling her own psychological profile, she has realized that her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Comics
DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, the first comic under the DC banner being published in 1937. The majority of its published stories are set in the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous List of DC Comics characters, culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash (DC Comics character), Flash; as well as famous fictional teams, including the Justice League, the Teen Titans, the Suicide Squad, and the Legion of Superheroes. The universe contains an assortment of well-known supervillains, such as Lex Luthor, the Joker (character), Joker, Darkseid, and the antihero Catwoman. The company has published non-DC Universe-related mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mask (comics)
Black Mask (Roman Sionis) is a supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Doug Moench and Tom Mandrake, the character debuted in ''Batman (comic book), Batman'' #386 (August 1985). He is commonly depicted as a brutal and ruthless crime lord in Gotham City who has a fixation with masks and derives sadistic pleasure from the act of torture. Black Mask is one of the most enduring enemies of the superhero Batman and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his List of Batman family enemies, rogues gallery. Black Mask has been substantially adapted from the comics into various forms of media, such as the 2020 DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film ''Birds of Prey (2020 film), Birds of Prey'', portrayed by Ewan McGregor, and the Batwoman (season 2), second season of the Arrowverse series ''Batwoman (TV series), Batwoman'', portrayed by Peter Outerbridge. Additionally, the TV series ''Gotham (TV series), Gotham'' introduced the character's father Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ComicBook
''ComicBook.com'' is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of comic books, television, films, video games, and anime. The site came online in 1996 serving as a holding page for sales links and press releases related to comic books under various domain names, before becoming ''ComicBook.com'' in 2004. In 2007, Joe Blackmon founded the website as a comic book news site. The site was relaunched in 2014 following Shannon Terry becoming CEO. ''ComicBook.com'' was acquired by CBS Interactive (which later became part of Paramount Global) in 2018 before Paramount Global sold it to Savage Ventures in 2024, and Ben Kendrick was hired as the editorial director. Background ''ComicBook.com'' began as a holding page containing sales links and press releases related to comic books and had various names used by various companies: in 1996, American Entertainment used it for their websites, ''Smash'', ''Another Universe'', and ''Mania Magazine''. The site was acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Bullock (Gotham)
The ''Gotham'' franchise is a media franchise and Shared universe, shared fictional universe that is the setting of television series, novels, and comic book series developed by Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, produced by DC Entertainment and based on characters that appear in DC Comics publications. The franchise began with the American Crime fiction, crime television series ''Gotham (TV series), Gotham'', based on characters (primarily Jim Gordon (character), James "Jim" Gordon and Batman, Bruce Wayne / Batman) appearing in DC's Batman Batman franchise media, franchise. ''Gotham'', starring Ben McKenzie as a young Gordon, premiered in the United States on September 22, 2014 on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox television network and concluded on April 25, 2019 after List of Gotham episodes, five seasons. Heller and Cannon next developed ''Pennyworth (TV series), Pennyworth'', a Spin-off (media), spin-off prequel series to ''Gotham'' starring Jack Bannon (English actor), Jack Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Strange
Hugo Strange is a supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. The character is one of Batman's first recurring villains, and was also one of the first to discover his secret identity. The character first appeared in ''Detective Comics'' #36 (February 1940). A notorious enemy of Batman, the character has appeared in various forms of non-comics media, including animation, video games, and the live-action television series '' Gotham'', where he is portrayed by BD Wong. Fictional character biography Pre-''Crisis'' Golden Age Professor Hugo Strange first appears in ''Detective Comics'' #36 (February 1940) as a scientist and criminal mastermind who uses a stolen "concentrated lightning" machine to generate a dense fog every night so his gang can rob banks unseen, though he knows that Batman poses a threat to him. Batman, who already knows of Strange's experiments, begins investigating him after one of his henchmen comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
