Not only is Harley Quinn the only one who has made the leap from TV to comics, here we present other Batman characters who have come to the DC Universe after debuting on the small screen.
For more than six decades, the different Batman TV series have contributed elements to the Dark Knight mythology, which carries over to the comic book panels.
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Harley Quinn might seem like the most prominent character to make the leap from the small screen to comics, but she’s not the only one to come to the DC Universe from an animated series or live action.
Discover other Batman characters that have debuted in TV series and have been incorporated at some point into the canon of comics
King Tut (Victor Buono)
The episode The Curse of Tut brought us Victor Buono as the main villain. University professor William Omaha McElroy is injured in a student riot, where after a blow to the head he suffers from amnesia and when he comes to he thinks that
The Egyptian villain has made a number of appearances since his Batman ’66 debut in the comics, most significantly in Batman Confidential #26-28, heavily marketed at the time as the comic debut of TV’s favorite villain.
Egghead (Vincent Price)
One of the most recognized actors in the 60’s, as a benchmark for horror movies, had his moment of glory in the Batman series, where he played the smartest criminal in the world, and his characteristic was to use eggs to commit crimes. his crimes
Egghead makes the leap from the small screen to the comic book pages when he makes an appearance in Harley Quinn #38 (2018), when Penguin sends Gotham’s most pathetic criminal in search of Harley.
Bookworm (Roddy McDowall)
Another of the great stars who were part of the cast of Batman villains for the television series was Roddy McDowall, who gave life to Bookworm, a criminal who, based on a great gibberish and his vast knowledge, turns Gotham upside down.
Bookworm made the leap from screen to comics and debuted in the pages of Gotham Academy #2 as Mr. Scarlet, a professor of English literature.
Batgirl (Yvonne Craig)
The premiere of the third season of Batman incorporated actress Yvonne Craig into the cast, who embodied a renewed version of Batgirl, a character who had already appeared in the 1940s in the pages of Batman and Detective Comics, being eliminated.
Needing to introduce a female counterpart to Batman, producer William Dozier requested this from DC editor Julius Schwartz, who delegated the task to Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino to redesign Batgirl, who debuted simultaneously in the comics and in the third season of the series
harley quinn
Undoubtedly, the most remembered character from the series produced by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini is Harley Quinn, who originally would only appear in the Joker’s Favor chapter, issued in November 1992.
Warner Bros executives were amazed at Harley Quinn, who gradually gained space in the series, and this helped her make the leap to the pages of comics in 1999.
Renee Montoya
Another of the contributions of the animated series of the 90s was the incorporation of Renee Montoya, a Gotham City police officer, who constantly opposed the orders of detective Harvey Bullock to catch Batman.
Montoya began to have more participation in the series, to the point of being considered to join the comics, and later became The Question.
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Source: DC Comics
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One of the anthologies that have caught locals and strangers is the one that in 2019 DC Comics compiled in honor of Gentleman Darkon the 80th anniversary of his debut on the pages of Detective Comics #27.
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