Reaper (DC Comics)
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Detective Comics #575 (June 1987) |
| Created by |
Mike W. Barr Alan Davis |
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| Alter ego | Judson Caspian |
| Abilities | Spiked leather armor Scythe-shaped weapons with hidden firearms |
| Reaper | |
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Cover to Batman: Full Circle by Alan Davis
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Batman: Full Circle |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Joe Chill, Jr. |
| Abilities | Spiked leather armor Scythe-shaped weapons with hidden firearms |
Reaper is the name of three characters in the DC Comics universe.
Created by writer Mike W. Barr, and designed by artist Alan Davis, the Judson Caspian version of Reaper first appeared in Detective Comics #575 (June 1987), the first part of the four-part Batman: Year Two storyline. After the changes in DC continuity Zero Hour established, Year Two, Joe Chill's death and The Reaper have been wiped out. Chill was back in continuity after 2005's Infinite Crisis. A character dressed as the Reaper has appeared in The New 52, a 2011 reboot of the DC Comics universe, but it has not been revealed which (if any) of the previous Reapers is in the costume.
The Pre-Crisis Reaper debuted in Batman #237 (Dec. 1971). This Reaper is Dr. Benjamin Gruener, a German Jew who was placed in a concentration camp run by Colonel Kurt Schloss. He kills Schloss at a Halloween parade and dies battling Batman when he falls off the edge of a dam. He was created by Denny O'Neil.
In Tony S. Daniel's Batman: Life After Death story arc, Dr. Gruener aka The Reaper is "Resurrected" by Hugo Strange who is working with the Black Mask to take down Batman. He is seen in an underground chamber in a glass tub, while Hugo instructs his doctors on bringing him back to life. When he regains consciousnesses, Black Mask reminds Gruener of his childhood in a concentration camp in hopes to fuel him with anger and revenge. Black Mask hands him a necklace with The Star of David on it that was given to him by his father, and then his scythe, the weapon he chose when first taking up the alias Reaper.
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