Squid (DC Comics)

Squid
The Squid watches his pet giant squid Gertrude try to kill the Batman on the cover of Batman #357.
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Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Batman #357
Created by	Gerry Conway Don Newton
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Full name	Lawrence Loman

Squid
The alien Squid II makes his first cover appearance. From Dial H #4.
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Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Adventure Comics #490
Created by	E. Nelson Bridwell Carmine Infantino
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Abilities	Ink-Shooting

The Squid is the name of two different villains in DC Comics.

The first Squid debuted in Batman #357 and was created by Gerry Conway and Don Newton.

The second Squid debuted in Adventure Comics #490 and was created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Carmine Infantino.

Lawrence Loman (aka Clement Carp) is a crime lord and master criminal in Gotham City. He and his gang stole a satchel full of important documents that Batman eventually recovers. Batman is wounded in the process, and the Squid trails him and tries to finish the job without success.

Following the fall of Rupert Thorne and Tony Falco, he was poised to fill the vacuum left by Rupert Thorne and Tony Falco. He sets up a hideout in an old warehouse near the piers. He also was able to capture a giant squid which he named "Gertrude", which he kept in a huge aquarium in his hideout usually feeding his foes to it. In an attempt to gain control of the Gotham underworld, he and his crew succeeded in capturing Batman and feeding him to Gertude. Batman was able to barely escape from the tank with his life. Eventually the villain Killer Croc (who was once a part of the Squid's gang) kills the Squid by shooting him from a rooftop.

In Post-Crisis continuity (as seen in 52), the Squid returned and was one of the crime bosses sought out/captured by Bruno Mannheim of the Intergang. Most of the bosses refused to join Intergang and were killed for that, but the Squid's final fate was unknown.

In The New 52 (a reboot of the DC Comics universe), the Squid has a different appearance. Once again, he has a pet giant squid (who is also named Gertrude) which he uses to dispatch his foes. He was seen peddling a new drug called "Icarus" throughout the streets of Chinatown.

The second character to be called "The Squid" is an alien who arrived on Earth with Abyss to commit a string of robberies. They start in Fairfax which was home to Chris King and Vicki Grant. Chris and Vicki used their H-Dials to combat Squid and Abyss where they ended up defeating them. Squid tried to flee using one of Abyss's portals to return to his homeworld, but the Abyss was disoriented at the time, and sent the Squid to someplace else, the precise details unknown even to Abyss himself.