C-List Bat Rogues Appreciation Thread. 2023

[signalman112]

I rather read a story in which the Calendar Man or Signalman or Dr. Double X are the main villain then other Joker ***YAWN*** story.
Bring of the Praise for the C-List Rogues Gallery members.

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[signalman112]

From B:TB&TB: Killer Moth, King Cobra, Eraser, Signalman, and Calendar Man.

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[JBatmanFan05]

While I like more comic-associated C-listers like Killer Moth, Spook, Calendar Man, etc....I think the Batman 60s show really created two of my topmost faves in Egghead and The Bookworm.

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Egghead did show up (unnamed in the background) in SOTB #3 in 1992.

[SixSpeedSamurai]

One thing King did in his Bat run that I liked, Kite-Man, Hell Yeah!

[K7P5V]

Definitely, my choice would be...

Lord Death Man

[Multiverse]

For me, I always believed Mortimer Drake/ the Cavalier deserves more recognition.

[signalman112]

Thomas Blake the Cat-Man by Don Newton.

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[marhawkman]

Thomas Blake the Cat-Man by Don Newton.

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He had an.... interesting run as a pseudo-hero.

[signalman112]

For me, I always believed Mortimer Drake/ the Cavalier deserves more recognition.

Chris Samnee art.

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[Riv86672]

Egghead

^^^Egghead was great, I loved him as a kid!
My absolute favorite original villain from the TV show was King Tut, though. SO much ham in his performance!

Definitely, my choice would be...

Lord Death Man

^^^I came in to mention him!

For me, I always believed Mortimer Drake/ the Cavalier deserves more recognition.

^^^And him!

I’ll add Crazy Quilt…


…and Maxie Zeus to the list.


In Crazy Quilt’s case well, I’ve always loved colorful villains. I mean if you’re gonna be a bad guy you may as well go all out!

And Maxie Zeus (like King Tut) is completely delusional. Thing is, a lot of villains are, they just don’t own it. Maxie sure as hell does!

[godisawesome]

For me, I always believed Mortimer Drake/ the Cavalier deserves more recognition.

I think he sort of weirdly finds himself in the shadow of the Hudson Pyle version whenever writers think about using the Cavalier again; Pyle had one great modern story in Blades that made him a more serious, tragic, and anti-heroic character than Drake, and it was pitched so perfectly that Drake mostly seeming to just have the gimmick as a gimmick seems to kill most interest from writers - save for the person who had the idea of him becoming Leslie Thompkins’s bodyguard, which I liked.

Here’s my pitch for how to give *a* Cavalier a good story - some story set “in the past” reveals that the Cavalier has a deeply tragic personal grudge against Tiger Shark, and Cavalier challenges them to some kind of criminal contest to set him up for a more lethal revenge strike, and they somehow drag in both Zorro-fan Batman and Scarlet Pimpernel-fan Catwoman for some swashbuckling hijinks for everyone that plays into dramatic recreation of a classic adventure story.

[signalman112]

Irv Novick art from BATMAN #326.

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[Captain Craig]

My absolute favorite original villain from the TV show was King Tut, though. SO much ham in his performance!

I recall being excited that King Tut was finally going to get his comic debut in Batman Confidential #26.
Less excited about him after, he still needs some work but I like the concept. I guess they were trying to play him as different from Maxie Zeus as they could. They shouldn't.
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[signalman112]

I hear The Monarch of Menace returns in one those Lazarus Planet titles.

Here is Jim Aparo's uncolored cover to BATMAN #336.

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[Forlorn]

White Rabbit. She didn’t get much of a chance, but I think she’s a character with potential. Maybe not a full Bat-villain, but as a goon for other villains, or as a character for other Bat Family members? A lot to do there. I also think that with both Harley and Ivy being “redeemed” nowadays, we need more bad girls in Gotham.