The short criminal career of Two-Face, AKA Harvey... Apollo?
Hey, remember when I started to do my series on the various Impostor Two-Faces over the years, and then never did a second entry? Yeah, neither did I until a couple days ago! Whoops!
So today, I offer you a link to the story of the SECOND impostor Two-Face: Harvey Apollo, ham actor!
Actually, I don't know if he so much counts as an impostor since this Two-Face is from a different continuity. Perhaps I should differentiate between impostors (in-canon people pretending to be Two-Face) and alternate versions (Elseworlds, etc).
In this story, featured in the Sunday comic strip of Batman and Robin, they decided to take a different tack with Harvey. Instead of a crusading D.A., he's a pompous actor who longs for the spotlight. It's an oddball choice, but fascinating to consider how they came up with that idea.
After all, an actor has better (or at least, more obvious) reason to be self-conscious and vain than a District Attorney. And in original Harvey Kent story climaxed with a grand cinematic heist, which has greater meaning for a villain obsessed with the stage. It gives the whole finale a grander sense of theatricality. I can't help but think the strip's author(s?) took either of those elements as the core inspiration for this new version.
Of course, if you've clicked the link and read the story, you know that it's a short-lived crime career, which may be another reason they went with a new, less tragically sympathetic Two-Face. Yet I can't help but think that his death is rather undeserved. I mean, really, Batman? The state would have hanged Harvey for robbery?
In either case, I can't help but have a soft spot for Harvey Apollo, as I'm something of a ham actor myself IRL.
TEH DRAMA!!!1!
So today, I offer you a link to the story of the SECOND impostor Two-Face: Harvey Apollo, ham actor!
Actually, I don't know if he so much counts as an impostor since this Two-Face is from a different continuity. Perhaps I should differentiate between impostors (in-canon people pretending to be Two-Face) and alternate versions (Elseworlds, etc).
In this story, featured in the Sunday comic strip of Batman and Robin, they decided to take a different tack with Harvey. Instead of a crusading D.A., he's a pompous actor who longs for the spotlight. It's an oddball choice, but fascinating to consider how they came up with that idea.
After all, an actor has better (or at least, more obvious) reason to be self-conscious and vain than a District Attorney. And in original Harvey Kent story climaxed with a grand cinematic heist, which has greater meaning for a villain obsessed with the stage. It gives the whole finale a grander sense of theatricality. I can't help but think the strip's author(s?) took either of those elements as the core inspiration for this new version.
Of course, if you've clicked the link and read the story, you know that it's a short-lived crime career, which may be another reason they went with a new, less tragically sympathetic Two-Face. Yet I can't help but think that his death is rather undeserved. I mean, really, Batman? The state would have hanged Harvey for robbery?
In either case, I can't help but have a soft spot for Harvey Apollo, as I'm something of a ham actor myself IRL.
TEH DRAMA!!!1!