The MAN himself
Batman 357
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Batman 357 Modern
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Grade:
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9.0
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0168638029
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Owner:
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pgbeckstrom
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
This issue was a must have for me because it had the first appearance of Jason Todd and Killer Croc! I have it raw in NM condition but I got such a good deal on this slabbed one that I could not pass it up.
Waylon Jones was born with a condition that gave him a thick scaly hide and razor-sharp claws and teeth. As a child he was relentlessly bullied because of his monstrous appearance. When he was only eight years old he snapped and almost killed one of his schoolyard tormentors. For that little incident he spent the next eight years of his life in reform school. He didn't like it much. Over this time his contempt for humanity grew; and so did his body, mutating to grotesque proportions and becoming increasingly reptilian in appearance. The now sociopathic Waylon Jones celebrated his eighteenth birthday by becoming a cold-blooded murderer.
He served twenty years for that crime and emerged from jail to join a traveling carnival. He quickly became the main attraction as the alligator-wrestler "Killer Croc". After a while Croc's ambitions and travels led him to Gotham, where he began to forge a criminal empire. His attempts to "set up shop" were repeatedly thwarted by Batman. While Croc's physical size and power increased, his intellectual abilities diminished. This left him a virtual slave to primal desires and homicidal psychosis. He took refuge in Gotham's sewers. Synopsis courtesy of comicvine.com!
I really like Killer Croc. He is your quintessential super-strong monster character! Jason Todd I enjoy better as the Red Hood!
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