List of Batman Family enemies
Classic rogues gallery
Listed below are the Batman Family's most enduring and iconic adversaries.

List of Batman Family enemies

Section Title: Classic rogues gallery
Table Section Text: Listed below are the Batman Family's most enduring and iconic adversaries.

Villain	Creator(s)	First appearance	Fictional biography

Bane	Chuck Dixon Doug Moench Graham Nolan	Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993)	The international masked criminal known as Bane has immense strength that comes from a super-steroid called Venom. Bane's raw power coupled with his genius level intellect makes him a considerable threat to Batman, having once succeeded in breaking Batman's back.

Black Mask	Doug Moench Tom Mandrake	Batman #386 (August 1985)	Roman Sionis is a corrupt businessman and crime lord who has a fixation with masks. Sionis wears a black mask resembling a human skull that gives him limited mind control abilities over the weak-minded.

Alan Grant Norm Breyfogle	Shadow of the Bat #1 (June 1992)	Jeremiah Arkham became the new Black Mask following the death of Roman Sionis. Arkham, the director of Arkham Asylum, began to develop split personality disorder leading to him taking on the Black Mask identity.

Catwoman	Bob Kane Bill Finger	Batman #1 (April 1940)	Selina Kyle is an accomplished jewel thief. Although traditionally considered a villain, she is often portrayed as an antihero.

Clayface	Bob Kane	Detective Comics #40 (June 1940)	Actor Basil Karlo went mad when he learned that there would be a remake of one of his films with another actor in the lead role.

Bill Finger Sheldon Moldoff	Detective Comics #298 (December 1961)	Treasure-hunter Matt Hagen is transformed into the monstrous Clayface II by a pool of radioactive protoplasm. He now possesses super-strength and can change his claylike body into any form.

Len Wein Marshall Rogers	Detective Comics #478 (July 1978)	Preston Payne suffered from hyperpituitarism, so he worked at S.T.A.R. Labs to search for a cure.

Len Wein Marshall Rogers	Outsiders #21 (July 1987)	Lady Clay (Sondra Fuller) has superpowers similar to that of the second Clayface, Matt Hagen. She meets and falls in love with the third Clayface, Preston Payne, and gives birth to Cassius "Clay" Payne.

Doug Moench Kelley Jones	Batman #550 (January 1998)	Cassius "Clay" Payne, otherwise known as Claything, is the son of Preston Payne and Lady Clay who inherited the abilities of his parents.

Dr. Peter Malley, also known as the second Claything, was a DEO scientist who was transformed when he merged with a sample of Cassius Payne.

Ed Brubaker Darwyn Cooke	Catwoman (vol. 3) #1 (January 2002)	Todd Russell is a serial killer with the ability to transform into virtually any shape and size who targets prostitutes.

A.J. Lieberman	Batman: Gotham Knights #60 (February 2005)	Johnny Williams is a former firefighter who gained a clay appearance and the ability to shape shift following an explosion at a chemical plant.

Grant Morrison Chris Burnham	Batman Incorporated #6 (June 2011)	The Clayface of Japan is a samurai with abilities similar to previous Clayfaces.

Deadshot	Bob Kane David Vern Reed Lew Schwartz	Batman #59 (June 1950)	Floyd Lawton is an excellent sniper assassin who, when wielding a gun or projectile, never misses a shot. He is often considered to be the second greatest assassin in the DC Universe, the first being Deathstroke.

Firefly	France Herron Dick Sprang	Detective Comics #184 (June 1952)	Garfield Lynns is an orphan who became a pyromaniac, having developed a fireproof suit with a flamethrower to further pursue his "hobby".

Bill Finger Sheldon Moldoff	Batman #126 (September 1959)	Ted Carson was a man of wealth before he gambled away his fortune. Desperate, Carson turned to crime, becoming the second Firefly.

Harley Quinn	Paul Dini Bruce Timm	The Batman Adventures #12 (September 1993)	Dr. Harleen Quinzel was the Joker's psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum until she fell in love with him and subsequently reinvented herself as his madcap sidekick, Harley Quinn.

Hugo Strange	Bob Kane Bill Finger	Detective Comics #36 (February 1940)	Professor Hugo Strange is an insane psychologist who uses his mastery of chemistry to create a serum that turns his victims into mindless brutes who obey his every command.

Hush	Jeph Loeb Jim Lee	Batman #609 (January 2003)	Dr. Thomas Elliot is a brilliant surgeon who targets both Bruce Wayne, his childhood friend, and Batman.

Joker	Bob Kane Bill Finger Jerry Robinson	Batman #1 (April 1940)	The Joker is a homicidal maniac with a clown-like appearance, bent on creating havoc in Gotham City and fighting a never-ending battle against Batman.

Killer Croc	Gerry Conway Don Newton Gene Colan	Batman #357 (March 1983)	Waylon Jones has a medical condition that warped his body into a massive crocodile-like form. As Croc descended into madness, he sharpened his teeth to razor points and began murdering innocent victims.

Killer Moth	Bill Finger Dick Sprang Lew Schwartz	Batman #63 (February 1951)	Drury Walker, alias Cameron Van Cleer, is a moth-themed criminal, known for being the first villain to have been defeated by Batgirl.

Mad Hatter	Bob Kane Bill Finger	Batman #49 (October 1948)	Jervis Tetch is inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to commit crimes. He uses his mind-control technology to bend people to his will, and is never seen without a large and fantastic hat.

Man-Bat	Frank Robbins Neal Adams	Detective Comics #400 (June 1970)	Dr. Kirk Langstrom invented a serum to give him echolocation to cure his growing deafness.

Mr. Freeze	Bob Kane Sheldon Moldoff David Wood	Batman #121 (February 1959)	Dr. Victor Fries is a scientist who accidentally spilled cryogenic chemicals on himself while inventing a freeze-gun.

Penguin	Bob Kane Bill Finger	Detective Comics #58 (December 1941)	Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot is a devious bird-themed crime boss who is seldom seen without one of his trick umbrellas. The Penguin uses his nightclub, the Iceberg Lounge, as a front for his criminal activities.

Poison Ivy	Robert Kanigher Sheldon Moldoff	Batman #181 (June 1966)	Pamela Lillian Isley, a former student of advanced botanical biochemistry, employs plants of all varieties and their derivatives in her crimes.

Ra's al Ghul	Dennis O'Neil Neal Adams	Batman #232 (June 1971)	Ra's al Ghul ("demon's head" in Arabic) is a centuries-old international eco-terrorist who believes that his actions help "bring balance" to the world.

Riddler	Bill Finger Dick Sprang	Detective Comics #140 (October 1948)	Edward Nigma is a criminal mastermind who has a compulsion to challenge Batman by leaving clues to his crimes in the form of riddles, puzzles, and word-games.

Scarecrow	Bob Kane Bill Finger	World's Finest Comics #3 (September 1941)	Professor Jonathan Crane was an outcast in childhood due to the constant bullying, until he grew up to face his fears as a psychologist and biochemist in the specialization of fear.

Solomon Grundy	Alfred Bester Paul Reinman	All-American Comics #61 (October 1944)	Cyrus Gold was a Gotham City merchant who was murdered and thrown into Slaughter Swamp, where he was transformed into an undead, incredibly strong, zombie-like creature.

Two-Face	Bob Kane Bill Finger	Detective Comics #66 (August 1942)	Harvey Dent was a district attorney until half of his face was disfigured after being assaulted by mob boss Sal Maroni.

Ventriloquist	Alan Grant John Wagner Norm Breyfogle	Detective Comics #583 (February 1988)	Arnold Wesker is a small, mild-mannered ventriloquist. Under his dummy Scarface's psychological influence (via dissociative identity disorder), the Ventriloquist is a dangerous crime-boss.

Paul Dini Don Kramer	Detective Comics #827 (March 2007)	Peyton Riley, called "Sugar" by Scarface, became the second Ventriloquist after the death of Arnold Wesker.

Gail Simone	Batgirl (vol. 4) #20 (July 2013)	The third Ventriloquist, Shauna Belzer, is obsessed with murder. Through the use of telekinesis, Belzer murders innocent people with her "partner", a puppet she controls named Ferdie.

Victor Zsasz	Alan Grant Norm Breyfogle	Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 (June 1992)	Victor Zsasz is a serial killer who cuts a tally mark on to his own body for each of his victims.

Sentence(s)

Black Mask is one of the most enduring enemies of Batman and belongs to the collective adversaries that make up his rogues gallery.

final_sentence: Black Mask is one of the most enduring enemies of Batman and belongs to the collective adversaries that make up his rogues gallery.