Cyrus Gold (Earth 1)

**Solomon Grundy** was a zombie who lived in the sewers of Gotham City and later became an enemy of the vigilante known as Batman.

## Biography

### Born on a Monday

Sometime in the past, a Human named Cyrus Gold was killed and through unknown causes turned revived and turned into a zombie. After being brought back, he was unable to speak anything else than the first two lines of an old childrens poem: "Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday", whose first two words would henceforth be his new name. At some point after the vigilante known as the Batman started to work in Gotham City, he found Grundy in the sewers system and while not directly befriending him, made some sort of agreement that he would keep others from entering the sewers and disturbing Grundy and Solomon would not leave them and endanger innocent people.

### The Long Halloween

During the year in which a serial killer only known as Holiday started to target the members of the Falcone Crime Family, Mickey Chen, who had previously been hired by the Roman to kill Two-Face|Harvey Dent, which he failed to do, was hunted down by Batman and while his accomplices distracted him, Chen tried to escape into the sewers. He was quickly found by Grundy, who planned to kill him but Batman was able to talk the zombie out of it and Chen was released. Solomon then walked back deeper into the sewer system while saying the only phrase he was capable of. Later, on Thanksgiving evening, Batman took the time to bring Grundy a meal, made up of some of his Thanksgiving Dinner. Later, on Christmas Eve, the mob boss Salvatore Maroni was being interrogated by Batman about the escaped Arkham inmate theJoker, and among others such as Killer Moth and Croc, he mentioned how before things like Grundy only really came out of the shadow once he did, implying that he may have met Grundy once. Several months later, former district attorney Harvey Dent found himself scarred by Maroni and after a confrontation with some of Falcones henchmen, looked for shelter in the sewers, where he met Grundy. The two quickly became friends and Solomon even brought Dent some dead mice to eat. As they talked, Harvey interpreted Grundy's "born on a Monday" as him being brought back to life and, inspired by this, decided to embrace his new "look" and removed the bandages covering his face and repeated Grundy's phrase. On Labour day, they attacked the prison transport of Maroni and while Grundy distracted a guard who later revealed himself to be Batman, sent Maroni right to Two-Face, as Dent called himself now. Though, Batman defeated Grundy and incapacitated him, neither he nor the present police captain James Gordon were able to prevent Maroni being shot and murdered by Holiday. Dent escaped with Grundy. Then, on October 31st, the broke several super criminals out of Arkham Asylum in order to attack Falcone in his tower. With the help of the Joker, Penguin, Scarecrow, Mad Hatter and Poison Ivy, they attacked the mafia boss, removing any form of resistance in their way. Grundy, along with Joker, Two-Face and Penguin, entered through the main elevator and Grundy acted as a bulletproof shield for the others as soon as they arrived and were shot at. He took out all of the goons in the room and shielded the others from Sofia Falcone's machine gun fire, before Penguin took her out of the equation. As they then captured Falcone, Grundy and the others waited for Two-Face to end his life so they could have the city for themselves but Batman and Catwoman entered and systematically took out each and every one of them. Grundy tried to attack Batman, but was sent asleep by the Fear gas inside Scarecrow's Glove which Batman had placed in his mouth, rendering him unconscious and inactive for the rest of the fight. Grundy is taken to Arkham along with Dent and the criminals.

### The Office

Entering the sewers, Batman fights Solomon Grundy, and he leads Batman to Harvey's new office. Searching his office, there is an explosion and Batman loses Two-Face underground. In Gordon's office, he is talking and trying to persuade Janice to accept Batman, and she agrees, as long as he follows the law.

### The Hangman Murders

Once a place controlled by organized crime, Gotham City suddenly finds itself being run by lawless freaks, such as Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and the Joker. It is still early in Batman's crimefighting career, but the Dark Knight is on the verge of completing his transformation into the city's greatest defender.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Julian Day / Calendar Man - friend and inmate

* Jonaathan Crane / Scarecrow - friend and inmate

* Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin - friend and inmate

* Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy - friend and inmate

* Harvey Dent / Two-Face - friend and inmate

* Victor Fries / Mr. Freeze - friend and inmate

* Waylon Jones / Killer Croc - friend and inmate

* Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter - friend and inmate

* Edward Nashton / Riddler - friend and inmate

* Kirt Langstrom / Man-Bat - friend and inmate

* Garfield Lynns / Firefly - friend and inmate

* Drury Walker / Killer Moth - friend and inmate

* Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn - friend and inmate

### Enemies

* Bruce Wayne / Batman - formal friend and now enemy
* Dick Grayson / Robin - enemy
* Barbara Gordon / Batgirl - enemy
* Jason Todd / Robin ll † - enemy
* Tim Drake / Robin lll - enemy

* Gotham City Police Department
	+ James Gordon
	+ Harvey Bullock
	+ Renee Montoya
	+ Janice Porter † - victim

* Selina Kyle/Catwoman
* Carmine Falcone † - Enemy
* Alberto Falcone/Holiday † - Enemy
* Sofia Falcone/Hangman † - Enemy
* Sal Maroni † - Enemy