Did everyone enjoy this week’s episode of Gotham? Viper.  I loved it.  They showed Viper to be the early version of Venom.  What’s Venom?  Let me enlighten you.  The drug Venom first appeared in Legends of the Dark Knight #16-20 (March-July 1991).  In this story (also titled Venom), We see a Batman in the beginning of his career, as most of the Legends stories portrayed.

The name Arkham Asylum comes from the fictional institution in many H.P. Lovecraft stories where it is located in Arkham Massachusetts.  It wasn’t until Batman #326 (1980) that the full name Arkham Asylum was used.  The asylum had a long history of madness that predated most of it’s “patients”.  In the early 1900’s, Elizabeth Arkham, s

Continuing the theme of characters from the TV show Gotham, this week I’ll explore the life of Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin).  The Penguin’s first appearance was in Detective Comics #58 (December 1941).  Storylines that chronicled his childhood showed Oswald Cobblepot to by a short, chubby young boy with a big nose that was constantly harassed by the neighborhood bullies.

This week I’ll be continuing the Gotham series with a look at Catwoman.  The character first appeared in Batman #1 (1940) and was only known as “the Cat” in that first story.  She appears again in Batman #2 and #3, not wearing any of her famous cat costumes, but already the classic character, intriguing (attracting) Batman.  

I thought I’d follow through with what I said last week and convey the story of Commissioner James “Jim” Gordon since Gotham has started to air this last week.  Jim Gordon shares many similarities to Batman.  His first appearance was also Batman’s first appearance, the first panel of the first page of the first Batman story in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939).  So Jim Gordon became the very first Batman supporting character...