Joey

Religion: indeterminate

Name: Joey

Classification: villain

Publisher(s):

First Appearance: New York World's Fair Comics #2 (1940): "Batman and Robin Visit the New York World's Fair"

Creators: Bill Finger, Bob Kane, George Roussos

Number of Appearances: 1

Enemy of: Batman, Robin

Occupation: thug

Worked for: Dr. Hugo Vreekill

Gender: male

Joey was one of a number of thugs hired by Dr. Hugo Vreekill to use the evil scientist's steel-melting technology to destroy bridges in a bid to demand blackmail money from the bridge construction firms. Joey's name was revealed in panel 7 page 6. Joey worked with a handful of other, unnamed thugs. The crew appears to have had about six men in it. Joey and his cohorts were setting up one Dr. Vreekill's machine on another bridge when they were thwarted by Batman and Robin and turned over to police.

This character is in the following story which has been indexed by this website:

New York World's Fair Comics #2 (1940): "Batman and Robin Visit the New York World's Fair" (5-panel cameo)

Suggested links for further research about this character:
- https://www.comics.org/issue/1173/
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=5580