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Batman: The Widening Gyre #1 (Oct. 2009):
“Turning and Turning”
by Kevin Smith, Walt Flanagan, Art Thibert

Batman: The Widening Gyre #1

Title: “Turning and Turning”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 2009

Publisher: DC
Written by: Kevin Smith
Art by: Walt Flanagan, Art Thibert


14 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Batman Batman (Bruce Wayne)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: ICBR Scale: S Episcopalian / Catholic (lapsed); atheist
Batman family; Quinntets...  DC 11,112
Nightwing Nightwing (Dick Grayson) hero
CBR Scale: I Christian (denomination unknown); raised Gypsy/Roma
Batman family; Super Friends...  DC 4,498
Alfred Pennyworth Alfred Pennyworth supporting character
CBR Scale: I Anglican
[butler] DC 3,048
The Joker The Joker villain
CBR Scale: M anarchist; obsessed with being Batman's arch-enemy
Injustice League; The Injustice Gang...  DC 1,679
Poison Ivy Poison Ivy (Pamela Lillian Isley) villain
CBR Scale: M fundamentalist
Environmentalist
Injustice League; Secret Society of Super Villains...  DC 414
Killer Croc Killer Croc (Waylon Jones) villain
  Secret Society of Super Villains DC 202
Demon Demon (Jason Blood / Etrigan) hero
CBR Scale: S religious
The Justice League DC 342
Atomic Skull (Dr. Albert Michaels)
(flashback)
villain
CBR Scale: D Nazi
[1st app: Superman (vol. 1) #303 (Sep. 1976)] DC 15
Baron Blitzkrieg (Reiter)
(flashback)
villain
  [] DC 13
Gavin Adam supporting character
  [psyche major; death investigated by Nightwing, Batman] DC 1
Two-Face Two-Face (Harvey Dent)
(cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: M obsessed with dualism and
number 2; Taoist
Injustice League; The Injustice Gang DC 240
The Riddler The Riddler (Edward Nygma)
(cameo)
villain
  Secret Society of Super Villains; The Legion of Doom DC 302
Mad Hatter Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)
(cameo)
villain
  Secret Six; Secret Society of Super Villains DC 126
Tweedledee and Tweedledum Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Deever and Dumson Tweed)
(cameo) 
villain
  Secret Society of Super Villains; The Wonderland Gang DC 25