THE BRAINSTORMS

And icon status versus staying power. When we think of the earliest Batman foes, most people on the street would say Joker, or Catwoman. And they'd be right, if we were only talking about Batman (1940), but there was more before that. Doctor Death, one of the first foes Batman ever faces, is literally a doctor obsessed with death who creates poisons in special delivery mechanisms with the intent to kill people. He's the first recurring foe, simply because he appears in one is