Characters
Familiar characters from the Batman mythos as well as some characters based on Shelley's novel are adapted to fit this Elseworlds.
- Bruce Wayne: orphaned when his parents were killed in highway robbery, Bruce becomes a doctor like his father asked him to before he died. He soon becomes obsessed with death, reanimation and transferring physical traits from one living being to another.
- Alfred Pennyworth: Alfredo, in this story, Bruce Wayne's butler is a hunchback who serves as his assistant and servant.
- Thomas Wayne: Bruce's father, a highly reputed doctor who believed there was no nobler profession. He is murdered by a highway robber and later reanimated by Bruce and becomes the Bat-Man. His appearance is an obvious homage to the monster in the 1931 movie.
- Joe Chill: The Robber/Mr. Van Klooster A murderering lackey that kills Thomas and Martha Wayne. He wears a costume reminiscent of the Scarecrow.
- Doctor Seltsam: a doctor at the university, he wonders what Bruce's secret experiments consist of. He is also responsible for developing a liquid capable of preserving dead tissue for over 15 years.
- The Bat-Hound: Bruce creates a part dog, part bat animal that is excellent at tracking at night.
- Fraülein (Julia) Lavenza, Bruce Wayne's fiancée, based on Elizabeth from Shelley's novel.
- Commissioner Jim Gordon: Bürgermeister Gordon A clever chief of policemen who suspects somethings amiss when a highway robber calls Bruce Wayne's fiancée by her name.
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