Baffler

Emerging from the gritty Gotham underworld of Chuck Dixon and Tom Grummett's Robin in 1994, Baffler is a Copper/Modern Age DC villain whose very name crackles with the kind of theatrical menace that made that era's Batman titles so compelling. With two of their three catalogued appearances carrying key-issue weight, this is a character whose small footprint punches above its size — and sharing pages with the likes of Robin, Cluemaster, and Harvey Bullock places Baffler squarely in the rough-and-tumble corner of Gotham that Dixon made his own. A quarter-century of publication history rounds out the portrait of a figure well worth tracking down for any serious collector of the Dark Knight's extended world.