Deever Tweed

Deever Tweed is one half of the Tweedledee and Tweedledum duo, rotund Gotham City criminals loosely inspired by the Lewis Carroll characters, who use their identical, corpulent appearances and theatrical personas to commit crimes and bedevil Batman.

Half of one of Gotham's most memorably odd duos, Deever Tweed has been lurking in the shadows of DC's Batman titles since his 1987 Copper Age debut — fittingly introduced to readers in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe, the ultimate roll call of DC's rich roster. Over nearly four decades he's turned up across Batman, Detective Comics, and even the delightful Batman: Li'l Gotham, keeping company with the Dark Knight himself, Bruce Wayne, and luminaries like Superman and Green Lantern. With 21 appearances spanning 1987 to the present and a place in the same pages as Dumfree Tweed, Deever is a piece of Gotham's wonderfully strange fabric — the kind of deep-cut character that reminds you why DC's universe rewards the devoted collector who digs past the first tier.