Jeremiah Arkham

Lurking in the shadowed halls of Gotham's most infamous institution, Jeremiah Arkham made his mark on DC Comics when Alan Grant and Mark Buckingham introduced him in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 in 1999, a thoroughly Modern Age creation steeped in the city's darkest corners. His presence across nearly two and a half decades — turning up in the pages of Detective Comics and Batman: Shadow of the Bat — speaks to a character who found a genuine foothold in Gotham's sprawling mythology. He keeps genuinely unsettling company, sharing pages with the likes of Basil Karlo, Jervis Tetch, Oracle, Nightwing, and Batgirl, which tells you everything about the charged, dangerous world he inhabits. For readers drawn to the psychological and gothic underpinnings of Batman's universe, Jeremiah Arkham is a figure well worth seeking out.