Great White (comics)
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The Great White Shark is the name of a DC Comics villain. He first appeared in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1, and was created by Dan Slott and Ryan Sook.
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In a 2003 Arkham Asylum: Living Hell six-issue mini written by Dan Slott and penciled by Ryan Sook, formerly crooked investor Warren "The Great White Shark" White avoided prison time by pleading insanity and was sentenced to Arkham Asylum. There, he suffered great indignities and torture, including Killer Croc slicing a set of "gills" into the "prison fish"'s neck. White was assaulted and locked in a refrigeration unit by the villainess Jane Doe, who was attempting to claim his identity. His injuries, sustained by excessive frost bite, left White deformed: His skin turned a pale white, and the frostbite claimed his nose, lips, hair, and several of his fingers, which, along with his set of "gills" leave him very much resembling a great white shark. Driven partially mad, he now uses his business connections to serve as a liaison and fence for many of his fellow inmates.
In Batman #654, as part of the One Year Later storyline, James Robinson wrote "Face the Face", a story pencilled by Don Kramer and Leonard Kirk running concurrently in both Batman and Detective Comics, establishing the status quo for following runs by Paul Dini and Grant Morrison. We learn that the Great White Shark has been using his mob connections (as well as the assassin Tally Man) to kill those associated with the Penguin, as well as to frame the newly rehabilitated Harvey Dent for their murders. The Great White Shark remains in Arkham, directing these actions from within as an alibi. Batman has since confronted him, and has threatened to tell Dent, who had redisfigured his face and returned to crime, about the frame job, promising to let Two-Face have a shot at the Great White Shark when Two-Face is captured and returned to Arkham.
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