Bug-Eyed Bandit
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Bug-Eyed Bandit is the name of two DC Comics supervillains.
[edit] Fictional character biography
| Bug-Eyed Bandit | |
 The Bug-Eyed Bandit's debut, on the cover of Atom #26. Art by Gil Kane. |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Atom #26 (August-September 1966) |
| Created by | Gardner Fox (script) Gil Kane (art) |
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| Alter ego | Bertram Larvan |
| Abilities | Control of insects |
[edit] Bertram Larvan
Bertram Larvan was an inventor who designed a mechanical insect to control insect pests. Unfortunately, he had no financial backing to support his invention. He resolved to steal money he needed for his invention. He later used his invention to steal more. Soon, he had an army of mechanical insects. Two of his many insects were stag beetles who could bite through steel and spiders with webs that could support the weight of a man. Bertram took the name of the Bug-Eyed Bandit. He was thwarted by the Atom.
Later, he accidentally discovers Atom's identity of Ray Palmer and fought him on different occasions. When he was about to use an amnesiac gas he had invented on Atom, he accidentally uses it on himself. He remains in a state of amnesia for years. During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, millions of Shadow Demons, servants of the Anti-Monitor, attack the Earth. Bertram is one of the many casualties. Marv Wolfman has gone on record saying that he killed both the original Bug-Eyed Bandit and the Ten-Eyed Man because he “couldn’t be part of a company that would print [them].”
A flashback concerning his death happens in Batman Villains Secret Files and Origins 2005.
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Justice League America #43 (October 1990) |
| Created by | Keith Giffen J.M. DeMatteis Adam Hughes |
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| Team affiliations | The Society |
| Abilities | Control of insects |
[edit] Son of the Bug-Eyed Bandit
The second Bug-Eyed Bandit is first presented as such in Adventures of Superman #608 (November 2002). But his first appearances can be traced as far back as Justice League America #43 (1990), where a Bug-Eyed Bandit appeared even though the original was supposed to be dead at the time. The current one is the son of the original Bandit, but not very successful. He recently reappeared in Villains United and Infinite Crisis as a member of the Society. His current whereabouts are unknown.
