Humpty Dumpty (comics)
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Humpty Dumpty is a DC Comics villain most commonly associated with Batman.
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 Humpty Dumpty on the cover of Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #3 |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #2 (2003) |
| Created by | Dan Slott and Ryan Sook |
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| Alter ego | Humphry Dumpler |
| Team affiliations | Secret Society of Super Villains |
| Notable aliases | The Hobby Robber |
| Abilities | Knack for piecing together broken or disassembled items |
[edit] Fictional character history
Humpty Dumpty, the Hobby Robber is a DC Comics character who premiered in Superboy #6 (January/February 1950).
Another villain by the name of Humpty Dumpty debuted in the 2003 series Arkham Asylum: Living Hell. As represented in the latter series, he is fascinated with taking things apart and then putting them back together. This informs his crimes; he would sneak out late at night to disassemble and reassemble mechanical devices which had upset him in some way. As his sole knowledge about their workings came from books borrowed from the public library, the "fixed" devices caused numerous accidents.
Humpty's final crime was to adjust the gears in a clock tower. This caused one of its hands to fly off and a chain reaction in which dozens of enormous signage objects crashed to the streets and killed people (which inspired a law banning such devices.). When Batgirl tried to apprehend him for this, he fell off the rooftop. She saved him - but dislocated her arms in the process. Humpty, being far from aggressive, promptly slipped her arms back into her sockets and surrendered himself to her. Revealing that she had tracked him by his overdue library withdrawals, her sole request was why he had withdrawn a book on human anatomy. Humpty placidly took her back to his home to reveal he had killed his abusive grandmother and hacked her apart, then attempted to sew her together again with bootlace. It was likely this crime that resulted in his being sentenced to Arkham Asylum.
He was a model prisoner at Arkham Asylum. There he befriends Warren White, and saves his life from Death Rattle (Living Hell original) and Two Face before Warren became Great White Shark. He joined Luthor's Society, as shown in the pages of Villains United.
