| Jonny Double | |
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Jonny Double, on the cover of Showcase #78. Art by Dick Giordano |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Showcase #78 (November 1968) |
| Created by | Len Wein Marv Wolfman |
| In-story information | |
| Full name | Jonathan Sebastian Double |
| Abilities | None |
Jonathan Sebastian "Jonny" Double is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. Created by Len Wein and Marv Wolfman, he first appeared in Showcase #78 (November 1968).[1]
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Double appeared in various other DC titles, including Challengers of the Unknown #74 (June–July 1970), Wonder Woman, and Kobra. Most recently Double was featured in Jonny Double: Two Finger Discount, a 1998 four-issue mini-series by Brian Azzarello (writer) and Eduardo Risso (artist), and published by Vertigo/DC Comics.
Jonny is an ex-police officer and now a down-on-his-luck private investigator working in San Francisco.[1] Deliberately anachronistic, his speech is laced with beatnik and 1960s hipster slang. As described in his first appearance in Showcase, Double is "a down-beat Don Quixote in a society that frowns on windmills. A once white knight in rusty armor searching for that last dragon to slay. The poor man's Peter Pan."
Jonny appeared in four issues of Wonder Woman.[2]
In 1998, Brian Azzarello wrote a four-issue limited series starring Jonny Double, in which Jonny attempts to abscond with the money in an old bank account belonging to Al Capone.[3]