![]() In 2009's "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" by Neil Gaiman, Joe Chill is seen as the bartender attending Batman's funeral (The funeral itself being a near death experience). Fearing what his fellow gangsters would do to him if they found out, it is implied that he takes his own life with the gun. Chill finally realizes who Batman is, and that he was the one who created the Batman. There is one bullet left within it (possibly meant for Bruce). On his final visit, Batman gives Chill the gun he used to kill the Waynes. Chill is living as a shut in, but his guards never see or catch Batman during the visits. In this story, Batman has visited and frightened Chill every night for a month. Any crimes he committed, including the Waynes' murder, he blamed on class warfare. He had built the Land, Sea, Air Transport company from the ground up (most likely through illegal means). This change is consistent with the previous year's film Batman Begins, in which Chill is also caught shortly after murdering the Waynes.Īs revealed in the 2008 Grant Morrison story, "Joe Chill in Hell" (featured in Batman #673), Joe was a mid-level crime boss. In 2006's Infinite Crisis #6, another cosmic crisis reestablished that Chill murdered Thomas and Martha Wayne and added for the first time that Chill is arrested on that same night for their murder. ![]() The rationale for this change was that it would allow Batman to view all criminals as surrogates for the man who killed his parents After the new Reaper is defeated, Batman accepts that the bad blood between him and the Chills is now over.Īfter 1994's Zero Hour storyline, DC Comics stated that Batman did not catch or confront his parents' murderer after having seen in an alternate timeline that Chill hadn't done it after all. However, thanks to the intervention of Robin, Batman frees himself from the drug-induced haze, and overcome his guilt. Chill knows that his father had killed Batman's parents, but does not know of Batman's identity. He seeks revenge for his father's death, and subsequently attempts to drive Batman insane by using hallucinogenic drugs to trigger Batman's survivor's guilt over his parents' deaths. In the 1991 sequel, Batman: Full Circle, Chill's son (also named Joe Chill) appears, taking on the identity of the now deceased Reaper. It is left ambiguous as to whether or not Batman would have actually pulled the trigger. Batman has Chill at gunpoint, but the Reaper appears and guns Chill down. There he confronts Chill and reveals his identity. Batman takes him to " Crime Alley," the scene of his parents' murder. Chill reasons that he now no longer needs to fulfill his contract. During a major confrontation, the crime bosses are all killed in a battle at a warehouse in which the Reaper seemingly also perishes. Chill is also commissioned to kill Batman after the Reaper has been disposed of. He nevertheless justifies it to himself as necessary to tackle the Reaper. ![]() When Batman proposes an alliance it is agreed that he and Chill will work together, something Batman finds repugnant. Several Gotham City crime bosses pool their resources to deal with a vigilante called the Reaper and Chill is hired to take him out. In the post-Crisis 1987 storyline Batman: Year Two, Chill played a key role. In the 1980 miniseries The Untold Legend of the Batman, Alfred Pennyworth reminisces that Joe Chill is the son of one Alice Chilton, a one-time caretaker of young Bruce Wayne. In Detective Comics #235 (1956), Batman learns that Chill is not a mere robber, but actually a hitman who has murdered the Waynes on contract with a Mafia boss named Lew Moxon. Chill dies addressing Batman as Bruce, and the two make a kind of peace with one another. Before the dying Chill has a chance to reveal Batman's identity, Batman catches up and renders the goons unconscious. A moment later, the men realize how valuable Chill's knowledge is to them. ![]() Luckily for Batman, Chill did not specify any names while explaining his hand in the crime-fighter's origin. Once they learn that Chill's actions led to the hated Batman's existence, they instead turn on their boss and fatally shoot him. The frightened Chill flees, seeks out his cohorts, explains the encounter, and begs for their protection. Batman confronts him and reveals his secret identity. In that issue, Batman discovers that Joe Chill, the small-time crime boss he is investigating, is none other than the man who killed his parents. The mugger, however, was not given a name until Batman #47 (June-July 1948). Chill learns he was responsible for the creation of Batman.īatman's origin story was first established in a sequence of panels in Detective Comics #33 (November 1939) and later reproduced in the publication Batman #1 (Spring 1940). ![]()
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