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Zsasz first appeared in Shadow of the Bat # 1 ( 1992 ) as part of the Batman: The Last Arkham four-part story arc, and his origin story was told in Batman Chronicles # 3 ( 1996 ); both stories were written by Alan Grant and drawn by Norm Breyfogle.
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Zsasz and first
A naked, desperate and totally deranged Zsasz appeared in the first issue of Batman: Cacophony ( 2008 ), written by film director Kevin Smith, killing a young couple and threatening their children before Batman subdues him.
Zsasz and Shadow
During his debut appearance in Batman: Shadow of the Bats opening story arc, Batman: The Last Arkham, Zsasz bribes a contractor to include a secret passage leading out from his cell during the asylum's reconstruction under its new head, Jeremiah Arkham, who inherited the asylum from his uncle, Amadeus Arkham.
Zsasz and #
In Batman Chronicles # 3, told by Zsasz himself, it is learned that Victor Zsasz was the head of his own international company and had amassed a large personal fortune in addition to his family's wealth.
Zsasz later appears in Detective Comics # 796, where he fights Stephanie Brown in her role as Robin.
Zsasz makes a brief appearance in Infinite Crisis # 7.
Zsasz is not seen in any major villainous role again until Detective Comics # 815, released in March 2006, entitled " Victims ".
") During the second part of " Victims " ( Detective Comics # 816 ), after a fight with Batman, Zsasz proceeds to the hospital to finish off Alfred.
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Zsasz and Batman
This parodies the start of the game, with Batman being escorted into Arkham Asylum by Joker, with Harley Quinn and Victor Zsasz acting as guards, and Crane himself as a doctor.
Victor Zsasz ( or ) is a fictional supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics, usually as an enemy of Batman.
After murders fitting his modus operandi begin surfacing, Batman and Commissioner James Gordon fake Batman's insanity in order to get him inside the asylum and investigate Zsasz.
Jeremiah Arkham is exceptionally brutal towards Batman, who had supposedly murdered a police officer ; over the course of the " treatment ", Zsasz had warped Jeremiah's mind and turned him into a mere henchman.
Due to these continuous conversations with Jeremiah Arkham, Zsasz realises Batman is a plant and subsequently murders both the contractor and another inmate at Arkham who knows of Zsasz's ploy.
However, both Nightwing and Batman catch up to Zsasz when he tries to escape for the final time and put him back in Arkham.
In Part 3 of Knightfall, Zsasz takes an all-girls boarding school hostage and holds the students at knife point until Batman arrives, briefly leaving to kill two police officers who were sent to arrest him.
Though weakened both physically and mentally, Batman fights with Zsasz and tries to ignore the lunatic's mockery.
Batman hunts for Zsasz, which proves unsuccessful until Zsasz gains access to a charity event ( attended by Bruce Wayne ) and stabs his beloved butler, Alfred Pennyworth, in the stomach.
Batman catches him off-guard and knocks him unconscious, thus saving Alfred's life and sending Zsasz back to Arkham.
He ends up cutting Batman's arm just as he was waking up and the resulting fight ends with Zsasz being knocked unconscious and Batman being rushed to the hospital.
In the issue, Batman says that of all the criminals he fights, he hates Zsasz the most.
In addition to his wiry-yet-tall physique, Zsasz is an extremely agile and flexible man, able to go toe-to-toe with even Batman for brief bouts.
In Batman: Crimson Mist, Zsasz is one of the now-vampiric Batman's victims when he slaughters the inmates of Arkham Asylum, Batman tearing Zsasz's chest almost completely open with his talons to mark the scar that will represent Zsasz's own life before drinking Zsasz's blood and cutting off his head.
Zsasz and Arkham
Crane testifies in court that Victor Zsasz, one of Falcone's assassins, is legally insane and should be moved to Arkham for rehabilitation.
Although Zsasz is restrained during the daytime when he is being treated personally by Jeremiah Arkham, he is brought back to his cell at night where he would leave the asylum through the secret passage, unbeknownst to the night guards.
However, Zsasz was later seen in captivity in Detective Comics, after Black Mask's ( Jeremiah Arkham ) apprehension, in Arkham Asylum.
* Zsasz appears as one of the villains in Batman: Arkham Asylum voiced by Danny Jacobs.
* Zsasz appears in the sequel Batman: Arkham City, with Danny Jacobs reprising his role from Arkham Asylum.
He has drugged Arkham Asylum's inmates, including The Great White Shark, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, Mr. Zsasz, Jane Doe, and the Scarecrow, with a substance that can kill when triggered.
Among the freed inmates, there are numerous high-profile villains, such as the Joker ( who trapped Arkham's administrator Jeremiah Arkham ), the Scarecrow, and Poison Ivy as well as many less known villains, such as the Mad Hatter, The Ventriloquist, Firefly, Cavalier, The Film Freak and Mr. Zsasz.
* Victor Zsasz ( voiced by Tim Booth ): A sadistic serial killer loose in Arkham Asylum, Batman must stop him before he carves another kill into his skin.
The Joker, Two-Face, Clayface II ( Matt Hagen ), the Ventriloquist, Mr. Zsasz, Firefly, Calendar Man and Rupert Thorne are some criminals that have done time in both Arkham Asylum and in Blackgate Penitentiary.
Zsasz and story
No dialogue in the story arc references Zsasz being a skinhead nor does it explain his increased musculature, and it is likely these visual elements were the decision of the artist.
Zsasz is later seen again in the Gotham Underground story arc where, in issue 3, he appears in a disguised Batman's cell at Blackgate Prison and attempts to kill him with a knife.
This arrangement is explained further in a continuous story arc through the Streets of Gotham series, with Mask hiring Zsasz after he saved the former's life following a confrontation with former employee Firefly.
Zsasz and 3
Zsasz later appears in Part 3 and 4 of the Knightfall saga.
Zsasz and by
Having already made a scar for Alfred, Zsasz realises that his tally is off by one ( Zsasz remarks: " My skin ... it's crawling ... every inch of it feels ...
Additionally, Chiang's portrayal of Zsasz is more outwardly physically imposing than the gaunt, wiry physique created by Breyfogle and favored by most subsequent artists.
In the Battle For The Cowl storyline, Zsasz is recruited by a new Black Mask into a group of villains aiming to take over Gotham.
During the prison break, Zsasz is killed by arsonist Heat Wave.
* Zsasz appears briefly in the 2005 film Batman Begins, portrayed by Tim Booth ( the vocalist of British band James ).
It is mentioned by Penguin that Victor Zsasz has murdered over 100 men, women and children.
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