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Vandal Savage To Take A Very Important Position In Gotham (Spoilers)

Vandal Savage is a Cro-Magnon warrior who gained immortality and advanced healing abilities and now has a new role in Gotham for Batman.

Published Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:58:09 -0600

by Rich Johnston

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Vandal Savage assumes new social role, purchasing Wayne Manor in Gotham.
Immortal tactician gains fresh immortality from Gotham's Lazarus meteorite.
Court Of Owls possibly recruiting Savage for undisclosed agenda.
Speculation abounds on Savage's potential alliance with Batman

Vandal Savage is a Cro-Magnon warrior in the DC Comics Universe who gained immortality and advanced healing abilities after encountering a meteorite during prehistoric times that would later create Lazarus Pits. He has spent those millennia as a conqueror and tactician, learning all sciences, combat, and more.

Created by Alfred Bester and Martin Nodell for Green Lantern in 1943, the character has visited much of the DC Universe and, more recently, made part of a larger group of primitive humans who all became long-lived as a result of encountering the meteor and forming the Council of Immortals. To which Ra's Al Ghul was once the youngest member… tales still to be told.

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But tales that will be told in Batman going forward are his new position in society, as a result of buying the Wayne Manor, and gaining new immortality from a new Lazarus meteorite, which he caused to hit Gotham, albeit in a reduced form than originally planned. And now approached by a mysterious group (probably the Court Of Owls) who have further plans for Vandal Savage in Gotham society.

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Traditionally, Jim Gordon is Police Commissioner of Gotham PD, but Renee Montoya has filled that role of late. Will Police Commissioner Vandal Savage work with Batman in the same way the others did? Turning on the Bat Signal? After all, he does know who Batman is…

Batman #140 by Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez is published by DC Comics today.

BATMAN #140 CVR A JORGE JIMENEZ
(W) Chip Zdarsky (A/CA) Jorge Jimenez
It's Batman versus The Joker in their most brutal fight of all time. But wait…Batman is also battling a legion of himself! What has Zur done? And who will walk away? The brutal Mindbomb continues! Retail: $4.99 In-Store Date: 12/05/2023

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