Black Mask (character)

Uncommon card · No. 77018

Black Mask is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Doug Moench and artist Tom Mandrake, the character first appeared in Batman #386 (1985) and has become one of the superhero Batman's most enduring enemies, belonging to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery. Black Mask is the alter ego of Roman Sionis, a ruthless businessman and one of Gotham City's most powerful crime lords with a fixation on masks and torture. Abused and neglected by his wealthy but narcissistic parents as a child, he developed a deep-seated hatred for the "masks" they wore in public and the artificiality of Gotham's social elite. After murdering his parents and carving a black ebony mask from his father's coffin, he formed an organization called the False Face Society and became a brutal and sadistic crime boss vying to take control of Gotham's criminal underworld, bringing him into conflict with Batman. Black Mask also harbors a personal grudge...

Read on Wikipedia