As I mentioned previously, in Gotham by Gaslight Inspector Gordon makes a casual reference to a killer that was recently apprehended who might seem familiar...

Gordon tells us this unnamed fiend married no fewer than ten rich women, and then murdered each one of them with strychnine. When the police caught him, the killer drank some of his own poison, and although the results weren't fatal, they were certainly grisly.

I appreciated that Gaslight writer Brian Augustyn was trying to establish a 19th century pantheon of villains for his Victorian Batman, it lets one extrapolate beyond the single comic and imagine further adventures for him. Plus, Victorian Joker looks creepy as hell.

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