However, Caspian, who knows what charges he is up against, tells Batman that he will make a fine successor, and lets go of the ledge, plummeting to his death. Batman, who had intended to marry Caspian's daughter Rachel, was shocked, and holds out his hand to help the Reaper. The Reaper engages Batman in a fierce battle, losing the Dark Knight leaves him hanging from the scaffolding of a building under construction, and unmasks him.
After revealing his identity to Chill and putting a gun to his head, Batman's revenge was taken by the Reaper, who shoots Chill in the head. Having been assigned by the Gotham mob to kill both the Reaper and Batman when he had finished, Chill hunts the Reaper alongside Batman. After losing a fight with the Reaper, Batman was forced to join forces with Joe Chill, the man who killed his parents. The Reaper subsequently moved to Europe.Īfter Caspian returned from Europe, he renewed his role as the Reaper, which brought him into conflict with Batman. Vastly overpowered during an encounter between the two, the Reaper lashed out in a panic with his nunchaku and, by happenstance, struck Green Lantern, whose force-field was vulnerable to the wooden weapons. His murder spree prompted Alan Scott to briefly emerge from retirement to confront him as Green Lantern.
After losing his wife to a robber in the streets, he becomes The Reaper, who prowled Gotham City during the 1950s, murdering juvenile delinquents by impaling them with a scythe. Judson Caspian is a socialite by day, and a vigilante by night. Batman eventually reveals to Gruener that he was not built to last and his body is deteriorating, turning him loose on Strange. He follows the Black Mask's orders in exchange for daily shot provided by Hugo Strange and Doctor Death, member of the Mask's Ministry of Death. Gruener later became the nazi-hunter vigilante, "The Reaper" until he stumbled off a dam in Vermont during a Halloween Parade and was presumed dead.īenjamin Gruener reappeared after having been cryogenically frozen and now thawed out by order of Black Mask. Benjamin Gruener was a Jewish-German doctor who witnessed his family's death at the hands of nazis in the holocaust. He kills Schloss at a Halloween parade and dies battling Batman when he falls off a dam. The Grim Reaper can also separate the souls from the living by banging the scythe on the ground.The first Reaper Reaper was one Doctor Gruener, a German Jew who was placed in a concentration camp run by Colonel Kurt Schloss. The soul can be released there or stored in the scythe until later. The blade of the scythe cannot disrupt the physical body, not leaving marks. The Grim Reaper can use the scythe and swipe the blade across a dead body, releasing the soul from its corporeal form. The Scythe is used to separate souls from their hosts, dead or living. It can be extended to three feet if needed. A rope wraps around the entirety of the staff and ties the blade to the rest. The staff is black and textured to appear like wood. The staff itself is nearly seven feet in length with a two-foot-long blade. Orcus, named after the God of the Underworld in Roman and Italic mythology, is a cursed scythe wielded by the Grim Reaper. It can adversely kill any non-undead creature instantly upon touching. It is used to separate the souls of the dead from their bodies. Orcus, the Grim Reaper's Scythe, is a cursed staff wielded by Thanatos, the Greek god of death.
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