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 Egghead as he appears in the comics. Art byNorm Breyfogle. | |
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| First appearance | Batman "An Egg Grows in Gotham" (October 19, 1966) |
| First comic appearance | Batman: Shadow of the Bat #3 (August 1992) |
| Created by | Alan Grant Norm Breyfogle |
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| Full name | Edgar Heed |
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Egghead (Edgar Heed) is a fictional character created for the 1960sBatmantelevision series. Played byVincent Price, the character was identifiable by his pale bald head and white and yellow suit. He believes himself to be "the world's smartest criminal", and his crimes usually have an egg motif to them; he also includes egg-related puns in his speech and uses various egg-themed weapons. Additionally, Egghead used deductive reasoning to deduce Batman's secret identity.
Egghead was one of several characters created specifically for the TV series, alongsideKing Tut, Shame, the Siren, Chandell, theBookworm. Egghead would go on to appear onBatman comic books and other media, just asHarley Quinn later first appeared inBatman: The Animated Series before being introduced to the comics.
There had been several minor characters known as Egghead, but they were bald secondary gangsters that had little to do with the TV series character. The first, spelled Egg-Head, was an associate, along with bespectacled Fish-Eyes, of jewel thief Michael Baffle inDetective Comics #63 (May 1942).[1] Another Egghead was in Mike Optik's gang in "Dick Grayson, Telegraph Boy!" inBatman #22 (April-May 1944).[2] He was not very intelligent, and Professor Hendricks tricked him into thinking he was on a rocket in outer space to get him to reveal the location of Optik's hideout.
Marvel Comics'Egghead debuted in December 1962'sTales to Astonish #38.
Introduced in the second season consecutive episodes "An Egg Grows in Gotham" and "The Yegg Foes in Gotham", Egghead joins forces with Chief Screaming Chicken (Edward Everett Horton) of theMohican Indian tribe to revert control ofGotham City to the chief's people in exchange for governing the city allowing the criminal underground to run amok, only to be foiled byBatman andRobin.
In the third season, Egghead is joined by his new partner and love interest Olga, Queen of the Cossacks (Anne Baxter), as they attempt to hatch an egg containing aNeosaurus and feed Robin andBatgirl to it and steal the Sword of Bulbul and the Egg of Ogg, only to be foiled by Batman on both occasions. In "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra", the titular Cassandra Spellcraft and her husband Cabala free Egghead, among other criminals, from prison to help them take over Gotham, giving them camouflage pills to better facilitate their crime spree and promising Egghead control of Gotham's poultry farms.
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Egghead first comic appearance was an unnamed cameo inBatman: Shadow of the Bat #3-4. He appears as an inmate ofArkham Asylum before he is freed byJeremiah Arkham and fights Batman.
Egghead's first named appearance was in the 2010 issue ofBatman: The Brave and the Bold #16. Here he has teamed up with an egg-shaped villain named Ygg'Phu Soggoth. This comic is the first to give Egghead the name Edgar Heed.
Professor Egghead appears inGotham Academy #14.
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