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Robert Crichton (comics)

Supporting character in media based on DC Comics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ7343193 ↗
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Robert Crichton is a supporting character in various media based on DC Comics series. He is typically established as the warden of a prison or mental hospital.

Crichton was created for Batman (1966), where he is portrayed by David Lewis and depicted as the warden of Gotham City's prison. A separate character based on Crichton appears in the sequel comic Batman '66 as the warden of Gotham Penitentiary. In contrast to the original depiction of the character, this version is an African-American woman.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Robert, Crichton and comics is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Crichton (comics)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.