Here is an obscure Batman villain who has seen action on two continents. Death-Man was a villain with one gimmick: he could put himself in a yoga trance that resembles death, which he used to escape police custody. He only made one appearance in the American comics in the 1960s, because once his gimmick was discovered by Batman and Robin, there wasn't much else to do with the character. However, Death-Man's one U.S. outing was one of the Batman stories retold in the 1960s Batman manga by Jiro Kuwata in Japan, where he was renamed Lord Death Man (and which was also creatively animated in one of the Brave & Bold episodes). And it is under that name that he was revived in 2010 in Batman Inc as a Japan-based, death-obsessed villain with a death-defying power upgrade who has not only hounded the Dark Knight, but also Batman's Japanese representative, Mr Unknown,and the Talon.

I decided to make him because, why not? I was trying to figure out what to do with some of my fodder. The base is from a variant Mattel Batman figure. The gloves are from a DCD Deathstroke, the cape is fodder, and the skull was one of 3 that I got off eBay. Since he has recently been Japan=based I decided to give him a katana.

Easy custom and another addition to my growing collection of bat-villains.