Bookworm (Batman 1966 TV Series)

Bookworm
Batman '66‎
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Real Name	Unknown
Main Alias	Bookworm
Base Of Operations	Gotham City
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Secret Identity
Occupation	Professional criminal
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Brown
Origin
Universe	Batman (1966 TV Series)
Creators	William Dozier · Larry Peerce · Hendrik Vollaerts
First Appearance	"The Bookworm Turns" (April 20, 1966)
Last Appearance	Archie Meets Batman '66 #3 (November, 2018)

The Bookworm was a professional criminal who specialized in crimes that involved books. He wore an outfit that resembled the details of antique book binding converted into a men's-suit form.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Genius Level Intellect: He can read the greatest book in seconds. The Bookworm likes to quote books and knows each chapter, each page, and the paragraph that contains each quote.
  • Photographic Memory
• Leadership
  

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• For Whom the Bell Tolls: A bomb disguised as a book that the Bookworm used in an attempt to blow up the Batmobile.

Transportation

• Batmobile (Briefly)

Notes

• The Bookworm was portrayed by Roddy McDowall, who later voiced Jervis Tetch, the Mad Hatter, in Batman: The Animated Series. Of his appearance in the 1960s live action "Bat-Series," McDowall admitted to Joel Eisner in The Official Batman Batbook that he found his outfit as the Bookworm "very hot to wear," and he spoke to Eisner of talk of other installments that would have featured the Bookworm but noted, "There was only one segment. I don't know whether they changed their minds about the Bookworm or whether I was doing other things." He later appeared in the Planet of the Apes film "pentalogy", first as Cornelius, the chimpanzee scientist sympathetic to Charlton Heston's character of George Taylor and then as Caesar, Cornelius' son and the charismatic leader of the ape revolt that turned Earth into "the Planet of the Apes" in the first place, and subsequently as Galen in the short-lived Planet of the Apes live action television series.
• The character was voiced by Jeff Bergman in the film Batman vs. Two-Face.
  

Trivia

• The Bookworm was created by Hendrik "Rik" Vollaerts, who admitted to Joel Eisner in The Official Batman Batbook, "I had a hell of a hard time trying to sell (his intelligent book-reading villain) because the number of people who read books in Hollywood is rather limited."
• The Bookworm and all of his henchmen, including the Printer's Devil, wore eyeglasses at nearly all times (they were known to have removed these only before each of the two Batfights in which they engaged against the Bat-Duo).

Related

• 13 Appearances of Bookworm (Batman 1966 TV Series)
• 4 Images featuring Bookworm (Batman 1966 TV Series)
• Quotations by or about Bookworm (Batman 1966 TV Series)
• Character Gallery: Bookworm (Batman 1966 TV Series)

Footnotes

Batman Villain(s) This character, team or organization, has been primarily an enemy of the Batman, or the Batman Family as a whole. This template will categorize articles that include it into the category "Batman Villains."

Batman Villain(s) from the 1966 series This character, team or organization, was primarily an enemy of the Batman in either the 1966-1968 television show, related 1966 film, tie-in comic book series or the animated movies. This template will categorize articles that include it into the "Batman (1966 TV Series) Villains category."