Now I'll make crime a big production! I'll get a supporting cast -- and Two-Face shall be star of his crime company! Ha! Ha! 
- — Two-Face src
Harvey Apollo was an actor who became the Two-Face of Earth-Forty after one side of his face was horribly scarred by the criminal Lucky Sheldon.
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Originally an actor who was cast as a bit player in several theater productions, Harvey Apollo became a star witness in the case against murderer Lucky Sheldon. During the trial at the courthouse, however, Sheldon suddenly threw acid in Apollo's face, leading to severe scarring on the left half of his face. Always having been vain about his looks, Apollo was shocked by his new appearance and now began to see himself as a freak. Despaired and shunned by society, Harvey scarred one side of Lucky Sheldon's two-headed silver dollar and decided to let a flip of fate determine if he should wait for plastic surgery or rather turn to a life of crime. The coin landed on the scarred side, causing Apollo to assume the identity of the criminal Two-Face. From now on, he would decide everything based on the flip of his coin, leading to a massive crime spree in Gotham City.
At the Gotham City Park, Apollo eventually attempted to rob a couple in a horse carriage, but was interrupted by Batman and Robin. Two-Face wanted to let his coin decide Batman's fate, but when he flipped the silver dollar, it hit a crack on the roadway and landed on its edge. Before he could take any further action, Harvey was shot by a policeman patrolling the park area. However, Harvey actually survived the attack because the bullet hit the coin in his vest pocket instead of his heart. He managed to knock out Batman and the policeman before he escaped from the park. Two-Face later tried and failed to kill Batman and Robin with cyanide gas capsules when they found his two-master at the Gotham Harbor. The Ajax Drive-In Theater later became the scene of the final confrontation between Batman and Two-Face. Apollo and his gang started to rob the moviegoers, but their plans were thwarted by Batman and Robin when they arrived at the theater shortly after. Batman proceeded to chase Two-Face to the top of the Drive-In's giant theater screen, where Apollo's lucky silver dollar suddenly dropped from his suit pocket. Two-Face then accidentally stepped on it and slid off the screen and into the nearby wires, inadvertently hanging himself in the process.[1]
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- This incarnation of Two-Face has only appeared in the story "Half Man—Half Monster" that was originally published from June 23 to August 18, 1946 as #138—146 of the Batman and Robin Sunday newspaper comic strip distributed by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. It was later reprinted by DC in Limited Collectors' Edition #C-37 (1975) and by DC and Kitchen Sink Press in Batman: The Sunday Classics 1943–1946 (1991).
- Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Compendium later retroactively established that this story along with all the other Batman and Robin comic strips by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate took place on Earth-Forty, a reconciliation attempt meant to explain inconsistent and non-canon events of Earth-Two.
- The origin story of Two-Face in "Half Man—Half Monster" is partially based on Harvey "Apollo" Kent's origin in "The Crimes of Two-Face" from Detective Comics #66 (1942). Some panels and lines from Kent's debut issue were even directly recycled for the sunday newspaper comic strip. The name "Apollo" was previously also used as Harvey Kent's nickname.
- The fight between Batman and Two-Face on top of the horse carriage is based on the cover of Detective Comics #80.
- The idea to portray Two-Face as an actor was later reused for the Paul Sloane incarnation introduced in Batman #68.
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- 3 Appearances of Harvey Apollo (Earth-Forty)
- 1 Images featuring Harvey Apollo (Earth-Forty)
- 1 Quotations by or about Harvey Apollo (Earth-Forty)
- Character Gallery: Harvey Apollo (Earth-Forty)
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