Jack Crane (Earth-One)

Savage Skull
Mainstream Universe‎, 1950s-1986
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Real Name	Jack Crane
Main Alias	Savage Skull
Affiliation	Formerly Gotham City Police Department
Base Of Operations	Gotham City
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Police Officer
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Brown
Origin
Universe	Earth-One
Creators	Doug Moench · Don Newton
First Appearance	Batman #360 (June, 1983)
Last Appearance	Detective Comics #528 (July, 1983)

Savage Skull was an enemy of Batman.

History

Jack Crane was a member of the Gotham City Police Department until he became involved in an accident which cost an innocent youngster the life. Crane claims he was tracking an arsonist until he found a burning building. While allegedly struggling with a young criminal, Crane shot him in the back and a large part of the building came on top of him. Crane survived, but his face was horrendously scarred. In later investigations, internal affairs of the GCPD couldn't find evidence of the arsonist and they removed Crane from the force due to use of excessive force.

For years, Crane held a grudge against the members of the board who removed him and his former partners. Crane eventually adopted the identity of Savage Skull and started killing his former partners. His final target was Commissioner Gordon, but he was stopped by Batman during his first attempt to murder Gordon.

Crane was presumed dead and Gordon closed the case, but a few weeks later, Harvey Bullock reopened the case and located Crane, who was a past friend during their training days at the GCPD. Crane attacked Bullock, who was saved by Gordon and in turn, they were both saved by Batman, who defeated Savage Skull. Bullock then proceeded to arrest the killer and took the entire credit for the capture.

Powers and Abilities

Weaknesses

• Monstrous Appearance
  

Paraphernalia

Weapons

• Knives

Notes

• This version of Savage Skull, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022-2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.

Related

• 3 Appearances of Jack Crane (Earth-One)
• 1 Images featuring Jack Crane (Earth-One)
• Quotations by or about Jack Crane (Earth-One)
• Character Gallery: Jack Crane (Earth-One)

Footnotes

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