Ozzie Cobblepot is a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne and petty criminal in Gotham City.
History
Ozzie grew up in the impoverished neighborhood Crime Alley, alongside his friends Bruce, Harvey, Eddie, Selina, and Waylon. He grew up to become a minor criminal and sometimes uses his contacts to help out his friends, such as getting Waylon a grey market exotic animal license.[1] Bruce ran with Ozzie for a while, but eventually seemed to turn his life around and went to college.[2]
Bruce occasionally uses Ozzie as a source of information on Gotham's criminal underworld to help him in his activities as Batman.[3]
After Bruce was almost killed by Black Mask, he revealed his secret identity to his friends and asked for their help stopping the Party Animals gang who were attacking the city. Ozzie was furious to learn that Bruce had kept such a secret from them, but he agreed to help stop the Party Animals. He flew Bruce out to the Party Animal's yacht in his single engine plane.[4]
Bruce succeeded in foiling the Party Animals, but then disappeared. His friends believed he was dead, however; a month later Bruce approached them at a memorial for Matches Malone, another Crime Alley kid they had grown up with. He told them that he had been investigating Ark M, a private prison being built on an island just off the coast of Gotham. He had asked Matches, a forger, to make him papers so he could sneak onto the work crews building the prison. Matches did so, but also snuck onto the crews himself, taking pictures and videos and discovering that the prison had inmates already despite still being built. He had delivered his findings and the phony papers to Bruce, and then dropped dead, killed by a mysterious biological weapon that made him sweat blood.
Bruce told them that he just wanted to tell them he would get the person who killed Matches and then tried to leave, but they stopped him and told him they needed to talk about Batman. Bruce refused and said he should have kept them out of it; however they each pointed out that he had used their skills and knowledge to help him even before he revealed his identity to them. Bruce left, saying they just needed to stay out of his way, but Waylon warned him that he would die if he continued on his current path.[2]
Powers and Abilities
Abilities
Paraphernalia
Transportation
- Plane
Notes
- Oswald Cobblepot was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, first appearing in Detective Comics #58. However, the Absolute Universe version of Oswald Cobblepot first appeared in Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta.
Related
- 8 Appearances of Oswald Cobblepot (Absolute Universe)
- 2 Images featuring Oswald Cobblepot (Absolute Universe)
- Quotations by or about Oswald Cobblepot (Absolute Universe)
- Character Gallery: Oswald Cobblepot (Absolute Universe)
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