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Thomas Doyle (Earth-One)

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The Printer's Devil was an enemy of Green Arrow.

Thomas Doyle was a sportswriter working for the Daily Star. When the Daily Star was threatened with a buyout by media giant Morris Burdick, Doyle was outraged and planned to save his newspaper by dressing in a red and black costume with a blue cape, complete with a goat's head mask and large red eyes while armed with a trident that fired flame darts. In this guise, Doyle called himself the Printer's Devil. Doyle began attacking the Star in the hopes that Burdick would think twice about buying a media outlet under siege. Doyle's attacks were put to a stop by Green Arrow and he was subsequently sent to jail; however, Doyle's plan apparently worked as Burdick abandoned his plans to buy the Star.[1]

A few months later, Doyle (out on bail) came face to face with another individual who took up his identity as the Printer's Devil. This successor forced Doyle to provide him with a spare costume and weapon, which he used to initiate an attack at the Star City World's Fair.[2]


Weapons

  • Trident


  • This version of Printer's Devil, 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.
  • A printer's devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of ink and fetching type.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Detective Comics #539–540
  2. ↑ Detective Comics #543
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