He was then informed that the man in question was Moxon's nephew, who needed a bullet removed from his shoulder following a failed armed robbery. Batman's origin story is first established in a sequence of panels in Detective Comics #33 (November 1939) that is later reproduced in the comic book Batman #1 (Spring 1940), but the mugger is not given a name until Batman #47 (June–July 1948). On Earth 2 it was an assassination. While in prison, Lew Moxon hired Joe Chill to dispose of Thomas Wayne. What if Joe Chill was the one in the mask and pulling the trigger? During the events of Batman: Year Two, Joe Chill is hired out by a number of criminal families in Gotham to target the lethal vigilante, the Reaper. Chill's paranoia is so severe that he begins to see Bruce's face everywhere around him, even on other people. During the Golden Age of Comic Books, Lew Moxon was established as the man who hired Joe Chill to kill Bruce Wayne's parents. When he returns, Batman reveals to Jeremy that he found out that the other crime boss Chill was trying to defeat was Jeremy, who was groomed by Moxon to be a mobster like him and that his innocent, charming image was just an illusion. Max is killed when a stack of slot machines falls onto him while he is attacking Batman. It is implied that he uses his gun to commit suicide. Max Chill is suspected of having murdered Boston Brand (AKA Deadman), though the suspicion proves erroneous as Boston Brand was actually killed by Hook. Joe would also be hired by a couple of Falcone's associates, include Hamilton Hill and possibly Thomas Wayne. Though Terry lashed out at Jake after discovering Jake killed his father, he ultimately respected Jake as a hero and regretted that he died the way he did. When he learns of this, Batman finds a lead on the identity of the man who killed his parents. He is then released on bail with his only official crime being a minor charge for assault. In Batman's origin story, Joe Chill is the Gotham City mugger who murders young Bruce Wayne's parents, Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne. In 2009's Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? [8], In the 2008 Grant Morrison story "Joe Chill in Hell" (featured in Batman #673), Chill is reinterpreted as a mid-level crime boss who builds the Land, Sea, and Air Transport company from the ground up (most likely through illegal means). Joe Chill first appears in Detective Comics #33 and was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. No fun when they're into it". Joe Chill in Detective Comics #577 (August 1987); art by Todd McFarlane. Many years later, when he is eighteen years old, he manages to find him, and holds him at gunpoint asking him who hired him. Chill's grandnephew eventually has a child of his own, Jake. After the death of the Criminal Joker and the surrender of the Comedian Joker who was revealed to be the original Joker, Bruce Wayne visits Joe Chill on his death bed as Bruce shakes his hand. In the 1987 storyline Batman: Year Two, Chill played a key role. He was probably hired to do the hit but refused to kill Bruce's parents, but his partner Joe Chill took the gun and ski mask out of Malone's hands and shot the Waynes. Like the earlier appearances, he was the one who hired Joe Chill to kill Thomas Wayne. Before he leaves, Batman kills Jeremy by sucking his blood, leaving his body to sit in front of the fireplace. Gregg Hurwitz (w), David Finch (a). Batman later tracks down Angela's murderer, who turns out to be Joe Chill, who is now a vampire after Batman killed him. [4], Ultimately, Batman discovers that Thomas, Martha, and (a very young) Bruce Wayne had attended a costume party (to which Dr. Wayne wore a Zorro costume) which was also attended by Moxon. Once his henchmen learn that Chill's actions led to the hated Batman's existence, however, they turn on their boss and gun him down before suddenly realizing how priceless his knowledge of Batman's true identity is. [22], On the alternate world of Earth-Two as part of The New 52, Joe Chill is a hired assassin who shoots Thomas and Martha Wayne. Batman confronts him with the knowledge that Chill killed Thomas and Martha Wayne. For several years no mention is made of Moxon's role regards the origin of Batman on Earth One - that is until the Len Wein written mini-series, The Untold Legend of the Batman (published in 1980) re-introduced the Lew Moxon story, exactly as it was told in 1956. Joe Chill was a hitman who worked for Carmine Falcone and his associates. I am Bruce Wayne!!" During a major confrontation, the crime bosses are all killed in a shootout at a warehouse, in which the Reaper seemingly also perishes. During the post-Zero Hour era, while Lew Moxon does appear in several issues, Joe Chill does not. He vows to kill Chill afterwards. Soon after, he is arrested by the Gotham City Police Department. While about to be mugged by street punks, Bruce initially fantasizesthat the two amateur criminals are both Joe Chill, so he can take out his rage on them. Ultimately, he concludes that it does not. Chill is convinced that Bruce Wayne, now one of the most powerful men on the planet, is biding his time to exact revenge. However, there was an early version of the story in which Joe Chill was actually hired by a mob boss named Lew Moxon. I am Bruce Wayne !!" [6], Lew Moxon (alongside his current bodyguard Hellhound) is later killed by his former protector Zeiss at a meeting of Gotham's crime bosses (arranged by Spoiler). In a story by Ty Templeton entitled "Fear Itself", Chill is shown to have spent his whole life as a career criminal since the night he murdered Bruce's parents. He then kills Martha when she screams for help (in later versions up to the 1970s, Martha dies from a heart attack brought on from the shock of seeing her husband murdered). He blames his crimes, including murdering the Waynes, on class warfare that forced him to do things he wouldn't have otherwise. [10], In 2016, DC Comics implemented another relaunch of its books called "DC Rebirth", which restored its continuity to a form much as it was prior to "The New 52". Lew Moxon is then arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison for armed robbery. Chill's status has changed many times across the years: He has been a mugger, a hit man hired by a mob boss sick of the Waynes ' … Batman is left at the end of the story wondering who the mysterious man was and why he would rather die than accept his help.[19]. When Phantom Stranger brings Batman to the past where he encounters his parents at a masquerade ball, he and Thomas Wayne fend off Lew Moxon's thugs who crashed the masquerade ball to rob it. When he demands Martha's necklace, Thomas moves to protect his wife and Chill panics and shoots him. Instead, he worked as an Intergang contact before being killed by Mr. [4] Perhaps because they were both domestic servants, Alfred, the adult Bruce's butler, was secretly aware of Mrs. Chilton's connection, but he kept that information from Bruce. Batman nearly catches Chill, who pushes him away in terror and falls to his death. In Frank Miller's 1986 limited series Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Bruce Wayne finally resolves his feelings towards Chill (who is not named). "[12] Batman, Batgirl, and Jason Todd/Red Hood arrive at the theater where Joe Chill is being held in as a film plays with Joe confessing that he killed the Waynes because he thought they were the kind of rich people who didn't care about the city and it was only after seeing a young Bruce Wayne that he realized his mistake. [17] Afterwards, Thomas puts Chill's gun in a trophy display in the Batcave.[16]. Chill has a large role in the episode "Chill of the Night" in which Batman finally finds out that Chill is his parents killer. [20] Jake takes the name Vigilante, modified the uniform he got from his former employer as his costume, and works with Batman to stop a riot led by the Jokerz. One night, a police officer wants to bring the elder Wayne in for questioning. Batman though later on kills Chill with an axe. Batman confronts him and reveals his s… In the 2020 miniseries Batman: Three Jokers, a news report about the massacre of the final members of the Moxon Crime Family stated that they were accused of hiring Joe Chill to kill Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne only for them to be exonerated when Joe Chill confessed that he acted alone. He's into it. Joe Chill is featured in many Elseworld titles, including Superman: Speeding Bullets, Citizen Wayne, Batman: In Darkest Knight, Batman: Holy Terror, Batman of Arkham, JLA: Destiny, and Dark Knight Dynasty. '(Batman #47) and expanded on it further.Here, Thomas Wayne is shot, but in this account, Martha Wayne has a heart attack and dies. Considering the issue consists of Bruce's flashbacks and hallucinations from an experiment he undergoes during his early career, however, it is left ambiguous whether the events of the story are real.[9]. voiced by Richard Moll. Moxon vowed revenge, and when he was released, he hired Joe Chill in order to distance himself from the crime, and the rest is history. Several Gotham City crime bosses pool their resources to deal with a lethal vigilante called the Reaper, and Chill, an experienced button man, is hired to take him out. During the Silver and Bronze Age of Comic Books, the Lew Moxon story remained canonical for tales set on Earth-Two. Batman, who is observing the event as well as Catwoman, note that Joe Chill should be dead. "Chill in the Air", "Voice Of Joe Chill - Batman | Behind The Voice Actors", "Diversity, History and Batman: Highlights From Michael Uslan's Reddit AMA", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Chill&oldid=1011057821, Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, ← Julie Madison, the Batarang and the Batgyro was debuted by Gardner Fox, Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff. An 18-year-old Bruce Wayne tracks Chill down and holds him at gunpoint, demanding to know who hired him to kill his parents. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lew_Moxon&oldid=1011055255, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 March 2021, at 19:42. However, just as in previous continuities, Chill makes no reference to Lew Moxon before his demise. Batman learned that Chill was not a robber, but actually a hitman who had murdered the Wayne's on orders from a Mafia boss named Lew Moxon. Chill was often hired for small time jobs, and he would often murder people that either tried to double-cross Falcone or were threats to the organization. [5], At the time when Bruce Wayne was accused of murder, Nightwing goes to stakeout Lew Moxon's house where he overhears him and Mallory arguing about the news revolving around Bruce Wayne. While Martha was indeed killed, Thomas, with help from Dr. Leslie Thompkins, survived and was declared clinically dead. He locates Chill and attempts to inject him with a drug, but instead beats him to death in a vengeful fury. He then tells Jeremy that he doesn't want to be cured anymore. Joe Chill was the man who shot Batman's parents. Joe Chill was a criminal who was best known for themurder of Thomas and Martha Wayne in front of their son, Bruce. He was hired by Moxon to assassinate the Waynes, but was instructed to make it appear as a random mugging. Joe Chill in the DC Extended Universe is the third live action incarnation of the character, following incarnations played by Clyde Gatell and Richard Brake. It's just one of continuities established. View this post on Instagram Bruce realizes that Chill had not killed his parents for killing's sake, as the two punk… On seeing Dr. Wayne's costume, Moxon suddenly remembers what he had done. The murder traumatizes Bruce, inspiring his vow to avenge their deaths by fighting crime as the vigilante Batman.[2]. Batman also deduced that was why he himself was left unharmed by Chill: so he would unwittingly support Moxon's alibi that he had nothing to do with a robbery that was really a planned murder. In a story by Ty Templeton , entitled "Fear Itself", Chill is shown to have spent his whole life as a career criminal since the night he murdered Bruce's parents. Chill finally realizes who Batman is and fears what his fellow gangsters might do if they found out he was responsible for creating him. In this continuity, he was hired by Mayor Hamilton Hill to assassinate Thomas and Martha Wayne. Batman ends up forced to work with Chill, and Bruce promises himself he'll kill Chill after stopping the Reaper -- … On the alternate world of Earth-Two, Joe Chill is a hired assassin who shoots Thomas and Martha Wayne. Chill tracks the detective to his apartment and attempts to silence him, but Batman intervenes, unaware of who Chill is. Batman's origin story was first established in a sequence of panels in Detective Comics #33 (November 1939) and later reproduced in the publication Batman #1 (Spring 1940). Berretti tells him Moxon was not involved. Also as an added treat, Lew Moxon, the crime lord who hired Joe Chill, is voiced by Richard Moll, the voice of Harvey "Two-Face" Dent in The Animated Series. When he learns of this, Batman finds a lead on the identity of the man who killed his parents. Like in the majority of Batman continuity, Chill is a small time criminal who, out of desperation because of extreme poverty (At the time, Gotham City was in the middle of an economic depression that was caused by the League … The Criminal Joker plans to dump Joe Chill in a mixture of the Lazarus Pit and Joker Venom in hopes of making him the ultimate Joker, but Joe Chill is saved by Batman who forgives him. At the party, Wayne discovers that Moxon is the target of professional assassin Deadshot. When Bruce confronts Zeiss as Batman, Zeiss reveals that the murder of Samuels was carried out under the order of Moxon himself, as retaliation for something that Thomas Wayne had done to him years ago. Batman determines that Moxon's blimp business must be a cover for illegal activities and continues to trail the gangster. Though no one discovers his involvement with McGinnis' murder, Jake Chill is wracked with guilt and decides to become a vigilante to redeem his family's sins. Joe Chill is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman.Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the character first appeared in Detective Comics #33 (November 1939).. Chill reasons that he has no reason to fulfill his contract, but Batman takes him to "Crime Alley", the scene of his parents' murder. Afterwards, a young Bruce glares at Chill, with accusing eyes, prompting the murderer to flee. Len Wein and John Byrne add a one-panel coda in their retelling of this scene in the first issue of The Untold Legend of the Batman. Following their deaths, he spent months as a young boy investigating some possible connection to the Court of Owls.A young Bruce Wayne looks for the man who killed the Waynes, but does not succeed. Lex also was the one who hired Joe Chill to kill the entire Wayne family, including Bruce Wayne who was only a child at the time. Following the timeline reboot in Flashpoint, Bruce Wayne still mentions Joe Chill having murdered his parents,but was never caught. Lew Moxon's involvement in the killing of the Wayne is, therefore, left to the reader's imagination. Joe Chill peacefully dies and Bruce Wayne finally having closure over his parent's killer. Moxon had a vendetta against Dr. Wayne after they met at … No fun when they're into it". It is suggested that Moxon specifically ordered Joe Chill to kill the Waynes but keep young Bruce alive, thus providing a convincing alibi for the criminal and allowing him to make the hit look like a failed robbery. On the alternate world of Earth-Two, Joe Chill is a hired assassin who shoots Thomas and Martha Wayne. For her part, Mrs. Chilton knows Bruce is secretly Batman and is proud of him. The Great-Grand Nephew of Joe Chill, Jake Chill was hired by Derek Powers to murder Warren McGinnis, and cover it up to make it look like the Jokerz committed the crime. Chill is later killed when Thomas Wayne (who had survived the shooting) crushes his skull in retaliation for Martha's death.[23]. [18], Joe Chill appears in The Batman Adventures #17, which is set in the continuity of Batman: The Animated Series and its DCAU spinoffs. In 2011, "The New 52" rebooted the DC Comics' primary continuity. It was mentioned in the news that the last members of the dwindling Moxon Crime Family were killed at their restaurant where an eyewitness states that Joker was responsible. It was also mentioned that Joe Chill is serving a life sentence at Blackgate Penitentiary. As an adult, Joe Chill became a low-rent thug working for a crime boss named Lew Moxon. To accomplish that goal, the superheroes find and question that world's version of Moxon about the whereabouts of Chill. When Batman corners them, Moxon offers him money to come work for him, but Batman refuses and then kills Moxon by sucking his blood. Chill is later killed when Thomas Wayne (who had survived the shooting) crushes his skull in retaliation for Martha's death. Lew Moxon survives Deadshot's assassination attempts (though he is now confined to a wheelchair), but fires Zeiss for his failure. In many ways "Chill of the Night" felt more like an episode of Batman: The Animated Series than an episode of Brave and the Bold, ... the man who hired Joe Chill … In Batman Beyond Unlimited set in the DC Animated Universe, Chill is revealed to have a brother. The canonical presence of the character is reinforced in the feature story in Detective Comics #500, "To Kill a Legend" when Batman and Robin are sent to a parallel Earth to avert the murder of that version of the Waynes. At the party, Angelo Berretti, an "employee" of Moxon's business, told Dr. Wayne that a man's life was in danger. [14], In the comics featuring the Crime Syndicate of America, it is revealed that on the Syndicate's alternate Earth, Joe Chill was a friend of Dr. Thomas Wayne. 1 History 2 Paraphernalia 2.1 Weapons 3 Related 3.1 Footnotes Joe Chill was a mugger and common criminal of the small time variety, who accidentally killed Thomas and Martha Wayne after a failed robbery in Crime Alley. Chill responds that he just wanted Martha Wayne's pearls so he could buy alcohol and that he didn't even know who the Waynes were until the next day. Terrified, Chill flees and seeks protection from his henchmen. In that issue, Batman discovers that Joe Chill, the small-time crime boss he is investigating, is none other than the man who killed his parents. As he is taken away, he swears revenge on Thomas Wayne convinced that he's to blame for his downfall. Freeze. As he was often away on business, Mrs. Chilton played the primary parental role in the boy's life. While in prison, Moxon hired Joe Chill to dispose of Thomas Wayne. It was also mentioned that the Moxon Crime Family were accused of orchestrating the deaths of Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne only to be exonerated when Joe Chill confessed that he worked alone.[8]. His paranoia goes into overdrive when he discovers that the retired police detective who originally worked on the Wayne case has finally discovered evidence that he was the killer. PICTURED: Joe Biden smiling alongside Kazak businessman who 'hired Hunter to help broker US investments when he was VP' - yet still Joe maintains he NEVER discussed his son's business dealings In Batman #208 (Jan./Feb. Jeremy then reveals that he knew that he killed his father and then offers that they work together. Joe Chill is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman. In Grant Morrison's Batman #673, Batman learns Chill acted on his own and that his parents' deaths were not ordered by someone else. [7], In 2006, Infinite Crisis #6 reestablished that Chill was responsible for shooting Thomas and Martha Wayne, and that he was later arrested on that same night for their murder. There he confronts Chill and reveals his identity. [7], In the pages of Batman: Three Jokers, Lew Moxon was mentioned to have owned a restaurant called Lew's Restaurant. In The Brave and the Bold #79 (Sep. 1968), Joe Chill is revealed to have a brother named Max who is also a criminal. Chill responds that he didn't know who they were u… When he refuses, the police officer suddenly opens fire. It was Bruce Wayne!"[3]. Several Gotham City crime bosses pool their resources to deal with a vigilante called the Reaper, and Chill is hired to take him out. Chill runs away when Bruce begins crying and calling for help — but not before the boy memorizes his features. The story begins with Chill being released from prison after finishing a sentence for an unrelated crime, and it is apparent that he has been living in fear since that fateful night. While the comic itself would present different reasons for this crime over the decades - from a simple mugging gone wrong to Chill being hired by the mob to perform the hit - the results were the same. See, Joe Chill appears briefly in the 2016 film, This page was last edited on 8 March 2021, at 19:59. In the continuity, Jake Chill is a former security guard at Wayne-Powers, working under Derek Powers' "Quiet Squad". In that issue, Batman discovers that Joe Chill, the small-time crime boss he is investigating, is none other than the man who killed his parents. [15], In the alternate universe of Flashpoint, Joe Chill shoots and kills the young Bruce Wayne,[16] and Thomas Wayne seeks to kill him to avenge his son. For protection, Moxon has employed the ruthless Philo Zeiss as his bodyguard.[3]. Not much is known about Chill except that he is, in most versions of Batman, a petty mugger who kills Bruce's parents Thomas and Martha while trying to take their money and jewelry. Batman avenges her death by killing Chill with an axe. Chill is also secretly commissioned to kill Batman after the Reaper has been disposed of. They leave him alone, however, after realizing he would have fought them : "Look at him. When Angela is murdered, Jeremy reveals that the other crime lords believe that Moxon had evidence against them and they also believe that he knows where they are. As an adult, Bruce continues to visit the elderly woman, whom he still calls "Mom Chilton", unaware of her connection with Joe and Max Chill. During an earlier story, Zeiss killed Bruce's friend, Jeremy Samuels. "All he wanted was money", he thinks to himself. He is most famous for hiring Joe Chill to murder young Bruce Wayne's parents in early versions of Batman's origin story, thus making him indirectly responsible for Batman's existence. In this version, he admits to some guilt for leaving Bruce an orphan as the hit was only to be for Thomas Wayne and not his wife Martha. He wonders if there's a possibility that he never actually caught or confronted his parents' killer. Once he returns to his own timeline, Bruce Wayne is plagued with doubt. In this story, Batman has visited and frightened Chill every night for a month. In the 1987 storyline Batman: Year Two, Chill played a key role. Chill is later killed when Thomas Wayne (who had survived the shooting) crushes his skull in retaliation for Martha's death. While about to be mugged by street punks, Bruce initially fantasizes that the two amateur criminals are both Joe Chill, so he can take out his rage on them. Moxon had not yet hired Chill to perform the murder and with the attention of this bizarre figure, accelerated his plan with a different killer to first murder Chill and then the Waynes. Dr. Wayne performed the operation, but refused to take any money for his services, and attacked Moxon. Lew Moxon first appeared in Detective Comics #235 and was created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff. Joe Chill is a fictional character in the DC Comics Batman series. They've gone back and forth between it being a hit or a mugging gone bad. Jeremy then agrees to help Kirk find a cure for his condition. Batman has Chill at gunpoint, but the Reaper then appears and guns Chill down. Years later, Batman questions Berretti as to whether his former boss had been involved in the murder of the Waynes (which occurred a few months after the costume party). After the events of "Infinite Crisis", Joe Chill is again known to be responsible for the murder of the Waynes, and he was arrested for the crime on that same night. In the 1991 sequel to "Year Two", Batman: Full Circle, Chill's son Joe Chill, Jr. assumes the identity of the Reaper in order to seek revenge for his father's death. Bruce realizes that Chill had not killed his parents for killing's sake, as the two punks wanted to do to him, and thus was not truly evil. Ten years later, Moxon's first order of business after getting released is to inform Thomas that he will get someone else to exact that revenge. When Batman corners them during a meeting with the other crimelords, he kills Lew Moxon and drinks Joe Chill's blood. After sparing Chill's life, Bruce Wayne leaves Gotham City and begins training to fight crime, vowing that he will make sure what Chill did never happens to anyone else. Chill comes out of an alleyway to discover the dead bodies and the Waynes' younger son Thomas Wayne Jr., leaves with him, blaming his father for his mother and brother's deaths, and seeing Chill as the only father figure he has left.
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