10 Comic Book Supervillains Improved Through Retcon

Julian Day went from one of Batman’s sillier villains to one of his more odd ones. Day had always been interested in calendars and dates. He braced his inventions and crimes around days of the week, holidays, or special occurrences of that day. He would often dress in costumes specific to the day or crime but he also had a costume that had a cape with calendar pages cascading off the shoulders. He was brilliant but easily defeated.

In Batman: The Long Halloween, Calendar Man was reimagined as an emotionless serial killer who still used holidays to commit his crimes. Day was a resident at Arkham Asylum and Batman and Commissioner Gordon questioned Day on what he knew about the new Holiday killer. Day offered up chilling and cryptic clues to the Dark Knight that may have been more confusing than helpful.

One new wrinkle to the life of Calendar Man after the DC Rebirth is that Day lives and dies with the seasons. He is reborn every spring but keeps his memories and ages throughout the year to finally die at Winter’s end. He will crawl out of the husk of his own corpse a new man on the first day of Spring.