10 Things DC Comics Want You To Forget About Two-Face

2. The Four Other Two-Faces (Ten-Face?)

The biggest skeleton in Harvey Dent's closet might be that he isn't the only person to have been Two-Face. In fact he wasn't even the first, since when he debuted in 1942 - with the DA background, acid attack and all - he was named Harvey Kent, who was later retconned to be both Harvey Dent and also a separate character called Harvey Kent...? Yeah, we're not sure about that one either, but it probably doesn't count any more so we can just forget about that. Anyway, this original Two-Face was given a happy ending to his story after just three appearances as he was given surgery to return his face to normal, and testimony given by Batman himself was enough for Gotham City to absolve him of all crimes committed under his supervillain guise. A couple of years later, however, DC realised they kinda liked the character. Instead of subjecting Dent/Kent to another fall from grace, however, they made the new Two-Face an actor also happened to fall prey to an attack whilst in the witness stand. Harvey Apollo was driven to madness by his disfigurement, and so took on a life of crime. That is until the writers behind Batman totally forgot about him and, in 1948, introduced yet another Two-Face. This time he turned out to be Harvey Dent's butler in disguise, trying to convince the world his erstwhile employer had returned to a life of crime. Of course Batman, world's greatest detective, soon figured out his ploy and cleared Dent's name. In 1951 the character turned up yet again. This time it was another actor, Paul Sloane, who was supposed to play Two-Face in a movie fictionalising the villain's activities. Except the acid in the courtroom scene was real, because the prop master was jealous of the actor's good looks. Less than a year later another actor took the part, hoping to frame Dent again, to no avail. By Detective Comics #81, Harvey Dent became Two-Face again, and we all tried to move on from these interlopers for the sake of our own sanity.