HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. JONATHAN CRANE!-8/15

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The early Batman stories by Bob Kane and Bill Finger were pretty creepy…In World’s Finest #3, which arrived on newsstands on this day in 1941, they introduced Dr. Jonathan Crane, a psychologist who studied fear.

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We know him better as Scarecrow.  But who remembered that his criminal motivation was to get more books?

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