Penny Plunderer: Difference between revisions

Joe Coyne began his career selling newspapers, but he was soon caught stealing pennies. He now commits crimes which center around pennies.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.avclub.com/articles/rogues-gallery-runoff,1467/ |title=Rogues' Gallery Runoff |author=Keith Phipps |date=June 1, 2005}}</ref> In "The Penny Plunderers", he leaves [[Batman]] and [[Robin (character)|Robin]] in a [[Deathtrap (plot device)|deathtrap]] shaped like a giant penny, with a penny each as a token of their worth - just two cents. Batman turns the tables by using the coins to make a battery and signal for help.<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ij-xvNBcwJUC&pg=PA184 |title=The Batman Handbook |author1=Scott Beatty |author2=Chuck Dixon |author3=David Hahn }}</ref> The giant penny often shown in the Batcave is a trophy of [[Batman]]'s defeat of the Penny Plunderer.<ref>{{citation |title=Skeleton Keys: Teaching the Fiction of Narrative Truth |author=Douglas P. Felter |journal=The English Journal |volume=83 |number=2 |date=Feb 1994 |pages=43–47 |jstor=821153}}</ref>

Though he is a classic adversary of Batman, he has recently been [[Retroactive continuity|ret-conned]] out of Batman's [[rogues gallery#In fiction|rogue gallery]]. The giant penny has also been the focus of a ret-con and is now canonically known as an item that [[Two-Face]] attempted to use to crush [[Batman]]. The Penny Plunderer's last known whereabouts were at death row in [[Arkham Asylum]]. He wore a green suit and had black hair. He made only one appearance.

In ''Scarecrow/Two Face: Year One'', Penny Plunderer makes a cameo appearance. He is robbing a bank with the underground approval of the [[Penguin (comics)|Penguin]]. Again he has a green pin-striped suit. He is attacked by Two-Face, who is waging his own vigilante war. The Batman confronts them both. Two-Face destroys the supports on the classic giant penny, which is inside the bank being robbed. It crushes Penny Plunderer, killing him<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/The-Batman-Files-Matthew-Manning/dp/1449462146 "The Batman Files"]</ref> and almost killing [[Jim Gordon (character)|Jim Gordon]]. Batman stops the coin.<ref>"Two Face Year One" #2 (2007)</ref>