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For example, when he discovered a rare book in a locked glass case, he glanced at the lock, shrugged, and then simply shattered the glass to snatch the book without a second thought.

Real bookworm series#

Like most of the Batman TV series master criminals, he avoids gratuitously killing or harming anyone - except when he has a chance to kill either Batman or Robin!Īrchly played by Roddy McDowell, The Bookworm was unique among the TV series supercriminals in his cheerful practicality. He plotted elaborate crimes based around quotes from literature and poetry and rare old books, such as the time he tried to kill Batman and Robin with a gigantic cookbook after finding a 16th-century recipe for bat soup. The man who would become The Bookworm was well educated, with a photographic memory and the ability to speed read at a superhuman rate.

In the Batman TV series, The Bookworm is a supercriminal obsessed with classic literature for example, he wore a tight leather suit designed to look like the leather coverings of rare old books and a hat with a reading light attached. The original Bookworm: in the Batman TV series and Batman '66 comic book Roddy McDowell as Bookworm. Still later, a comic book version of the original Bookworm appeared in the Batman '66 comic book mini-series. A quite different character also called Bookworm was introduced in a Huntress comic book, but he was soon forgotten, as was a Deathstroke the Terminator character called Bookworm.

The Bookworm was first seen in the Batman television series from the 1960s.