Harvey Kent (Earth-Two)

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Real Name

Harvey Kent

Current Alias

Two-Face

Aliases

Two-Face I

Identity

Public

Affiliation

Gotham Police and Batman Family of Earth-Two

Relatives

Gilda Kent (wife, deceased)

Universe

Earth-Two

Base Of Operations

Gotham City of Earth-Two

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Height

6' 0"

Weight

180 lbs (82 kg)

Eyes

Blue

Hair

, Brown (left), White (right)

Unusual Features

None

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Married

Occupation

Lawyer, District Attorney

Education

college and law school graduate

Origin

Origin

Originally one of the most dedicated and committed attorneys, 24 year old Harvey "Apollo" Kent was assigned to handle the murder case of mob boss Sal "Boss" Maroni,lost the case and decided to make an example of Kent and threw sulphuric acid in Kent's face, horribly scarring his left hand and the left half of his face. Unable to accept the loss of his own personal beauty, "Apollo" Kent sank into despair deciding to allow fate to determine if he was try to arise above his disfigurement or sink into it. Kent scarred one side of Maroni's two-headed coin and decided to let fate in the tosses of the dual headed coin decide whether he acted for good or evil in any situation.

Place of Birth

Unspecified locale on Earth-Two

Creators

Bob Kane, Bill Finger

First appearance

Last appearance

Detective Comics #66 (August 1942);

(as Two-Face I) Detective Comics #80

History

After a short period of time as a criminal mastermind Kent overcomes his temporary insanity after accidentally shooting his former fiancée, Gilda. ^[1] Kent surrenders himself to Batman and undergoes trial. Hearing of an experimental corrective "plastic" surgery that was developed by Dr. Ekhart, a brilliant plastic surgeon that could recover his skin coloring and structure Kent agreed to undergo the procedure. Kent's deformed face and hand was finally repaired through the efforts of Dr. Ekhart. The surgery was completely successful and Kent was able to mentally heal from his previous criminal attitude. Over a period of time, Kent was pardoned for his temporary insanity and allowed to resume his duties as Attorney District of Gotham City.

After being cured of his own temporary insanity, some years later Kent would plead with and fail to redeem the second criminal Two-Face of Earth-Two, former actor Paul Sloane who found his true calling as the criminal entity over his original failed identity. Kent would successfully prosecute the second Two-Face on several occasions after the second Two-Face would be arrested by Batman in his excessive criminal acts. Kent would eventually retire to family life marrying Gilda in his later years.

It is unknown if Kent survived into old age during the time of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. If he did, like all people of Earth-Two, Kent was killed and erased from ever existing during the Crisis on Infinite Earths and succeeded by his new Earth counterpart.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Kent had no known superhuman abilities

Abilities

Kent had no superhuman abilities but was a highly intelligent man capably of making and planning out elaborate schemes and tactics involving many criminal organizations

Strength level

Harvey Kent possessed the normal human strength of an average 6-foot, 180-pound man who engaged in regular physical exercise during his prime. His strength levels deceases as he got older.

Weaknesses

Kent had all the normal weaknesses of a human male

Paraphernalia

Equipment: Kent used scarred coin to help him make planning decisions even to the point of making a continuation of a criminal act in the middle of the execution of said criminal plan which would be successfully used against Kent. Kent's successor Sloane did not have that dependency on the coin only using it for whether the act was to be done or not at the beginning of a plot
Transportation: No exotic devices
Weapons: regular handguns and machine guns as an active criminal

Notes

While Kent was only Two-Face for a short period of time, he has been used as the primary background of most of the sucessive incarnations of the character, though it is usually Sloane's intentional insane devotion to continue being Two-Face that is used for most of the successive incarnations of the character.

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Discuss Harvey Kent (Earth-Two) on the forums
• Appearances of Harvey Kent (Earth-Two) (Chronological)
• Appearances of Harvey Kent (Earth-Two) (Alphabetical)
• Character Gallery: Harvey Kent (Earth-Two)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Harvey Kent (Earth-Two)
• Quotations by Harvey Kent (Earth-Two)

Links and References

• Two-Face at Wikipedia.org
  
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Footnotes

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