Wednesday 4 September 2013

Batman: Who is Black Mask ?


Black Mask aka Roman Sionis is a very old enemy of Batman as well as Bruce Wayne from a his childhood. The first Black Mask was Roman Sionis, an enemy of Batman. He first appeared in Batman #386 (August 1985). The character was created by Doug Moench and Tom Mandrake

History of Young Roman Sionis: came from a rich family, his father a successful industrialist. His parents would drag him around to parties, and force him to be friends with the children of other wealthy Gotham elites like the young Bruce Wayne. His parents hated other people like the Waynes though, but put on almost social masks in public to seem like more charming people. Roman hated the masks his parents wore. He would later get involve with an secretary in his father company which will be opposed by his father, creating a massive pressure, he will end this by murdering  his parents in a  suspicious fire and  inherit the  Cosmetics Corporation after murdering. Roman quickly drove the company into the ground, by creating a cosmetic which end up as a skin disease which first miserably burns the skin and ending that person into death. The company directers had kicked him out and finally Wayne Industries buy it out. Driven mad by losing his legacy, he turned his hatred on Bruce Wayne. Donning a mask carved from his father's coffin, he began murdering Wayne employees with the same chemical he made for skin. In the ensuing battle with Batman, Sionis's mask became permanently burned into his face as a living death mask. Over time he would become one of Gotham City's most ruthless and sadistic crime lords, commanding the "False Facers," a masked army of henchmen. With each subsequent loss to Batman, his empire shrank and his sadism grew. 

Among his many crimes were the destruction of a community center on Gotham's East End, the painstaking murder of Catwoman's brother-in-law, and then makes maggie eat pieces of her husband's corpse and driving her sister Maggie insane.   






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