Batman/Superman: World's Finest #25 - "World's Vilest" (2024)
written by Mark Waid
art by Steve Pugh & Adriano Lucas
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Jonah Hex sketch by Darwyn Cooke
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Batman: The Animated Series - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles
Arkady Duvall
Born sometime in the mid-1800’s, Arkady Duvall was the son of Ra's al Ghul and an unnamed mother. As a young man, Duvall studied in Heidelberg where he excelled as a master fencer. He demonstrated an arrogance and poor temper that left his father believing him unfit to take leadership over the Society of Shadows. Instead, Duvall was sent to America to tend to Society business of less import.
Whilst in America, Duvall assaulted and possibly murdered a woman, earning a two hundred dollar bounty on his head. He fled to Devil's Hole, a small outpost in the American Southwest where his father had begun an operation to stymie the burgeoning railroad system. He was tracked by the bounty hunter known as Jonah Hex who sought to collect on the warrant.
In Devil's Hole, Ra's al Ghul had built ‘The Phoenix’ a heavily armed dirigible meant to destroy the freshly laid railroad tracks. Duvall was assigned to secure the airship. Hex attempted to apprehend Duvall leading to a tremendous battle that resulted in the crash and destruction of The Phoenix. Disappointed in his son’s failure, Ra's al Ghul fled leaving Duvall behind.
Hex hauled Duvall back to civilization where he was sentenced to life in prison. Exposure to The Lazarus Pit earlier in his life enabled Duvall to live an elongated lifespan and he was ultimately transferred to a nursing facility.
Ra's al Ghul had lost track of Duvall’s whereabouts and finally rediscovered him in the modern age. He sent his minions to collect the aged Duvall leading to an altercation with Batman and Robin. Upon learning of Duvall’s origins and considering that he had been reduced to a frail and demented shell of a man, Batman decided to allow Ra’s to take his son so that he might be better cared for in his final years.
The fantastic Malcolm McDowell provided the voice for Arkady Duvall with the cad appearing in the seventeenth episode of the second season of Batman: The Animated Series, ‘Showdown.’
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