Humpty Dumpty (comics)

Humpty Dumpty is a DC Comics villain most commonly associated with Batman.

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caption=Humpty Dumpty on the cover of "Arkham Asylum: Living Hell" #3
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character_name=Humpty Dumpty
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publisher=DC Comics
debut="" #2 (2003)
creators=Dan Slott and Ryan Sook
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real_name=Humphry Dumpler
alliances=Secret Society of Super Villains
aliases=The Hobby Robber
powers=Knack for piecing together broken or disassembled items|

Fictional character history

Humpty Dumpty, the Hobby Robber is a DC Comics character who premiered in "Superboy" #6 (January/February 1950).

Another villain by the name of Humpty Dumpty debuted in the 2003 series "". As represented in the latter series; Humphry Dumpler is a hulking and obese child like man with an egg shaped head (the source of his alias) who speaks in rythme and is obsessed with repairing and putting back together that which he considers to be broken. This factors into his crimes where Humpty would sneak out late at night to disassemble and reassemble mechanical devices which had upset him in some way. As his sole knowledge about their workings came from books borrowed from the public library, the "fixed" devices caused numerous accidents.

Humpty's final crime was to adjust the gears in a clock tower. This caused one of its hands to fly off and a chain reaction in which dozens of enormous signage objects crashed to the streets and killed people (which inspired a law banning such devices.). When Batgirl tried to apprehend him for this, he fell off the rooftop. She saved him - but dislocated her arms in the process. Humpty, being far from aggressive, promptly slipped her arms back into her sockets and surrendered himself to her. Revealing that she had tracked him by his overdue library withdrawals, her sole question was why he had borrowed a book on human anatomy. Humpty placidly took her to his home to reveal he had dissected his abusive grandmother and sewn her back together with bootlace in an ill-thought attempt to "fix" her. It was likely this crime resulted in him being sentenced to the Arkham Asylum for the insane.

He was a model prisoner at Arkham Asylum where he occasionally was recruited by Dr. Jeremiah Arkham to assist in such projects such as reassembling a broken mirror or repairing Scarface for the Ventriloquist. There he befriends Warren White, and saves his life from Death Rattle (another Living Hell original) and Two Face before Warren became Great White Shark. He later joined Luthor's Society, as shown in the pages of "Villains United".