While at first glance, the Clock King seems like a very odd, cart-before-the-horse character to try to include in our timeline, the revisions made to the character have turned him into someone that will fill a very useful role in our new timeline.
#The clock king series#
While the classic ridiculous character still occasionally makes an appearance, the comics just as often reference the animated series version. The new design and motivations of the character were extremely well received and all at once the whole concept was updated. The show had already established just how staggeringly good it was at redesigning old characters in new and compelling ways, and with Clock King they were just showing off.
In the case of Clock King, this happened in an episode of Batman The Animated Series. As goofy as this sounds, the book and the idea were popular, and it increased visibility on these old characters enough that many of them have, in the years since, been rewritten or redesigned and actually become cool, useful characters.
Dematteis and Keith Giffen was notably written for laughs, and they created a group of forgotten and largely forgettable villains to form their own butt-of-the-joke team of bad guys. The character might have been forgotten completely but for the mid-80's invention of the Injustice Gang. One appearance attempted to give him a backstory, but only just barely. He appeared two more times in the next twenty years, all in back-up stories of World's Finest. He was, simply, a crook who liked clocks and themed his crimes around them. Clock King appeared for the first time in World's Finest Comics #111 in 1960, literally the last of seven stories.
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