


Art by Bob Kaneīill Finger and Bob Kane introduced the Scarecrow in the Fall of 1941 for World's Finest Comics #3 during the Golden Age of Comic Books, in which he only made two appearances. Henry Polic II, Jeffrey Combs, Dino Andrade, John Noble, Robert Englund, and others have provided the character's voice in media ranging from animation to video games.Ī full-page panel from World's Finest Comics #3 (Fall 1941), featuring the Scarecrow's debut. Thompson on the Fox television series Gotham, and Vincent Kartheiser on the HBO Max streaming series Titans in the third season. The Scarecrow has been adapted in various media incarnations, having been portrayed by Cillian Murphy in The Dark Knight Trilogy films, Charlie Tahan and David W. The character usually wears an outfit symbolic of his namesake with a stitched mask and burlap hat. As the self-proclaimed "Master of Fear", the Scarecrow's crimes do not stem from a common desire for wealth or power, but from a cruel pleasure in terrorizing innocents to further his sadistic experiments on the manipulation of fear. Abused and bullied in his youth, Crane develops an obsession with fear and uses a specially designed hallucinogenic drug–dubbed "fear toxin"–to exploit the phobias of the people of Gotham City and its protector, Batman.

In his comic book appearances, the Scarecrow is the alter ego of Jonathan Crane, a brilliant professor of psychology turned criminal mastermind. The Scarecrow is depicted as one of the most enduring enemies of the superhero Batman and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery. The character was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, and debuted in World's Finest Comics #3 in September 1941. The Scarecrow is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Expertise in psychology and biochemistry.
