Councilman Franklin Gresham

A creature of Gotham's corridors of power, Councilman Franklin Gresham stepped onto the Bronze Age DC stage in 1978, brought to life by the sharp creative pairing of Paul Levitz and Joe Staton in the pages of The Batman Family. With only a handful of catalog appearances, he's the kind of figure who haunts the edges of the story — the sort of morally ambiguous civic official that made Bronze Age Gotham feel like a living, breathing city full of secrets. He shares his pages with Helena Wayne and The Huntress, which tells you the stakes in his corner of the DC universe are anything but small.