Two-Face (Harvey Dent)

by MajorHoy Fri Aug 21, 2020 1:47 am

First appearance: Detective Comics #66 (August 1942)

NOTE: In his early appearances, Two-Face was Harvey Kent, not "Dent".
As mentioned in a different thread,

MajorHoy wrote:
tony ingram wrote: . . . Did Two-Face get two entries? As I recall, Earth Two Two-Face was called Harvey Kent, wasn't he?
I believe that was the initial name used, but it was soon after altered to Dent.
(A Wikipedia article says the name change was to avoid confusion with Clark Kent, but I also thought I remember hearing years ago there was something involving the Batman newspaper comic strip involved with the differences in name?)

I have since also looked in The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Volume 1: Batman by Michael L. Fleisher (:copyright: 1976) where it says

From December 1948 - January 1949 onward, due to what can only be regarded as a chronicler's error, the texts refer to Harvey Kent as Harvey Dent (BM No. 50/2: "The Return of Two-Face!"; and others).

From Detective Comics #66,

And from his single Who's Who entry in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. XXIV (February 1987),

by **tony ingram** Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:22 am

The DC Database Wiki has a separate entry for Harvey Kent, who it describes as the Two-Face of Earth Two...

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Harvey_Kent_(Earth-Two)

by MajorHoy Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:41 pm

tony ingram wrote:The DC Database Wiki has a separate entry for Harvey Kent, who it describes as the Two-Face of Earth Two...

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Harvey_Kent_(Earth-Two)

But isn't that fan-generated, not official DC Comics?

(And if the comic books switched from "Kent" to "Dent" in late 1948, that would mean it was still during the "Golden Age" and would technically still have applied to an Earth-2 version.)

by **tony ingram** Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:25 pm

MajorHoy wrote:
tony ingram wrote:The DC Database Wiki has a separate entry for Harvey Kent, who it describes as the Two-Face of Earth Two...

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Harvey_Kent_(Earth-Two)
But isn't that fan-generated, not official DC Comics?

(And if the comic books switched from "Kent" to "Dent" in late 1948, that would mean it was still during the "Golden Age" and would technically still have applied to an Earth-2 version.)

Well, not necessarily. The Daily Planet actually first appeared in the Golden Age, but we were later told it was always the Daily star on Earth Two.

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