C. Auguste Dupin of their around-the-world adventure. A Pierre Dupin appears in Universal Pictures' 1932 horror-mystery film "Murders in the Rue Morgue". "The Mystery of Marie Roget" was also filmed in 1942. Dupin (played by Joseph Cotten) is a character in the 1951 Fletcher Markle film "The Man with a Cloak". Dupin's true identity is revealed at the end of the film to be Poe himself. In the comic series "Batman Confidential", the creation of Batman's crime-solving super-computer which is linked to Interpol, FBI, and CIA databases is introduced. Commonly known as the "Bat Computer," it is originally nicknamed "Dupin," after Batman's "hero."
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