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."
Jacques Dupin Jacques Dupin Jacques Dupin (4 March 1927, Privas, Ardèche – 27 October 2012, Paris) was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal "L'éphemère". Dupin was born in the town of Privas in the South of France, where his father was a psychiatrist at a state mental hospital. In 1944, the family moved to Paris, where, in 1950, the poet René Char helped him publish his first collection of poems. In 1966, he co-founded the poetry quarterly L’Éphémère, with poets including André du Bouchet, Yves Bonnefoy and Paul Celan. He was the director of publication at Galerie Maeght,