Who is Arkham Asylum's most famous resident?
Arkham Asylum Arkham Asylum The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, typically called Arkham Asylum or simply Arkham (), is a fictional psychiatric hospital appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in stories featuring the superhero Batman. Arkham Asylum first appeared in "Batman" #258 (Oct. 1974), written by Dennis O'Neil with art by Irv Novick. Arkham Asylum serves as a psychiatric hospital for the Gotham City area, housing patients who are criminally insane. Arkham's high-profile patients are often from Batman's rogues gallery, such as the Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, the Penguin, Harley Quinn, Clayface, Bane, the
Arkham Asylum occasional "Arkham Sanitarium", as the institution's name. Also in 1979, the move to have the asylum closer to Gotham had begun; that was completed in 1980, when "Batman" #326 by Len Wein described the asylum's location "deep in the suburbs of Gotham City". It is perhaps for this reason that "Batman" #326 is listed in some histories as the first appearance of Arkham Asylum. It was also Wein who, in 1985's "Who's Who: The Definitive Dictionary of the DC Universe" #1, created its current backstory. Arkham Asylum has been demolished or destroyed several times in its history, notably during the