Aliases : Cameron van Cleer.
Base of Operations : Metropolis, DE.
Tag : killer moth
Important Plots : Infinity Inc, Crisis in Eternity
Journal(s) : infinity_inc
Status : Available

Powers and Abilities : A brief recap of the character's capabilities.

History : The original Killer Moth is a prisoner identified only by his prison number, 234026. While in prison, he reads a newspaper article about Batman and decides to set himself up as the "anti-Batman," hiring himself out to Gotham City's criminals to help them elude capture by police. Upon his release, he uses the hidden proceeds of his crimes to build a "Mothcave", modeled on the photos of the Batcave in the newspaper article he read. Killer Moth also establishes a false identity, as millionaire philanthropist Cameron van Cleer. In this guise, he becomes friends with Bruce Wayne. Meanwhile, he promotes himself to Gotham's criminals using his identity as Killer Moth, giving them each an infra-red Moth-signal. In his first job, he rescues some criminals from the police and then uses his Mothmobile to defeat and capture Batman and Robin. The duo escape and lead Killer Moth to a climactic battle on Gotham Bridge, which ends when the villain plunges 1,000 feet into the river and disappears.
In Shadow of the Bat #7, Killer Moth sets up a team called "the Misfits", comprising second-string Batman villains such as Catman and Calendar Man, to make another kidnap attempt on Bruce Wayne, as well as other prominent citizens. This team proves unsuccessful, turning against Moth when they realize he plans to kill the hostages. He is one of the villains who sells their souls to the demon Neron in Underworld Unleashed, where he asks to become feared. He is metamorphosed into a moth-like like monster called Charaxes. As Charaxes, Walker resembles a vaguely humanoid, giant brown moth. He consumes humans and spins cocoons in which to keep his prey. In a later story, Charaxes begins laying hundreds of eggs, all of which hatch into duplicates of Van Cleer. Charaxes despises his progeny, but is unable to destroy them. Following his capture, these duplicates are taken into government custody. During an argument between various bodies as to what should be done with them, they attack a scientist and are killed.

Other Sources :

• Killer Moth at the DC Database Project
• Killer Moth at Wikipedia

Divergences : One of the Charaxes eggs did survive the destruction of its others. Taken into custody by The Calculator , the emerged humanoid was a carbon copy of the original Cameron Van Cleer. The original Charaxes was never aware of its surviving progeny. Using artificial means, the copy was speed-raised to adulthood and kept as a side project of sorts for Calculator.

A side agreement with Lex Luthor involved the clone, now having taken the life and identity of the original, being placed on the magnate's "Infinite Initiative". Killer Moth, possessing a new armored battle suit , served as the team's technical support and heavy ordinance. Moth, along with his new squad, served in various adventures, becoming a reluctant hero along the way.

Recently, Moth was revealed to have been a plant from Calculator, feeding information back to the Society after Luthor's removal from the company. He was then forcibly removed from his position by a vengeful Catman, and left for dead after disposal. His current whereabouts are unknown.


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