Jonathan Sebastian "Jonny" Double is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. Created by Len Wein and Marv Wolfman, he first appeared in Showcase #78 (November 1968).
Publication history
Double appeared in various other DC titles, including Challengers of the Unknown #74 (Juneâ€"July 1970), Wonder Woman, and Kobra. Most recently Double was featured in Jonny Double: Two Finger Discount, a 1998 four-issue mini-series by Brian Azzarello (writer) and Eduardo Risso (artist), and published by Vertigo/DC Comics.
Fictional character biography
Jonny is an ex-police officer and now a down-on-his-luck private investigator working in San Francisco. Deliberately anachronistic, his speech is laced with beatnik and 1960s hipster slang. As described in his first appearance in Showcase, Double is "a down-beat Don Quixote in a society that frowns on windmills. A once white knight in rusty armor searching for that last dragon to slay. The poor man's Peter Pan."
Jonny appeared in four issues of Wonder Woman.
Vertigo limited series
In 1998, Brian Azzarello wrote a four-issue limited series starring Jonny Double, in which Jonny attempts to abscond with the money in an old bank account belonging to Al Capone.
References
Other sources
- Jonny Double at Thrilling Detective website
