REAPER II (Gruener)	BIOGRAPHY
Created by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams

PERSONAL DATA

Real Name: Gruener
Status: Deceased
Gender: Male
First Appearance: Batman Vol. 1 #237 (December 1971): "Night of the Reaper!"
Creators: Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams

HISTORY

Doctor Gruener was a German Jew who had been the inmate of a concentration camp run by Nazi Colonel Kurt Schloss, the murderer of Gruener's parents and sister. After the War, Gruener settled in the United States.

As an old man, he took on the masked identity of the Reaper (not to be confused with the Reaper identity taken on by Judson and Rachel Caspian), and killed Schloss during the Halloween parade of Rutland, Vermont. When Batman interfered, the Doctor regretted that he had become a cold-blooded killer himself. Shortly afterwards, the Reaper fell off a cliff, the Batman being unable to prevent his death.

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Reaper in chronological order click here