Lyle Bolton (New Earth)

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Lock-Up

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Real Name

Lyle Bolton

Current Alias

Lock-Up

Identity

Secret

Affiliation

Formerly The Society

Universe

New Earth

Base Of Operations

Gotham City

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Origin

Origin

Creators

Paul Dini

First appearance

Robin #24

History

Lock-Up's first appearance was in Robin #24 in which he captured Charaxes. He subsequently appeared in Detective Comics #694 in which he captured the minor villain Weedwhacker. In both these stories he only made a brief appearance at the end, removing the villain before Batman and Robin could return to the scene.

His first full appearance was in Detective Comics #697-699, which began with him capturing Two-Face, and taking him to his private prison alongside Charaxes, Weedwhacker and several gangsters. He is stopped by the police while targeting a criminal turned state evidence and is revealed to be Lyle Bolton, previously discharged from the police academy for being too gung-ho, and dismissed from several security jobs (unlike the animated version, he had not worked at Arkham). Lock-Up escaped, and captured minor street criminal Alvin Draper (actually Tim Drake's undercover identity). When Nightwing found his hideout, Lock-Up decided to drown all his prisoners in an underwater death-trap. Batman intervenes and defeats Lock-Up, saving the villains, Nightwing and Robin.

Lock-Up later appeared during the events of No Man's Land, having taken control of Blackgate Prison in the aftermath of the Cataclysm. He had enlisted the KGBeast and the Trigger Twins to act as wardens for his prison, and ruled with an iron fist; Batman only tolerated his presence because he required Lock-Up to keep captured criminals in check to prevent Gotham being overrun. Lock-Up was kept under strict orders to treat the prisoners well. Towards the end of the event, Batman enlisted Nightwing's help to overthrow Lock-Up, so Blackgate could be used by the lawful authorities again.

Lock-Up appeared in Villains United briefly, his expertise being used by The Society to break supervillains out of jail for the Battle of Metropolis. Ironically, he was shipped to the prison-planet along with the rest of the supervillain community in Salvation Run.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

None known.

Abilities

Expert on incarceration tactics and procedures.

Strength level

Not superhuman, but highly above Average.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

• Lock-Up was not originally created for comic books, his first appearance was as a villain on Batman: The Animated Series.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Discuss Lyle Bolton (New Earth) on the forums

• Appearances of Lyle Bolton (New Earth)
• Character Gallery: Lyle Bolton (New Earth)

Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

• Lock-Up at Wikipedia.org
  

Footnotes

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