Jonathan Bard

A brilliant but unscrupulous puppet-master – described as a "wizard with pup­pets" – who, enraged at having been expelled from a puppeteering competition for attempting to sabotage the puppets of a fellow contestant, angrily "resolves to embark on a career of crime" in order to wreak revenge on the contest's judges while at the same time estab­lishing himself beyond dispute as "the greatest puppet­ master of all!" Aided by a spectacular array of lifelike puppets, Bard commits a series of brazen robberies ­ all directed against property owned by the contest judges who expelled him – until he is finally apprehended by Batman and Robin.