King Arthur

A British chieftain of the sixth cen­tury A.D., and the central figure of a large body of pseudohistorical and romantic literature. In legend he is the ruler of Camelot, the seat of his court and of the Round Table. He is the brother of Morgan Le Fay and the father-uncle of the traitorous Mordred. His wife, Queen Guinevere, betrays him by having an amour with Sir Lancelot, his dearest knight.

In Batman No. 36/3, Mordred, a trusted but traitor­ous knight of the Round Table, and Morgan Le Fay, queen of a nearby realm and openly an enemy of King Arthur, are presented as coconspirators in an elaborate scheme to abduct the wizard Merlin from Camelot and imprison him in Queen Morgan Le Fay's castle in order to make it appear that Merlin is a traitor.

Dispatched through the time barrier to Camelot, however, by Professor Carter Nichols, Batman and Robin join forces with Sir Lancelot and the other knights of the Round Table to expose and apprehend the evil Mordred, ovenvhelm the forces of Queen Morgan Le Fay, and rescue Merlin from the villains' clutches. Morgan Le Fay manages to escape, and there are hints that Batman has deliberately allowed this, perhaps because the evil queen had earlier rescued him from death at the hands of Mordred, perhaps be­cause of her uncanny resemblance to the Catwoman.