The few glimpses provided into the Tally Man's past reveal a tragic childhood. Starving and living in rags, the boy who was to become the Tally Man lived with his mother and sister, in constant fear of the criminals who threatened the family for the money his father had borrowed from them years before. After his father died, those same criminals extorted his weekly fee from the deceased man's wife. The boy begged his mother not to pay, but she tearfully replied, "Everybody has to pay the tally man." One night, when the collector came, his mother could not afford to pay and the criminal beat her. Filled with rage, the boy attacked and brutally killed the money collector with a fireplace poker. The 12-year-old boy was arrested for murder, and abused horribly by the others in the boy's prison, who called him a "mama's boy."

After his release, the boy returned home. When he discovered his sister had died of starvation and his mother had committed suicide, his mind snapped.

Years later, a figure dressed in the strange dark robes of an old-fashioned tax collector emerged in Gotham City, calling himself the Tally Man. Hired by the underworld to "collect" on debts owed, his fee was not money, but human lives. When Tally Man attempted to collect the "debt" owed by Batman, he battled Azrael, who was standing in for Batman while he recovered from a broken spine, mistaking him for the original. Azrael brutally beat and scarred Tally Man, leaving him with an even greater hatred for the Dark Knight. Tally Man returned to claim his debt again, only to be defeated by Nightwing (who had taken Azrael's place as Batman), believing the former Boy Wonder to be the man who had bested him previously.

Tally Man was seen aiding Two-Face during the events that transpired during No Man's Land. Two-Face murders Tally Man during a depression-fueled fit of psychosis.

Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Villain
Marital Status: Single
Base of Operations:Gotham City
Height: 6ft. 6in
Weight: 134 Lbs.
Eyes: White
Hair: White
First Appearance: Batman: Shadow of the Bat #19 (October, 1993)
Created By: Alan Grant


POWERS
None.

ABILITIES
Skilled Sharpshooter .

WEAPONS
None

Tally Man I Has Not Appeared In Any Other Form Of Batman Media