Julian Day (Prime Earth)

Julian Day is a criminal who has the ability to age based on the seasons of the year. At the end of each year, he dies and is reborn again the next year. This cycle created his obsession with dates as he uses it to play sick games for Batman to solve.

History

Calendar Man usually a permanent inmate of Arkham Asylum. When Batman hid Psycho Pirate in Arkham, Bane came for him and tore through the asylum and defeated all it's inmates, who Batman had freed to weaken Bane. Eventually, Bane confronted Calendar Man, but instead of fighting him, Calendar Man stated that everything was just a loop and that all of this was pointless as Bane would never win.^[1]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Unique Physiology:
- Accelerated Aging: Day's body ages at an accelerated rate, "with the seasons". Each season he gets older and will always die in winter and molt his skin.^[2]
- Resurrection: After Day dies in winter, he molts his skin and is reborn a young man in his prime. This usually takes an entire year but with chemical spores he can hasten the process to as little as a week.

Abilities

Journalism: Day acted as an anchor on the superhero news channel - Channel 52 - after first gaining his reputation as Calendar Man.
Firearms
Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)
Tactical Analysis
Psychology

Weaknesses

Power Instability: Eventually, Day must die and be reborn. He has little control over this.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Magic Hat: (Formerly) Calendar Man was given a magic hat by Mister Mxyzptlk that allowed him to see and manipulate the panels that make up his comic book world.^[3]
- Cosmic Awareness
  - Precognition
  - Retrocognition
- Chronokinesis
- Reality Alteration
- Superhuman Strength: Calendar Man could hit hard enough to injure Superman.
- Teleportation

Notes

Julian Day was created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff, first appearing in Detective Comics #259. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Julian Day first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in Channel 52 #1 by Tom King, Scott Snyder, and Mikel Janin.

Trivia

The tattoos on Julian Day's head are sometimes roman numerals depicting the months of the year. Sometimes the months are written in three letter short form instead of numbers.