Paul Sloane (Earth-Two)

Originally hired to portray the original Two-Face (Harvey Kent) in a movie, Paul Sloane suffered an accident that destroyed his half of face in a manner like Two-Face I. For a period of time, Sloane thought himself to actually be Kent, but he later regained enough of himself to later choose to be the successor Two-Face. Finding crime far more successful and more profitable than his former career, Sloane continued on as the new Two-Face.

After being cured of his own temporary insanity, some years later, Kent would plead with and fail to redeem the Sloane, who found his true calling as the criminal entity over his original failed identity. Kent would successfully prosecute the second Two-Face on several occasions after the second Two-Face would be arrested by Batman in his excessive criminal acts.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Sloane had no known superhuman abilities

Abilities

Sloane had no superhuman abilities but was effective in planning out and executing elaborate schemes and tactics involving many criminal organizations

Strength level

Paul Sloane possessed the normal human strength of an average 6-foot, 180-pound man who engaged in regular physical exercise during his prime. His strength levels deceases as he got older.

Weaknesses

Sloane has all the normal weaknesses of a human male

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Sloane employed a scarred coin to help him make planning decisions though unlike Kent really would make a decision flip in the execution of a plan which would be successfully used against Kent

Transportation

No exotic devices

Weapons

regular handguns and machine guns as an active criminal

Notes

It is the second Two-Face (Sloane) who is used as the archetype of the character in most of the later portrayals and alternate media over the original Two-Face who did not want to be a criminal. In the newspaper, that version is also an distorted actor named "Harvey Apollo",as well as the later revival of the character in the 1960s. The Sloane incarnation would be brought back in the New Earth reality as a pawn of Harvey Dent (originally in Detective Comics #580 and #581, and again Detective Comics #777). And as the Golden Age incarnation, the New Earth Sloane was disfigured when hired to play in the story of Two-Face. Intentially disfigured by Dent, Sloane sought to outdo his predecessor same as the Golden Age Two-Face who because he was second Two-Face thinks of himself as far superior to the original. However unlike the Earth-Two incarnations, Sloane has not actually replaced the original Two-Face but merely supplements as the second one.

While Kent was only Two-Face I of Earth-Two for a short period of time, Sloane remained as Two-Face II for most of his adult life.

It is Sloane who has been the basis of most of the sucessive incarnation of the character despite the name and background of Kent later Dent used as the basis of the character. Two-Face is the primary personality to the point that he enjoys being Two-Face despite any opportunity to change back to his original persona which is the personal nature of Sloane, not Kent.

Kent's bulter Wilkins disguised himself as Two-Face before Sloane become the second true Two-Face in order to frame Kent for Wilkins' own crimes. But unlike either Kent or Sloane, Wilkins only wore makeup and was not insane. Thus Wilkins is not considered to be a true Two-Face.^{[citation needed]}

It is unknown if Sloane survived into old age during the time of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Sloane was seen in the same criminal prison as was the Earth-Two Joker (Kent's face remained repaired, while Sloane's was not, suggesting that the Two-Face shown was Sloane). If he did, like all people of Earth-Two, Sloane was killed and erased from ever existing during the Crisis on Infinite Earths and succeeded by his new Earth counterpart as shown in Detective Comics #580.
Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-Two era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985-86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.

Trivia

Unlike Kent, only Sloane's face was damaged. Sloane's hair was not distorted in color and remained completely black on both sides.

Links and References

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Footnotes

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