Who Is Great White Shark? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Great White Shark is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Warren White, with over 88 comic issue appearances. A crooked financier who pleaded insanity to escape a prison sentence, Warren White was sent to Arkham Asylum where he was scarred, mutilated, and gradually driven insane by the other inmates.

Who is Great White Shark?

Origin Warren White was a crooked financier who earned the name "Great White Shark" due to his ruthlessness. He embezzled his company's pension fund and robbed almost all of the company's clients - both working class and upper class - of their life savings. As an attempt to avoid prison he pleaded insanity, but knowing that he paid off the jury, the judge sentenced him to Arkham Asylum . Oblivious to the horrors he would face, White entered Arkham thinking that he could buy his way through like everything in his life. But to his discovery he became the fresh 'fish' of the asylum, hated by inmates and staff alike. Even the Joker told him that he was the worst person he'd ever met, because even though he himself kills people, he doesn't take their kids' college funds. Killer Croc later cut slits into White's neck, since he figured "the new 'fish' needed a set of 'gills.'" Eventually he met with the Asylum psychiatrist, Dr. Anne Carver and offered a bribe of $20 million in return for his transfer to a minimum security prison.

Key facts

Great White Shark is of human origin and first appeared in "Chapter 1: Whole in the Head". The character is published by DC Comics. With 88 recorded issue appearances, Great White Shark ranks among the most featured characters in comics.