Who Is Oliver Twist? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Oliver Twist is a In the Public Domain comic book character, with over 51 comic issue appearances. English orphan What? More gruel?

Who is Oliver Twist?

Origin Oliver Twist was born the illegitimate son of a wealthy man and an unwed mother in a parish workhouse in an unnamed town that was initially identified as "Mudfog." The infant's mother died in childbirth, and the child was named by the Beadle, a man named Bumble, and sent to be raised at a baby farm. He remained there for nine years, living more or less in poverty, before being returned to the workhouse. There he continues to receive cruel treatment from those in charge, spending six months working while receiving very little food or comfort. He and several other orphans draw lots to pick one child to ask for another portion of gruel. The request is met with outraged indignation, and Twist is essentially thrown from the workhouse, offered to anyone who will take him on as an apprentice. He is thus apprenticed to an undertaker, who also treats Twist poorly. After being beaten for quarrelling with another boy also employed by the undertaker, Twist flees his master and travels to London . Creation Oliver Twist was created by Charles Dickens .

Key facts

Oliver Twist is of human origin and first appeared in "Jokes and Pictures for the Home". The character is published by In the Public Domain. With 51 recorded issue appearances, Oliver Twist ranks among the most featured characters in comics.