Publication history Īrkham Hospital in Batman #258 (October 1974). Eventually, Amadeus Arkham was a patient in his own asylum after he tried to kill his stockbroker in 1929, where he died scratching the words of a binding spell into the walls and floor of his cell with his fingernails and belting out " The Star-Spangled Banner" in a loud voice. The staff treated the death as an accident, but it contributed to Amadeus Arkham's gradual descent into mental illness, which he began to believe was his birthright. After treating Mad Dog for six months, Amadeus Arkham strapped him to an electroshock couch, then deliberately and purposefully electrocuted him. One of its first patients was Mad Dog, whom Amadeus Arkham insisted on treating personally.
Arkham designed a floor plan that evoked occult runes, he believed that the pattern would drive away the mysterious bat that haunted his dreams. Despite this family tragedy, the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane officially opened that November. Inside, he discovered the raped and mutilated corpses of his wife and daughter in an upstairs room, with Mad Dog's alias carved on Harriet's body. Shortly afterward, Amadeus Arkham returned to his home to find his front door wide open.
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While there, Amadeus Arkham received a call from the police notifying him that Martin "Mad Dog" Hawkins, a serial killer, referred to Amadeus Arkham by Metropolis Penitentiary while at State Psychiatric Hospital, had escaped from prison and sought his considered opinion on the murderer's state of mind. Upon his telling his family of his plans, they moved back to his family home to oversee the remodeling. Prior to the period of the hospital's remodeling, Amadeus Arkham treated patients at the State Psychiatric Hospital in Metropolis, where he, his wife Constance and his daughter Harriet had been living for quite some time. Amadeus then decided, as the sole heir to the Arkham estate, to remodel his family home in order to properly treat the mentally ill, so others might not suffer the same fate as his mother. However, it was later revealed that her son had actually euthanized her and repressed the memory. Its dark history began in the early 1900s when Arkham's mother, having suffered from mental illness most of her life, committed suicide. The original name of the asylum was "Arkham Hospital". The one-shot graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth establishes that the asylum was named after Elizabeth Arkham, the mother of founder Amadeus Arkham. He was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the same asylum he had been building.
Serving as a Gotham City psychiatric hospital, Arkham Asylum has a long and brutal history, beginning when its own architect became mentally unwell and hacked his workers to death with an axe. Origins Īrkham Asylum in Detective Comics (vol. Gotham criminals deemed "criminally insane" or "mentally unfit" by the court of law generally are treated at Williams Medical Center before being deemed dangerous enough to be sent to Arkham Asylum. Freeze is not always depicted as mentally ill, but he requires a strongly refrigerated environment to stay alive Arkham, with special conditions required for certain patients or inmates being a regularity rather than an exception, is seen by authorities to be an ideal location under certain circumstances. In addition, prisoners with unusual medical conditions that prevent them from staying in a regular prison are housed in Arkham. Jonathan Crane and Professor Hugo Strange, have become mentally unwell. Harleen Quinzel, Lyle Bolton and, in some incarnations, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham, as well as staff members Dr. Amadeus Arkham, and his nephew, director Dr. Furthermore, several staff members, including its founder, Dr.
Lovecraft, and in particular his fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, the asylum was introduced by Dennis O'Neil and Irv Novick and first appeared in Batman #258 (October 1974) much of its back-story was created by Len Wein during the 1980s.Īrkham Asylum has a poor security record and high recidivism rate, at least with regard to the high-profile cases-patients, such as the Joker, are frequently shown escaping at will-and those who are considered to no longer be mentally unwell and discharged tend to re-offend. Although it has had numerous administrators, some comic books have featured Jeremiah Arkham.
Located in Gotham City, Arkham Asylum is where Batman's foes who are considered to be mentally ill are brought as patients (other foes are incarcerated at Blackgate Penitentiary).
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