Commissioner Loeb

Evil-doer
Full Name	Gillian B. Loeb
Alias	Commissioner Gillian Loeb
Origin	DC Comics
Occupation	Gotham City Police Department commissioner
Powers / Skills	Police training and political manipulation
Hobby	"Managing" the police station.
Goals	Arrest or kill Batman. Get rid Lieutenant Gordon without getting him fired.
Crimes	No information
Type of Villain	Corrupt Official

Gillian B. Loeb was the corrupt GCPD commissioner, until he was fired and replaced by James Gordon.

History

Gillain makes his first appearance in Frank Miller's Batman: Year One as the corrupt Gotham City Police Commissioner who was on the payrole of mob boss Carmine Falcone and had hired Lieutenant James Gordon. Loeb originally took no action against Batman, as he was only targeting low level criminals at the time, and he gave the public "false" hope. This changed when Batman attacked a party organised by Falcone in which Loeb was in attendence, where he publicly declared he would bring them to justice.

The enraged Loeb sent armies of officers against the Bat, but his attempts failed to bring the vigilante to "justice". When Gordon began assisting the caped crusader, Loeb attemtped to blackmail him with evidence of the former's affair with Sgt. Sarah Essen, but Gordon confessed his infidelity to his wife Barbara. Later, Batman, Harvey Dent, and Gordon revealed to the public of Loeb's workings with Falcone's mob, so the corrupt officer was forced to resign. He was repalced by Jack Grogan, who was just as corrupt as his predcecessor; Gordon would become police commissioner a few years later.

In Batman: Dark Victory, Loeb sided with the Hangman in the hopes of digracing Gordon and regaining his former position, where Loeb was eventually killed by his own partner.

In the New 52 continuity, during the Batman: Zero Year (the New 52 remake of Batman: Year One) Loeb did start as corrupt, but after the event, he chose to resign after learning that Black Mask had killed some his men because he felt responsible for allowing his department to become too corrupt.

Batman: Arkham Origins

Loeb appears in the Batman: Arkham Asylum prequel, Batman: Arkham Origins, as, yet again, a corrupt police officer in charge of the GCPD. However, he was betrayed by The Joker (who was impersonating Black Mask) where Loeb was thrown into Blackgate Prison's execution chamber (which was meant for the Calendar Man) and was killed via gas before a young Batman could help.

Later in the game under the influence of Copperhead's neurotoxin, Batman hallucinates Loeb chastising him for not helpping him, representing Batman's guilt over not being able to save the corrupt commissioner before he was murdered.

Gotham

See: Gillian Loeb (Gotham)

Gilliam Loeb appears in the TV Series Gotham and as a supporting antagonist in the first season.