Lewis "Lew" Moxon is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is most famous for hiring Joe Chill to murder young Bruce Wayne's parents in early versions of Batman's origin story, thus making him indirectly responsible for Batman's existence.
Who hired Joe Chill to kill Batman's parents in Gotham?
In Detective Comics #235 (1956), Batman learns that Chill was not a mere mugger, but actually a hitman who murdered the Waynes on orders from a mob boss named Lew Moxon.
Batman learns that Chill had been trying to express his guilt and regret for killing the Waynes for years. And Batman, as Bruce Wayne, is there to comfort Chill when Chill, an old sick man filled with remorse, finally passes away.
In the end of season 2, Malone was hired by Hugo Strange to kill Thomas and Martha Wayne. Hugo Strange who hired Malone to kill Thomas and Martha Wayne because Thomas found what Strange was running in a secret operation called Indian Hill.
Once they are face to face, Chill reveals the secret he'd kept for five decades and how he was the fall guy for the Court of Owls' plot to kill Thomas and Martha Wayne. According to Joe Chill, he had been hired to mug some rich couple and scare them.
Chill turned his gun to a young Bruce Wayne, preaching to him that heroic deeds only get people killed, like his father before him, but ultimately let the boy live.
Their 'alliance' culminated in Batman taking Chill to Crime Alley after the Reaper's apparent death, where he unmasked in front of Chill, the two men fighting for a time before Chill was forced to his knees while Bruce pointed Chill's own gun at his head.
Gotham Police detective Jim Gordon is assigned to investigate the case, and deduces that a man named Mario Pepper was behind the killings, but eventually realizes that Pepper was framed and the real killer is still out there.
Desperate, Wayne turned to Falcone to have the latter intimidate the reporter, only for Falcone to kill him so he could have something on the Wayne family. Wayne, wracked with guilt, threatened to reveal everything to the police; he and his wife to be killed were murdered a week later.
But other than that, few stories had any real impact, which is why it is BAFFLING to see Bill Finger, out of NOWHERE, suddenly drop a major story like "The Origin of the Batman!" in April 1948's Batman #47 (with art by Bob Kane and Charles Paris), where Batman meets Joe Chill, the man who murdered his parents!
During Batman's funeral, it was revealed that Alfred created the identity of the Joker to antagonize Batman, presenting himself as the Dark Knight's greatest villain.
If Gotham Knights truly wishes to provide a shocking twist, it will reveal Turner Hayes as Batman's killer. While the best-known son of Batman is certainly Damian Wayne, Turner is the protagonist of this particular series and apparently had no idea that Bruce was Batman.
No, Joker killing Thomas and Martha Wayne is only a thing in the Batman 1989 movie where his name was Jack Napier. In Comics, Joe Chill killed Martha and Thomas and he is not related to Joker. Joe Chill's full name is Joseph Chilton. In fact, Joe Chill has died in multiple timelines.
Following her introduction to the comics in 1999, Harley Quinn was depicted as the sidekick and lover of the Joker as well as the criminal associate and best friend of Poison Ivy.
Wayne violently asserts that he is not Arthur's father as soon as Arthur introduces himself, and point-blank tells Arthur that he was adopted and that Penny Fleck had been committed because of her delusional belief there was something between her and Wayne.
Batman and Joker definitely aren't brothers in the comics. While the Joker movie plays very deeply with this idea, it still maintains the same stance. In the books, Joker's origin story has been a mystery. Readers have come across multiple different ones over the years.
Although most fans know of Batman being trained by Ra's al Ghul, there are plenty of other notable people who have shown the Caped Crusader how to beat criminals to a pulp. Bruce Wayne had to train his body to a high level, in order to keep pace with the baddies of Gotham, and all of DC.
He killed Commissioner James Gordon by pouring acid on him and leaving nothing except his coat and glasses. He blew up countless buildings which killed at least thousands of people. He infected several orphaned children with his Jokarized gas.
According to the 2004 comic "Fear Itself," Joe Chill simply didn't "have the guts" to kill Bruce. In this story, Chill is portrayed as properly paranoid, worried that millionaire Bruce Wayne will recognize him and have him sent to prison, there to await his execution.
