William Cobb is Dick Grayson's great-grandfather and one of the many assassins called Talon who works for the Court of Owls. Cobb was the first Talon the Court sent after Bruce Wayne in Gotham City. In 1910, Cobb joined Haly's Circus, who secretly trained and sold their gifted young performers to the Court to act as their assassins. William accepted the invitation and had an Electrum tooth implanted in his mouth, giving him covert regenerative abilities. During the Infinite Frontier, Cobb was recruited into Task Force X after being abducted from Arkham Asylum and briefly became the third Owlman.
William Cobb was created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, first appearing in Batman (Volume 2) #2 (2011).
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