Rogues gallery
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Rogues gallery is a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes.
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[edit] History
In 1850, Allan Pinkerton founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Pinkerton devised the Rogues’ Gallery[citation needed] — a compilation of descriptions, methods of operation, hiding places, and names of criminals and their associates.
Inspector Thomas Byrnes of the late 19th century New York City Police Department popularized the term with his collection of photographs of known criminals, which was used for witness identification. Byrnes published some of these photos with details of the criminals in Professional Criminals of America (1886) [1].
[edit] In popular culture
Rogues Gallery was the name of an old-time radio program that aired in the 1940s.[2]
An album was released in 2006 as a tie-in with the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl under the name of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys.
Rogues' Gallery is also the name of an accessory for the first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. This booklet contains hundreds of pre-rolled non-player characters of all classes and types, complete with alignments, and personalities.
[edit] In Superheroes and Comics
Rogues gallery is also a term in comics referring to a specific hero or superhero's recurring and most notable enemies, as opposed to nameless thugs and goons.
[edit] Lists of Superhero Rogues Galleries
- List of Superman enemies
- List of Batman enemies
- List of Wonder Woman enemies
- List of Flash enemies
- List of Spider-Man enemies
- List of X-Men enemy teams
[edit] See also
- Mug shot
- Wanted poster
- Criminal record
- Detective
- Public enemy
- Supervillain
- Supervillainess
- Archenemy
[edit] References
- ^ Byrnes, Thomas. Professional Criminals of America (1886) ISBN 1-5857411-3-2
- ^ Ohmart, Ben. It's That Time Again. (2002) (Albany: BearManor Media) ISBN 0-9714570-2-6
