Two prominent public personas of Gotham were businessman Lucius Fox and congressman Jason Philips. The former was the Chief Operating Officer of the Wayne Foundation, appointed by Bruce Wayne sister that he could secretly concentrate on his alter ego of the Batman on Earth-One. Fox would be integral in causing the Foundation to remain solvent and, indeed, profitable despite outside threats from corrupt politicians, competing business rivals and super villains such as Poison Ivy attempting to control of Wayne's businesses.
While Lucius was an friend of Batman almost as he was a colleague of Bruce, his counterpart was more of an uneasy ally of Dick Grayson, the heir of the Bruce Wayne from Earth-Two. Both Dick and Jason Phillips were recruited by senator William Hopkins in the congressional trial of the Justice Society of America, promoted by the slanderous Diary of Batman which alleged crimes committed by the Society.
This conflict between the Dark-knight Detective and the Society mirrored that of his doppelgänger and the League when Fox was kidnapped in Marcovia due to Batmans's League allies refused to help rescue him. This led the Batman forming a new team in the Outsiders supported by Fox's Foundation. No such splinter group was formed following the Society's trial, as Philips voted in support of that team and overturned Batman's charges.
This conflict between the Dark-knight Detective and the Society mirrored that of his doppelgänger and the League when Fox was kidnapped in Marcovia due to Batmans's League allies refused to help rescue him. This led the Batman forming a new team in the Outsiders supported by Fox's Foundation. No such splinter group was formed following the Society's trial, as Philips voted in support of that team and overturned Batman's charges.
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