Within hours, the entire crew was killed when Grundy flew into a rage. Croc kept his temper in check but left the gang to its fate. ![]() He'd discreetly established a foothold in Gotham and assembled a gang before returning to Florida to take care of "some personal loose ends." After snapping the neck of the deputy who had brutally beat him when he was ten, he returned to discover that his followers had affiliated themselves with the simple-minded Solomon Grundy. Croc had established powerful mob ties in Tampa that he was anxious to put to use elsewhere. Croc realized that there was more money to be made in crime, so he set out to become Gotham's most powerful underground figure. ![]() Even then, his strength level was greatly beyond that of a normal human. But some day, SOME DAY, I knew they'd call me KING!" It was at this point that Waylon began referring to himself as Killer Croc. I had the strength, I had the hate - why shouldn't I USE it to get what I wanted? 'Killer Croc' - that's what they called me. "I broke their backs with my bare hands," Jones later recalled. Out of prison, he found a job in a carnival sideshow. He murdered a fellow prisoner who mocked his appearance but nonetheless was out on parole "after eighteen years behind bars. Jones was a regular visitor to the juvenile detention center and was finally tried and convicted as an adult when he was sixteen. ![]() As a teenager, Waylon had no friends, and was the object of ridicule of those who knew him. Waylon was raised by his abusive aunt her persistent alcoholism prevented him from growing up in a suitable environment. His mother died in childbirth, and his father abandoned him. Waylon Jones was born with an extreme form of the medical condition Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, which caused his appearance to develop progressively into that of a crocodile, hence his name.
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