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Jonathan Krane is the founder and CEO of KraneShares, an asset management firm delivering China and climate focused exchange traded funds to global investors. He has spent the last 20 years working with companies in China.
Jonathan Krane is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KraneShares, an asset management firm delivering China-focused exchange traded funds to global investors. KraneShares focuses on providing expert access and products for investors to gain exposure to China’s capital markets.
Jonathan Krane is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of KraneShares, an asset…. · Experience: KraneShares · Education: Columbia Business School · Location: New York · 500+...
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Golden Age
Elements of the Scarecrow fear-gas appeared in Batman publications prior to his first appearance. For instance, the idea of fear gas first appeared in Detective Comics #46 in December 1940, in a story featuring Hugo Strange, in which Strange uses a special fear dust in order to scare the police and successfully rob a bank. In his first appearance in World's Finest Comics #3 during the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Scarecrow is first introduced as Jonathan Crane, a professor of psychology, wh...
Silver Age
Throughout the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, the Scarecrow was revived to be one of Batman's most recurring rivals. He is a frequent member of the Injustice Gang. Ironically, in this Earth-One incarnation, Crane has a strange fear of birds, even though he has a pet magpie named Craw. Scarecrow also owned a pet crow he named Nightmare.
Post-Crisis, Modern-Age Version
Following the 1986 multi-title event Crisis on Infinite Earths reboot, Crane's origin story was greatly expanded in the 1989 graphic novel Batman/Scarecrow #1, part of the Batman: Year Onecontinuity. In the novel, he becomes obsessed with fear and revenge from being bullied throughout his childhood and adolescence for his lanky frame and bookish nature. He commits his first murder at the age of 18 by brandishing a gun in his high school parking lot during the senior prom. Dressed in the ghoul...
Abilities
1. Genius Intellect: A master strategist and manipulator, Scarecrow’s genius renders him the most intellectually clever and terrifying criminal mastermind that can dive into the minds of his opponents through nightmarish tactics. Crane also expresses a fondness towards literature including those such as Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and James Joyce’s Ulysses, and is shown to be a well-versed individual as demonstrated by his memorization of different poems and often speaks i...
Powers
1. Toxic Immunity: He seems to have formed an immunity to fear, which depresses him. 2. Transformation (formerly): After some genetic manipulation done to him secretly by Dr.Linda Friitawa (also known as the criminal "Fright"),Scarecrow gains the ability to turn into a large monster with greatly enhanced strength, endurance, and a fear gas he naturally emits. However, he has to be under physical strain or duress to transform.
Anxiety Disorder: Crane once suffered from corvidophobia (fear of crows) after being attacked by a murder of crows at his family aviary. He managed to overcome this somehow and is often seen with a...Obsession: Motivated by an obsessive need to create fear in others, Scarecrow goes from using the primal emotion as a weapon to the point where he preaches it.Crimson Mist
Scarecrow appears in the third and final chapter of the Batman vampire series, Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, where his suit has been adorned with laces of severed fingers from past victims who he slaughters using a hand held sickle knife. His targets have become more specific as he is after the jocks who used to torment him in school. He is about to kill a former football player when vampire Batman appears, brutally noting that Scarecrow is almost worse than him; he now has no choice but to kil...
Crane's fate in the DC animated universe is revealed in the 2010 Batman Beyondcomic storyline where it is mentioned that Scarecrow actually retired from a life of crime and spent the last ten years of his life writing out experiments before dying of illness.
Company Crossovers
Scarecrow was featured in the Batman/Daredevil: King of New Yorkcrossover where he attempts to use the Kingpin's crime empire to disperse his fear gas over Gotham, only to be defeated when Daredevil lives up to his 'Man Without Fear' title by proving immune to the gas. He was also featured in the DC vs. Marvel crossover where he temporarily allies with his Marvel universe equivalent to capture Lois Lane before they are both defeated by Ben Reilly.
Miscellaneous
1. In the novelization of Batman & Robin, Scarecrow is mentioned to be an inmate at Arkham Asylum.
In Scarecrow's debut stories, the character used only fear and intimidation tactics in his crimes. In the character's reintroduction in Batman #189, the character was established to use his signatu...
Dr. Jonathan Crane was a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum who conducted experiments on inmates under the identity of Scarecrow. He is portrayed in The Dark Knight Trilogy by Cillian Murphy.
Jonathan Krane is Chairman of the US-China Green Institute and the founder and CEO of KraneShares, an asset management firm delivering China and climate focused exchange traded funds to global investors.
Jonathan Krane is the founder and CEO of KraneShares, a $15 Billion asset management firm delivering China-focused exchange traded funds to global investors. He has spent the last 20 years working with companies in China.
