Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1038387-20140530104512/@comment-1639863-20140531123033

Wait. He wasn't Red Hood? You said original. Earth-Two, his first appearance, gives the story that he was the Red Hood. He was robbing a profitable store until Batman and Robin arrived. Red Hood then abandoned his men and ran inside the Ace Chemicals Plant, fell into a vat of acid that was used to make Monarch playing cards, and became the Joker.

How "original" do you want the story?