Joker Recommended Reading



The Joker is a super-villain and arch-nemesis of Batman. Since the Golden Age of Comic Books, he has remained as one of the most popular and threatening figures in the DC Universe. His personality is often conflicting and contradictory, switching from a mass-murdering psychopath to a harmless prankster on a whim, making him extremely unpredictable. Though he usually does not star in his own series, Joker is usually seem along side his the caped crusader in many of his books.

New Readers

 * Batman: The Man Who Laughs is the Post-Crisis retelling of Batman #1, changing some details but keeping the general story intact. It was written by Ed Brubaker.
 * Joker is a distorted, realistic interpretation of the Joker, written by Brian Azzarello, depicting the Joker as a much more disturbed (if that's possible) individual who ran his gang similar to a real-life mob. The story is told from the point of view of one of his hechmen.

Single issues

 * Batman #1 - The Joker and The Joker Returns
 * Batman: Mad Love
 * Batman #251 - Joker's Five Way Revenge
 * Batman Adventures #3 - Joker's Late Night Lunacy