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"Batman: "The Joker's Millions"": The criminal lord "King" Barlowe has died and left all his fortune in money and jewels to his sworn enemy, the Joker. Using his newfound fortune, Joker changes his lifestyle, buys a gigantic mansion and becomes a frequent client of social c

Quote1 To think that I have to work like an ordinary criminal to get money to pay my taxes! Quote2
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Detective Comics #180 is an issue of the series Detective Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1952.

Synopsis for Batman: "The Joker's Millions"

The criminal lord "King" Barlowe has died and left all his fortune in money and jewels to his sworn enemy, the Joker. Using his newfound fortune, Joker changes his lifestyle, buys a gigantic mansion and becomes a frequent client of social clubs. However, when the time comes for Joker to pay the mandatory taxes after an inheritance, he realizes that almost the entire money and jewels left by Barlowe are fake and he has no actual money to pay his taxes.

Joker has to take up crime once again to afford the amount of money he has to pay in taxes, but he commits normal crimes to prevent rising suspicion of Barlowe's trick on him. Despite his efforts for doing regular crimes, there is always an unsuspected clue that points towards him as the mastermind behind them. The newspapers include every other crime on their headlines and they are always attributed to the Joker. Later, Joker finally tells the truth to a crook named Duke Gorman and not long after this, Batman confronts Joker with a confession recorded, revealing he had been posing as Gorman. Joker tries to escape using one of the jewels before realizing that it was one of the fake ones. Joker is finally captured and his millionaire charade comes to an end.

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  • "King" Barlowe (Mentioned only) (Deceased)
  • Jarvis (Single appearance)
  • "Knuckles" (Single appearance)
  • "Waxey" Gates (Single appearance)
  • Watkins (Single appearance)
  • Duke Gorman

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  • Robbie White (Single appearance)

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  • John Dirk (Single appearance)
  • Gregor (Single appearance)

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  • Stephen Sparling (Single appearance)

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  • White Bear (Single appearance)

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  • Marv (Single appearance)
  • Jake (Single appearance)
  • Chuck (Single appearance)

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  • Little Fox (Single appearance)

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