![]() ![]() He killed a whole city's spirit.ĭuring their short, but memorable stint on "Detective Comics," Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin made the title a bit of a "Who's who?" of Batman's universe. It was one of the Joker's most devastating series of kills. What made this so maddening for the GCPD was that they really needed to turn to Batman to resolve the situation, which just made them feel all the more powerless. People then realized that it was the Joker when he debuted a website featuring web cams of various spots in Gotham City, with a countdown as to when the next killings would take place. Hours later, while the police are canvassing the school where the shooting took place, suddenly a sniper opened fire on the EMTs and police and crime lab workers, shocking everyone that the sniper would wait hours and then fire on people checking out the earlier killing! Then Gotham's superintendent is murdered while visiting a school (also by a sniper). The story was dubbed "Soft Targets," and it opened with the mayor of Gotham City being murdered in his office by a sniper. One of the Joker's greatest pieces of psychological warfare on Gotham City occurred in the pages of "Gotham Central" #12-15 (by co-writers Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker and artist Michael Lark). As it turned out, however, that was just a devoted Batman fan that the Joker killed and "Two-Face" was secretly Batman, trying to figure out which of his villains had killed the super fan. The Joker then dissolved Batman's face so that no one could even identify the body! That's some messed up stuff. ![]() He got into a fight with Batman and accidentally killed him when his Joker venom-tipped ring opened up during the fight and hit Batman, killing him instantly. The winner, though, was the Joker in "Batman" #294. The first three issues had various villains make claims, all of which Two-Face poked holes in until they were shown to be false. Ra's Al Ghul served as their judge and Two-Face was the prosecutor who would test each villain's claim that it was they who killed Batman. Reed, John Calnan and Tex Blaisdell told the classic four-part epic, “Where Were You On The Night Batman Was Killed?" The storyline opened with the death of Batman and then all of Batman's most notable villains taking credit for the killing. She slipped on the classic comedic gag and cracked her head on a desk, dying instantly. Joker, though, had hidden a banana peel in his pants and he let it loose as the psychiatrist left the stand. One attempt was "Batman Confidential" #24 (by Andrew Kreisberg, Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens), where a psychiatrist testifies at a trial about how evil the Joker is and how he should never see the light of day. Later stories delved into his insanity a bit more. Both were just places he stayed until he broke out and went on a rampage again. Arkham Asylum was really the same as whatever prison the Joker was in before. However, Joker's insanity was really more of a surface thing than anything else. Around the same time, Arkham Asylum also began to play a role in the "Batman" comics. It wasn't until he was revamped and brought back to his murderous roots in the early 1970s that the concept of Joker being criminally insane became a major part of the comics. In the early days of the Joker, he went to prison just like any other criminal. ![]()
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