Title: Batman - The Killing Joke
One-Shot
Release Date: June 1988
Highlights- Batman goes to Arkham Asylum to have a deep conversation with Joker about them ultimately killing each other and discovers he's escaped
- Joker's origin revealed - Or is it? Joker himself says sometimes he remembers it one way, sometimes another. He prefers to have a multiple choice past
- Joker obtains his carnival "home"
- Joker comes to Commissioner Gordon's house, shoots Barbara and takes the Commissioner with him
- Barbara becomes paralyzed from the waist down
- In a flashback of his origin, Joker dawns the garb of Red Hood
- Batman gives Joker one last chance to let him help him, but he declines
- Joker makes Batman laugh with a joke
- Disturbing images and story - Don't read this if you have any aversions to graphic scenes
- Story ends abruptly and with very little resolution or epilogue beyond Joker obviously being captured again
Oddities
- None
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