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Batman: The Killing Joke is a 1988 DC Comics one-shot graphic novel featuring the characters Batman and the Joker written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland. The Killing Joke provides another origin story for the supervillain the Joker, loosely adapted from the 1951 story "The Man Behind the Red Hood!", which was written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger.
The Killing Joke author Alan Moore in 2008. The novel has been described as the greatest Joker story ever told. [55] [56] [57] Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) built on the Joker's 1951 origin story, portraying him as a failed comedian who participates in a robbery as the Red Hood to support his pregnant wife. Batman arrives to stop the robbery ...
Batman: The Killing Joke is a 2016 American adult animated superhero film produced by Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.Featuring the DC Comics character Batman, the film is the 27th of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.
Joker keeps his promise of giving away the money, before releasing an airborne toxic version of Smylex onto the crowd via parade floats, killing dozens of people. Batman arrives in the Batwing and removes the balloons before Joker uses a revolver to shoot the plane out of the sky, causing it to crash on the steps of the Gotham City Cathedral.
The Joker shoots Barbara Gordon in Batman: The Killing Joke. The injury results in the character's paralysis. Art by Brian Bolland and John Higgins. DC officially retired the hero in the one-shot comic Batgirl Special #1 (July 1988), written by Barbara Kesel. [24] Later that year, Barbara Gordon appeared in Alan Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke.
While locked up in the Slab penitentiary, the Joker finds out that he is suffering from a terminal brain tumor. Determined to go out with a bang, he causes a riot in the Slab, and in the ensuing chaos, modifies the chemicals used by the prison to suppress its metahuman inmates into his Joker venom, and manages to "jokerize" the other inmates, making them insane and changing their appearance ...
Punchline is a supervillain who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the supervillain The Joker. Created by James Tynion IV and Jorge Jiménez, she first appears in Batman (vol. 3) #89 (April 2020), during the Joker War story arc. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Joker is an American graphic novel published by DC Comics in 2008. Written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Lee Bermejo, it is based on characters from DC's Batman series, focusing primarily on the title character.