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The Joker's Silver Age transformation into a figure of fun was established in 1952's "The Joker's Millions". In this story, the Joker is obsessed with maintaining his illusion of wealth and celebrity as a criminal folk hero, afraid to let Gotham's citizens know that he is penniless and was tricked out of his fortune. [69]
The letters page of The Joker #9 (Sept.–Oct. 1976) mentions that Martin Pasko was writing a Joker vs. the Justice League of America story titled "99 and 99/100% Dead!" to appear in The Joker #10 as the first part of a two- or three-issue story arc, which was never published despite being listed as "on sale right now" on the Daily Planet ...
Joker is the first live-action theatrical Batman film to receive an R rating from the Motion Picture Association. [a] Joker premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on October 4. The film's critical reception was mixed but was a box office success and set ...
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.
Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck a.k.a. Joker and directed by Todd Phillips, the two films draw inspiration from DC Comics characters, rather than provide a canonical (or extended ...
Jack Napier, also known as the Joker, is a fictional character introduced in the 1989 superhero film Batman, directed by Tim Burton. Primarily portrayed by Jack Nicholson , the character was based on the DC Comics supervillain the Joker . [ 1 ]
However, Arkham State Hospital security guards (including one played by Brendan Gleeson) complicate things when they murder one of Arthur's fellow inmates, forcing the central character to come to ...
STATE OF THE ARTS: So much for the ‘theme park’ criticism, Martin Scorsese... Joaquin Phoenix’s new DC Comics sequel may be the driest, least fun ‘superhero movie’ ever released, writes ...