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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.
Moore wrote the lead story in Batman Annual No. 11 (1987) drawn by George Freeman. [46] The following year saw the publication of The Killing Joke, written by Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland. It revolved around The Joker, who had escaped Arkham Asylum and gone on a killing spree, and
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 ...
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[54] [55] The story altered the DC Universe: instead of killing anonymous bystanders, the Joker murdered a core character in the Batman fiction. [56] Alongside The Killing Joke (which featured Barbara Gordon, Batgirl, being shot in the stomach and paralyzed) and the success of the 1989 Batman film, "A Death in the Family" pushed the Batman ...
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.
Brian Bolland (/ ˈ b ɒ l ə n d /; born 26 March 1951) [1] is a British comics artist.Best known in the United Kingdom as one of the Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology 2000 AD, he spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the American comics industry, and in 1982 produced the artwork alongside author Mike W. Barr on Camelot 3000, which was DC Comics' first 12-issue comicbook ...
Each issue of this series featured one original story, with the other stories being reprints from previously published Batman and Batman-related comic book series. The series continued in Batman 100-Page Giant (vol. 2) (see below). Red Hood: Outlaw #27 – 50 December 2018 December 2020 The series picked up from Red Hood and the Outlaws #26.