A man and a woman talk in a bar...

[espanolbot]

From Batman Confidential 7

It's some time ago in Gotham, and a depressed criminal gets chatting to an attractive blonde woman who is tending the bar,





Later, the guy sends her her college fund, anomymously, after he has a certain change of style...

title: batman confidential
creator: michael green
creator: denys cowan
creator: john floyd

Comments

[inexpediency]

Ha! Cute. I caught on right about at the "Mr. J" part.

[pyrotwilight]

So its Joker pre-crazy?

[fungo_squiggly]

I always really liked this scene.

Too bad this story started to suck pretty soon afterwards, and eventually turned so-bad-it's-hilarious with the infamous "Bunny!"-screaming Joker.

[nothingbutcake]

Haha, when the bartender first says "joker", I started wondering whether that word would actually fall out of use in Gotham simply due to the terror associated with it (though I don't really hear people use that word now).

But I guess that thought turned out to be irrelevant here.

[foxhack]

Was this series ever accepted as canon?

I mean, it makes a fine elseworlds-type story, but...

[zordboy]

"Not a funny guy, are you?" really gives the game away, doesn't it?

[tornadotwin.blogspot.com]

everything that everyone already said plus the facial features, the name jack and the purple and green backgrounds were nice clues as to who it was. i only caught on when blondie said 'mr. j'

[big_daddy_d]

How come no one ever told me about this issue before?! I WANT THIS ISSUE! :D

[lissa_quon]

Hah, nice story, though does that make the bartender Harley?

It fits but thats is a bit too much of a coicidence if it is.

[randyripoff]

Meh.

I'm sorry...the Joker has no history until he falls into the chemical tank...anything else is just idle speculation.

[equinox216]

Had it at "Not much to laugh about", confirmed at "Mr. J". There aren't a lot of humor-based individuals in Gotham, for some reason.

[stig]

This whole thing could only get more insultingly obvious if he was dealing a pack of cards while tucking into a cream pie.

[aaron_bourque]

Bluergh. Don't ever post Batman Confidential's take on the joker origin again.