The Joker #10

[cyberghostface]

Earlier this year I posted Joker's solo series which ran for nine issues. There was also a tenth issue that was completed but never published. Four decades later it was included in The Joker: The Bronze Age Omnibus. Fortunately for those not wanting to pay sixty dollars just to get one issue DC recently released the issue on digital format for $1.99. So without further ado...












 

On a related note the Joker just knocked Deadpool off the spot for the biggest R-rated movie ever.

Comments

[speedingtortoise]

Holy shit. I came in here expecting wacky PG rated Joker antics, and it ends with him hanging Wonder Woman with her own lasso. Sometimes I forget that the older stuff could get pretty dark too.

[janegray]

Oddly enough, my reaction was more like "oh, they killed a female character and it wasn't graphic at all, it was offscreen even, and about as fast and non-sexualized as it can be. Nice."

I mean, I'm not even talking about modern stuff. Even 20 years ago, when Jason was Robin, there was a story about an incel serial killer who assaulted women, dragged them away and dismembered them, then threw their graphically mutilated bodies in a dumpster.

Or, off the top of my head, Artemis's death. They stripped off the cloth over her breast and crotch and posed her like a pin-up model.

https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/11132/111329300/6576087-1762819-artemis_death.jpg

You really gotta go this far back for a "clean" kill.

[hotfoot]

Wasn't Jason Todd killed in 1988? That's...way further back than I thought this trend started. Yikes.

[kurenai_tenka]

Sort of... between 88/89 depending which issue you consider him to have 'died' in.

That story was shortly before that, so probably 88 too? Or 87.

[bravest_spinja]

I think nothing exemplifies the "artists are artists and writers are writers" joke about comics like having the Devil appear as Elton John and sound like Vegas lounge lizard.

[icon_uk]

So the Joker basically does a "Tower of Babel" set up with him instead of Batman?

Though I do wish they'd maybe taken advantage of the intervening 40 years to maybe NOT mis-reference schizophrenia like thatl

[lego_joker]

Judging by the cover, I'm guessing Maggin couldn't find room to squeeze Superman into this story? Shame.