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# The Joker: The Clown Prince of Crime

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## Customer Reviews

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    A worthwhile collection for Joker fans, despite its flaws
  

*by L***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 5, 2018*

What makes "The Joker: The Clown Prince of Crime" interesting is that it features a Joker who's been badly watered down by the dictates of the Comics Code Authority.This trade paperback collects all nine issues of the Joker's short-lived ongoing series, which DC published bimonthly from May 1975-October 1976. The standalone stories were created by rotating teams, including three writers (Denny O'Neil, Elliot S! Maggin, and Martin Pasko), three pencillers (Batman regulars Ernie Chua and Irv Novick, and-praise be his name-Jose Luis Garcia Lopez), and five inkers (Garcia-Lopez, Dick Giordano, Justice League of America regular Frank McLaughlin, Tex Blaisdell and Vince Colletta-the latter two taking time off from wrecking Curt Swan's pencils in the Superman stories of the period). Yet with 10 creators involved, all the stories feel and look as if the same writer/artist team told them.None of them add dimension to the Joker as a character or expand upon his multifaceted relationship of rivalry, obsession, hatred, and love with the Batman. In fact, the Caped Crusader was apparently off-limits to the creators; he doesn't appear in any of the stories, and is mentioned only once in the first story, as being away from Gotham City on Interpol business.And therein lies one of the problems with a Joker solo series; while many entertaining Batman stories have been told without the Joker, the Joker isn't fully and truly alive without Batman as his adversary. So with Batman seemingly off-limits, O'Neil, Maggin and Pasko are forced into telling mostly comedic tales about their protagonist either trying to outdo other villains, including rival Bat-rogues Two-Face and Scarecrow, as well as Superman arch-foe Lex Luthor-or torment lesser superheroes, including Green Arrow and The Creeper.The other problem, as noted above, is the Comics Code Authority. The writers try their best to have the Joker do ghastly things-we see a flame thrower disguised cleverly as a cigarette lighter, acid-filled meringue pies, and a "snake nut can" with a snake that strangles the unfortunate prankee-but the CCA's requirement that criminals had to be punished for their actions every time meant that none of the Joker's schemes could ever work, and that every tale had to end with Joker either confined to Arkham Asylum again or in the process of being arrested. It also forced Joker to challenge either fellow fiends or other heroes with madcap pranks, instead of pushing them to their limits.  He had to be the goofy prankster of the 1950s Batman comics rather than the psychopath with the warped, sadistic sense of humor that O'Neil had recently restored to Batman's universe.Clearly, the Joker couldn't thrive when these stories were first published because their scope had to be limited. But, the appeal of retro comics aside, "The Joker: The Clown Prince of Crime" is worthwhile for two reasons. First, it is an important step in the Joker's transition from demented funster back to his darker roots as a criminal mastermind/homicidal maniac. Second, it lays the groundwork for later, better villain-led series, including DC's own "Secret Society of Super-Villains" and "Suicide Squad"-the latter, of course, featuring Harley Quinn, the Joker's ex-psychiatrist/romantic interest/villainous sidekick.

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    Fun from the mid 1970s
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2021*

Having owned and read about half of these from 1975 and 1976  I have fond memories of this offbeat series in which the Joker is the protagonist while still being a deranged criminal and killer. As this was the during the time DC was subject to the Comics Code many times Joker had to end up being back behind bars at the end of the different stories. Still this is good for the fun and nostalgia when stories were resolved in single issues.

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    Okay,it was a short-lived series,but still.....!
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2014*

Before he rose from simply being the archenemy of Batman to becoming one of the most formidable villains in the universe of DC comics,the Joker was given his own comic in 1975 (In fact,I believe he's still the only lone comic book supervillain to achieve this). With the Caped Crusader notably absent from its pages,it told the monthly adventures of the Clown Prince Of Crime going about his trademark criminal schemes,often crossing paths with another DC villain,one of their many masked heroes,and...in one particular issue...a stage actor who somehow came to believe he was Sherlock Holmes.This is the "Bronze Age" Joker,after being given his insanity and murderous edge by the likes of Dennis O'Neal and Neal Adams the year before,but still retaining the outrageousness of a clown/practical joker.Unfortunately,the Comics Code Authority was still enforced at the time,insisting that each story end with the Joker once again apprehended and locked up in Arkham Asylum,the high-security where most of Batman's rogues gallery are incarcerated (and also seem to escape from with regularity).Due to this limitation,the series never found an audience,and was cancelled after its ninth issue...which means readers never got to see the Joker/Justice League clash that was to follow in issue #10.Nonetheless,this is a fascinating,rarely-seen chapter in the history of the Clown Prince Of Crime,and this volume collects all nine issues,featuring artwork from the likes of Irv Novick,Dick Giordano,Jose' Luis Garcia-Lopez and many more.This book will definitely satisfy all lovers of classic superhero comics.

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