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Issue: Batman: The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 2016

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Variant: Eighteenth Printing

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics

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Volume: none

Pages: 72

ISBN: 9781401216672

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Price: $20.99 CAD
$17.99 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Jeb Woodard (group editor)

Notes: Tenth printing available October 3, 2012; eleventh printing available December 12, 2012; twelfth printing available August 21, 2103; thirteenth printing available April 9, 2014; fifteenth printing available April 1, 2015; seventeenth printing available March 2, 2016; nineteenth printing available August 31, 2016; and twentieth printing available January 9, 2019 (per comiclist.com).

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Format

Publication Type: Hardcover

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US; 7¼ in. × 11⅛ in.

Paper Stock: coated stock

Binding: hardcover

Publishing Format: collected edition

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3 Batman: The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition #[nn] [unnamed variant]

Batman: The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition #[nn] [Eighteenth Printing]

Batman: The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition #[nn] [eleventh printing]

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Content Items (8 total)

[untitled]

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Joker

First Line: Smile!

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Notes: The front cover portion of the dust jacket.

[untitled]

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Joker

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Pages: 3

Notes: Image is from story’s last page, fifth panel. A green-toned image has been documented; the printing on which this image appeared is unknown. The eleventh printing displays a foil-debossed, purple image. The eighteenth printing’s cover is black, and the image is debossed without foil or added color.

Introduction

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First Line: Man, how cool is this?

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Batman: The Killing Joke

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Batman; Commissioner Gordon; Barbara Gordon [Batgirl]; Harvey Bullock; Alfred Pennyworth; Joker (also as the Red Hood in flashback); Two-Face (cameo); Penguin (cameo)

First Line: There were these two guys in a lunatic asylum...

Synopsis: Batman visits the Joker in Arkham Asylum only to discover he has been replaced by a double. As Batman attempts to track the villain down, the Joker shows up at the house of Commissioner Gordon where he promptly shoots Barbara and captures her father. The Joker takes Jim to a modified carnival where he tries to drive him mad (partially by showing him pictures of his naked and bleeding daughter). Batman arrives and starts beating on the Joker who attempts to reason with him in his own insane fashion. As things wrap up and the police arrive, the Joker finally tells Batman a joke that he gets.

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Notes: Story tells a comprehensive origin of the Joker based on the story “The Man behind the Red Hood” from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #168. The story remains controversial for the crippling of Barbara Gordon.

Originally colored by John Higgins, art for this edition was recolored and reconstructed by Brian Bolland.

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An Innocent Guy

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Two-Face (cameo); Penguin (cameo); Poison Ivy (cameo); The Terrible Trio [The Fox; The Shark; The Vulture] (cameo)

First Line: I don't consider myself a bad person.

Synopsis: A young man dreams of a plot to kill The Batman.

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From the Files of Brian Bolland

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Biographies

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