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Issue: DC Comics - The Legend of Batman #34
Publication Date: January 2019
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Issues: #34 of 37 Issues
Title: The Man Who Laughs and The Killing Joke
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEaglemoss Publications
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Indicia Publisher: Eaglemoss France
On Sale Date: 04/03/2019
Volume: 34
Pages: 144
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 977251498221934
Price: €15,99 EUR (EU)
£10.99 GBP
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Content Items: 9 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Mead (sub-editor)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Color
Dimensions: 17.5cm x 26.5cm
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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The One Will Kill You ...

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Synopsis: Article looking at the background to the stories from a creative standpoint.
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Rise of the Bat

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Synopsis: Article putting the stories into the wider Batman continuity.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Joker
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The Man Who Laughs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman; Joker; James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Jack Grogan
First Line: I get to the scene a little after four A.M., just as they're bringing out the first body...
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Pages: 64
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Genres: superhero
First Line: Smile
Synopsis: Trade dress and text removed from cover as originally presented.
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Batman: The Killing Joke

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jeannie (flashback); Mrs. Burkiss (flashback)
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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Pages: 46
Disclose 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.

The "joke" is a gag that can be traced back in the comics of DC at least as far as Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 series) #6 (Fall 1942) in which Mutt suggests that Jeff climb up a spotlight beam. Jeff refuses, worried that the spotlight will be turned off and he'll fall. Possibly not the first or only time the joke's been told.

Bob Kane's signature appears in the photograph from page 10.
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The Killing Joke: The Cover Story

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Synopsis: Article covering Brian Bolland's process in the creation of the cover to the Killing Joke. Includes photographs used as reference as well as the original pencil sketch. The colouring process used by John Higgins on the graphic novel is also outlined as are copies of a page of original artwork in both pencils and the inked formats.
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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.
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Pages: 8
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