|
List Price: $19.99Amazon.com's Price: $13.59 You Save: $6.40 (32%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
Buy Now!
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401216221
ISBN: 1401216226
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: January 30, 2008
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Sales Rank: 10095
Studio: DC Comics
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Witness Batmans historic first encounters with his deadliest foe, The Joker, in this hardcover volume featuring two tales written by Ed Brubaker (GOTHAM CENTRAL, Captain America), winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Writer.A mysterious homicidal maniac is murdering prominent citizens of Gotham City, each time leaving a ghastly grin on the victims' lifeless faces. Batman soon tracks down the killer: The Joker!This volume gives readers new insight into the early encounters between Batman and The Joker that led the Clown Prince of Crime down the path to insanity.Guest-starring original Green Lantern Alan Scott.
Average Rating: 
Rating: -
I'm surprised that none of the reviewers seemed to recognize that this is a re-telling of one of the first Joker stories ever told. "Batman vs. The Joker" (Batman #1, 1940). In the original story The Joker kills the rich men to enforce a shakedown of other rich men. Here, his sociopathy is more apparent because he's killing for killing's sake. I like what they've done with it.
The bonus Alan Scott/Green Lantern story is truly great!
Rating:  -
I just want to point out that the reviewer Mr. McCarty is incorrect when he states that The Man Who Laughs is somehow derivative of Batman Begins. Batman Begins was written and filmed long after The Man Who Laughs was published.
Disregard his review of TMWL because of this fact. TMWL is a wonderfully written and illustrated tale of The Dark Knight and The Joker. Highly recommended and easily in the ranks of The Killing Joke and The Laughing Fish.
Rating: -
the joker is insane! it was cool getting to read the first encounter with batman. not as good as "the killing joke", but still awesome
Rating:  -
I am a bit surprised at the number of positive reviews that this story receives. Much of this can probably be attributed to Ed Brubaker's name being attached to it. This tale is supposed to be somewhat of an origin story for the Joker, but in this case that is due mainly to its' taking place in the early days of Batman's career than to any fresh new insight into his beginning. The plot is generic and the characterization is no different from anything that we have seen before. I admit that when you ... Read More
Rating:  -
Compared to Brubaker's output on Sleeper, Criminal, or even The Authority... I don't want to use the wrong adjective... mediocre. Agressively mediocre.
Television Show
Collectibles
Movie Searches
|
|
|
Search for posters,
art prints, photos, collectables, merchandise, toys, t-shirts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Join the Nielsen//NetRatings Research Panel and you could win a new car, a dream vacation, a dream home makeover or $50,000 Cash!
TV Guide
Program listings, celebrity profiles, industry
gossip, movie reviews, puzzle.
More
Entertainment
& TV Magazines
This site is
Hosted
by Bluehost
Read
my Bluehost Review
Original Superhero & other designs for t-shirts, bumper
stickers, prints, mugs, and other cool merchandise. |
|
