, trades seen here JOKER and BATMAN year one, and one of them is over one hundred pages of story. So let get into this set of battles of which I can tell you that I really know the deep background of one these very well. Altogether this trade has seven stories that span from nineteen seventy three up to twenty sixteen, I'm going to give a brief summary of each tale with a couple of pictures of each one.
The first story is from BATMAN # 251 Sept. titled "THE JOKERS FIVE WAY REVENGE!" the story is by Denny O' Neal and art by Neil Adams. On the outskirts of Gotham city the police and commissioner Jim Gordon are looking at a murder suspect wondering who committed the violent crime in the first place and why? Gordon is wondering where THE BATMAN is, when he arrives he tells Jim that he has been there doing his own investigation work. He then shows them the give away clue
that it is his old foe known as Joker by the card he left at the scene. THE BATMAN then stars visiting Joker's various mob bosses he has worked with to find out that Joker has beaten him to finding each of them before BATMAN is there to help the poor saps. Except for the former forger Bing Hooley, whom was recently taken from a charity home by a Mister Genesius to Gotham's aquarium who is in turn really Joker and wants to kill two birds or rather foes with them being shark food. When Joker tosses both BATMAN and HOOLEY into the tank 
you for a moment as the reader realizes even if unintentionally that this reminds you of the BATMAN THE MOVIE from the campy live action series of the late nineteen sixties that starred Adam West as the hero, Batman and Cesar Romero as the clown prince of crime, the Joker. Need I say more... In the BATMAN'S DETECTIVE COMICS, #475 Feb. titled "THE LAUGHING FISH", story by Steve Englehart, penciler Marshall Rogers. We come to realize that like all heroes even BATMAN, has had his share of girl problems... and to top it off this girl seems to know his name 
hers by the way Ms St. Cloud. While swinging through Gotham's night and pondering it himself BATMAN'S attention is distracted by a call for help from a fish catcher who shows the detective a very odd set of fish. Meanwhile the Joker himself is in the bo office of Gotham wanting to trademark something and well I will let you see for yourselves ...
While at the same time Joker seem to be setting up a gains for himself among other mob bosses and his fellow foes of possession of learning BATMAN'S identity. One very cool things, I did find out while reading this one was the artists hid their names through out the story. The third story in this trade is the continuation from the last one. BATMAN'S DETECTIVE COMICS # 476 with the month Apr, the story is titled "SIGN OF THE JOKER!" Things are going crazy from the Joker's copyrighting of fish with his own face by affecting other animals. Whom seem to inherit the madness from the aquatic life as seen by this cat
named ERNEST. Who attacks BATMAN... which turns out isn't the real Batman but is ERNEST'S true master THOMAS JACKSON.Which we find out minutes later is a murder that Joker had promised from earlier in the night, in an unknown place. Once BATMAN has dealt with the Joker he sees Miss Cloud 
where she tells him her feelings for him after they share a kiss before she walks away from his life...maybe forever? This story showed a great multitude of foes of BATMAN that even I have never heard of and that was a very interesting surprise for me, it makes me smile when a comic can do that!
when I was attending my very first comic convention, it was also BATMAN'S fiftieth year anniversary so a lot stuff was going on that year even a upcoming feature film. "DEATH IN THE FAMILY" was written by Thanos co creator Jim Stalling with art by Jim Aparo. In the course of this story earlier parts BATMAN'S ward Jason Todd was the second Robin and comic fans loathed the character completely to the point of hate. In the previous issue the Joker killed Robin, at the end of the issue there were two one nine hundred numbers with BATMAN holding a bloodied Robin in his arms... In "a DEATH IN THE FAMILY", It finally seems as though the JOKER has bested BATMAN by taking away his partner of fighting crime against his foes by taking his ward Jason and blowing him and his mother up. That was in part at the end of issue 428, Dec. 1988. In this one BATMAN is out for no matter how you say it utter revenge no matter what, but the Joker has gone to great extremes to make it impossible. How you are asking? 
It is a C.I .A. agent by the name of Ralph Bundy, who tells BATMAN that the Joker has made himself an protected diplomat of Iran with that being the case no one but especially BATMAN can not lay a hand on him with out a international incident happening... like maybe world war III could be the final outcome if things were to result in Joker's favor! Even though Batman's hands are legally tied with dealing with the Joker he happens to get some help from the man of steel better known as by the Joker as 
"SUPERHAM!" in throwing a proverbial wrench into killink the Iranians delegates to start that hopeful war. Yes, the saddest part of this arc ends as Batman words describe it best of all between himself and the Joker... "UNRESOLVED."
In the next fight against these two comes from the "HUSH" storyline by writer Jeph Loeb and Image artist Jim Lee, in BATMAN # 614. With the story titled THE JOKE. It has BATMAN seen here
breaking all of his might on the clown of crime. While telling us the readers what the Joker's past history has lead to this very showdown! In the end it takes Jim Gordon's gun at Batman's noggin 
to make the dark knight remember his very own code of honor rule. Does BATMAN crossover to being a true villain for the first time ever? I'm not telling mainly because I really don't know but I know that I have said trade of this storyline from last Christmas and am now very much wanting to devour it into my comic loving brain is all I can say about this one!
" BATMAN:ENDGAME part six is by writer SCOTT SNYDER and another Image comics artist as penciler this time it's GREG CAPULLO in BATMAN # 40 from twenty fifteen. This tale has not only BATMAN but all of his other foes, battling Joker...
and the Joker have various peices to the very same computer virus and as well the same infectious disease. So to keep your pulse pounding and wanting to know how they get out this all you really know is that they have to work together to find out who is trying to kill both them and why? This last one really has me wanting to hunt down this very title in it's own individual iusses or the full BATMAN EUROPA trade! Soon I will have those other two trades having a posting real soon. I promise and love always the four color worlds of comics with joy in your souls.
