8 Comics Famous Comic Creators Don't Want You To Know About

8. Alan Moore (The Killing Joke)

Alan Moore is one of the best comic writers ever. He's known for V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell, but perhaps his most influential work is the Batman story, The Killing Joke.

In The Killing Joke, to prove anyone is one step away from madness and sociopathy the Joker abducts Barbara Gordon and shoots her in the spine. He takes pictures of her naked and sexually assaults her. He does this to drive her father, Commissioner Gordon, mad and Barbara later ends up as Oracle, a wheelchair-bound computer genius, which led to others becoming Batgirl. It's considered the landmark Batman book.

But Alan Moore hates this book.

He doesn't think it's good - even for a superhero comic, something he also hates. He hates a lot of his old superhero work, thinking it amateurish, and bearing a grudge as he doesn't own the rights to it, but The Killing Joke - with its misogyny and wide-spread influence - is top amongst his most hated. He's said that he thinks the editors should have reigned him in, but none did.

And now the Joker as a rapist is a thing that is forever DC canon.