10 Comic Book Characters The Joker Has Killed
3. Daniel Dickerson
Gotham City mayors are rarely any good, nor do they live very long, so the surprise and tears shed were minimal when the Joker successfully assassinated Daniel Dickerson in an issue of the police procedural spinoff comic Gotham Central.
Dickerson took up office in the wake of the No Man's Land event and failed miserably when it came to empathising with Gotham's citizens and their frustration at being abandoned by the government for more than a year.
His death came three years on from his introduction, the cause being a sniper bullet in issue #12 of Gotham Central, a single shot which cut short an argument between the politician and Commissioner Akins about police overtime.
The Joker wound up being the perpetrator, and it was all part of an extended killing spree he went on over the course of four issues before Maggie Sawyer subdued the villain by shooting him muliple times.